AAR: CTT Solutions (Mike Pannone) Covert Carry Bethlehem, PA 7/26-27/14

[Blaster229]

Not to derail, but why do you like the "workspace" concept?

Easier control and manipulation. And because anything else is flat out awkward. Have you tried it?
I say workspace because that was the only "term" I guess to say other than "closer to your face".
The farther out your weapon is, the more clumsy you are fumbling trying to get the mag up in the well. Also if you are changing a mag in a confined space out from behind cover, you're not offering it up.
Let's say you have a malfunction, where will you work on it? Closer in where you can see an issue or still extended out?
Learning one place for everything is the most simple habit I think.
That's why I like it.

 

[ProShooter]

Easier control and manipulation. And because anything else is flat out awkward. Have you tried it?
I say workspace because that was the only "term" I guess to say other than "closer to your face".
The farther out your weapon is, the more clumsy you are fumbling trying to get the mag up in the well. Also if you are changing a mag in a confined space out from behind cover, you're not offering it up.
Let's say you have a malfunction, where will you work on it? Closer in where you can see an issue or still extended out?
Learning one place for everything is the most simple habit I think.
That's why I like it.

I'm familiar with the workspace idea...even to the point of seeing some teach students to look through the trigger guard at their attacker while reloading or clearings malfs.

I'm more of a chest-high, compressed ready mindset. I feel like you shouldn't really need to look at your gun. Its a simple set of controls and you know where they are. Keep the gun pointed at the target, with a slight upward magwell cant to allow the smooth mag change/slide rack, and thus punch the gun back out to your target while maintaining a solid, crouched Iso stance.

I agree that keeping it in close is much more beneficial, I just don't like the loss of the "having your gun pointed where it needs to be" idea that is lost with the workspace concept.

Just my .02

 

[Blaster229]

Yeah well I too think the look-through-the-trigger-guard concept is ridiculous and pretty much impossible.
Getting it at least up into and "working" in your periphery instead of changing at the high ready, you are already pressing out to the threat with a sight alignment, as opposed to "coming up" to your sight alignment from the chest area.
I just prefer to keep my work along that sight alignment longitudinal axis as much as possible.

 

[hogarth]

Mike taught us the workspace thing as well. His teaching was to basically turn our palm up, which beings the elbow down and the gun right to where you typically do things like dialing your phone, etc. Your body will know where it goes, so that's where you should bring it. Release the mag while accessing the spare, insert, slide release, aim.

 

[Blaster229]

Mike taught us the workspace thing as well. His teaching was to basically turn our palm up, which beings the elbow down and the gun right to where you typically do things like dialing your phone, etc. Your body will know where it goes, so that's where you should bring it. Release the mag while accessing the spare, insert, slide release, aim.

I wonder how I know this. :-)