I changed my stance and immediately hated it, it was more forward lean than I was used to and weight pushed onto the balls of my feet. A slightly wider base than I’d ever naturally choose. Everything about it felt overly aggressive, like I was trying to become a different kind of shooter than I thought I was. My biggest issue wasn’t even performance at first. It was identity. I had this idea of myself as a relaxed, smooth shooter and this stance felt like the opposite of that.
So I kept second guessing it every time I ran drills then something funny happened around the two week mark. The recoil started to feel easier to manage, transitions got cleaner without me forcing them. I stopped fighting the gun as much and started just letting the stance do what it was supposed to do.
At some point I realized I wasn’t trying the stance anymore. I was just using it and that’s when it clicked. It didn’t matter how it felt at the start. It mattered how it performed when things got fast and messy. I stopped arguing with it after that.
So I kept second guessing it every time I ran drills then something funny happened around the two week mark. The recoil started to feel easier to manage, transitions got cleaner without me forcing them. I stopped fighting the gun as much and started just letting the stance do what it was supposed to do.
At some point I realized I wasn’t trying the stance anymore. I was just using it and that’s when it clicked. It didn’t matter how it felt at the start. It mattered how it performed when things got fast and messy. I stopped arguing with it after that.
