spacecoast wrote:
Great video (again) Bill. The Fist of Guanto segment is pretty cool too... really enjoyed that "Archimedes Screw". It's a little hard to catch, but if you study it the right gun SPINS forward and the left backward! I'm thinking there's some kind of weight shift offset that might make it easier than both forward or backward from a stationary start, eh?
Thanks Spacecoast, glad you liked it. But that particular draw wasn't the "Archimedes Screw" draw (Archimedes screw draw is the same as my draw). The actor's name I taught my draw to is "Brahm". His "Fist of Guanto movie character's name is Archimedes from Syracuse. I know....it sounds like a Greek name and city from an old Hercules movie. ("Great Hera! Please help us Odysseus, Archimedes and Hercules, the Minotaur is attacking the people of Syracuse!" Lol).
Brahm did my butt forward from the holster draw, in a screen test video and decided to call it the "Archimedes Screw" draw,.... playing on the name of his movie character and the famous Greek engineer Archimedes, (who's famous screw was used to draw water uphill). Months ago he sent me a link to the screen test video of him doing my draw, but I don't think it's up anymore.
There's not really a weight shift involved with Brahm spinning one revolver forward and the other rearward at the same time. What is involved is a bit of split concentration to do both at the same time, since one hand's finger will be rotating in one direction, and the other hand's finger will be rotating in the opposite direction. Awkward at first, but easier once one gets used to it. Easier and quicker for him too with those '73's short barrels (less weight, less inertia and a shorter overall rotational distance due to those shorter barrels) compared to my '60's 8 inch barreled ones.
What is involved is if you want to spin rearward, you push your spinning finger/hand forwardly and then upward, exerting pressure of your finger forwardly against the inside of the trigger guard. If you want to spin forward, you pull your finger/hand rearward and then upward, exerting pressure rearwardly against the inside of the trigger guard.
Watch my longest segment of slow motion spinning towards the end of my video. Notice I spin rearward and also forward. Notice the motion of my hand and finger. For
forward spinning my finger exerts
rearward and upward pressure, in a somewhat circular cranking movement.
For
rearward spinning my finger exerts
forward and upward pressure, and the same somewhat circular cranking rotational movement, ....only in the opposite direction. Both are a somewhat rotational almost "cranking" type movement,....only in opposite directions. My slow motion spinning really allows you to see the difference, which really is just my finger rotating in opposite directions.
4V50 Gary
Staff wrote:
That's a pretty neat draw! Pull, flip, grip, bang!
Thanks Gary, glad you like it. I developed it in the early 1980's. Around '81 or '82.
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