Support hand slipping

This is a great topic, and I want to post more on it later.

This may sound weird but I was experiencing this and I found that I needed to keep the oil and sweat off my hands. I was shooting at a range with poor AC and after I started to sweat a little bit my non shooting hand was slipping off my shooting hand. I was using my shirt to wipe off both hands.

Now I make sure I wash my hands thouroughly before going shoting and I bring some alcohol wipes with me and a towel. If my hands are getting oily (not from gun oil but just from my skin secreting oil) I wipe them down with an alcohol towellete and then dry with a towel.
 
The OP's hand placement looks good, however, the proper way to use the two handed grip is that the weak hand, not the shooting hand is what is holding the pistol. You should be able to move the heal of your shooting hand away from the pistol and still have a good grip on it.
 
I had a regular exercise regimin that was cycling, pushups/situps, leg lifts - the usual stuff. When I picked up a Glock 34 I had a lot of trouble shooting it so, I now have a regular exercise regimin designed to strengthen my grip and be able to hold that Glock out there steady. I do running and cycling when I have time but my exercise regimin now is:

Hammer curls:

http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/Brachioradialis/DBHammerCurl.html

Ulnar dumbell:

http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/WristFlexors/DBUlnarFlexion.html

Wrist curl:

http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/WristFlexors/DBWristCurl.html

Reverse wrist curl:

http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/WristExtensors/DBReverseWristCurl.html

Crush grip:

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Wrist roller:

http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/WristExtensors/CBRollerWristExtention.html

And I also work out with these things called Meridian Balls or Bao Ding balls. I have some large carbon steel balls that are pretty heavy - somewhere around 1.25 lbs each. The idea is to rotate them clockwise and then counter clock wise in your hand without the balls touching.

The guy in this video makes it look easy, but it's not. And when I do this 200 times with 1¼ lb steel balls - all the tiny muscles in my hands are sore - which is a sign that they are getting worked out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-bGPcdL4nU&feature=related

I notice all these things are increasing my forearm, wrist and finger strength and it is paying off with more accurate shooting. I noticed an improvement in my dry firing follow through in about 2 weeks.
 
Also - when I just do hammer curls - I really don't feel anything in my forearms - it's mostly my biceps doing the work. So I save my hammer curls for last in my workout. When I do that, my forarms feel like they're on fire when I'm doing the hammer curls. So anyway I think my forearms are getting more out of it if I do my hammer curls last, but that's just me...
 
I watched a YouTube video from someone called The Shooting Coach and he is teaching a firm grip with the shooting hand but no tension.

I tried doing that - just a frim grip, and my dry firing follow through was not good. When I did that, the front site would take a dive to the right. The only way that I know of to have good follow-through is to have my shooting arm push forward a little bit and to pull back a little bit with my non-firing hand. When I do that, my site picture doesn't change after the trigger breaks (most times).

It's difficult for me to have both my thumbs pointing forward. Maybe if I had started out shooting that way it would work, but it is difficult for me now and it seems hardchange it. My non-shooting thumb has to curl down and be touching the trigger gaurd. This works perfectly for me on my HK P7M8 but it doesn't work well with a Glock.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do with this yet... maybe try some more shooting with the thumbs pointing paralell, or maybe just try to find a better spot on the trigger gaurd for my non shooting thumb.
 
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