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The pressure should be in the 50% to 50% range to start. The thumbs should exert no lateral pressure on the pistol, but they will, by virtue of their curled nature, assist with recoil management and limit the vertical rotation of the muzzle.

The Thumbs Forward Grip.

Another view of the Thumbs Forward Grip.

Left side view of the Thumbs Forward Grip.

Bottom view of the Thumbs Forward Grip.

The IPSC/Thumbs Forward Grip

The grip system that is all the rage these days is the IPSC or Thumbs Forward Grip. It involves cradling the weapon in both hands with the thumbs distinctly pointing toward the target and resting along the left side of the gun. By virtue of its name, it is purely a competition grip system, designed by Brian Enos and Rob Leatham in the 1980s and used exclusively by the IPSC and IDPA competitors for many years. Law enforcement and the military have adopted it for certain units with good success.

Recently, Todd Jarrett and Para Ordnance have embarked on a marketing campaign to sell this grip to the general shooting public, en masse, as a one-size-fits-all grip system. I personally feel that school is still out on this issue. The Thumbs Forward grip remains a competition-style grip designed by a competition shooter for competition shooters and is not well-suited for defensive handgun purposes. It is a complex system, very finicky and delicate and hard to master. It has varying pressure points on both axes (X and Y) that the shooter has to learn and engrain in order for the system to be effective for him.