{"id":7948,"date":"2011-01-04T22:51:32","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T04:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=7948"},"modified":"2013-08-11T13:00:04","modified_gmt":"2013-08-11T18:00:04","slug":"armed-response-your-support-hand-and-the-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/armed-response-your-support-hand-and-the-draw\/7948\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed Response: Your Support Hand and the Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/armedresponse2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7954\" title=\"armedresponse2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/armedresponse2-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/armedresponse2-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/armedresponse2.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Most street encounters happen at very close distances. This is something you need to have in mind when practicing self defense scenarios with a handgun. In close encounters, your support hand might have to be used for other things than supporting the gun and you need to practice accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>This series is produced for DRTV by Ralph Mroz and David Kenik.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to discuss the tips on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/forum\/index.php?topic=15108.0\" target=\"_self\">the forum<\/a> and below on this page.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/6eFMJC\/RqqFgTxaLX4a\/embed\/select\/iMvVbWGQj138&amp;autoPlay=true\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Ralph Mroz and David Kenik are the people behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armedresponsetraining.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Armed Response DVD series<\/a>.  These video programs avoid both the simplistic advice that is too often given for armed self-defense, and on the other end of the spectrum, the over-macho &#8220;high-speed&#8221; &#8220;tactical&#8221; advice that is also both unrealistic and too prevalent.  Instead the focus is on what is realistically possible for most people to do in these extreme circumstances.  Mroz was a police officer for almost 20 years, most recently assigned to his county&#8217;s drug task force; Kenik is the firearms instructor for the Lake Arthur, NM police department.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.armedresponsetraining.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7890\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" title=\"armedresponsedvds\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/armedresponsedvds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"99\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/armedresponsedvds.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/armedresponsedvds-300x59.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most street encounters happen at very close distances. This is something you need to have in mind when practicing self defense scenarios with a handgun. In close encounters, your support hand might have to be used for other things than supporting the gun and you need to practice accordingly. This series is produced for DRTV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":7954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1352,1],"tags":[1354,1356,1355,3612],"class_list":["post-7948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armed-response-tips","category-featured","tag-armed-response","tag-david-kenik","tag-ralph-mroz","tag-shooting-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}