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    Pistol Grips

    What are the advantages of a pistol grip?

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    I think you're in the wrong forum, but isnt it obvisious? They allow you to shoot your opponent!
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    yep wrong forum. short answer, though, is that they give you the most power of the grips.

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    Agree wrong forum, but also wrong answer. If you compare with a French yes, Italian no. The pistol grip was a compromise between the 2. French was more for speed and Italian for strength. Each type of grip works to combine the 2 in a different way.
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    The vast majority of us use pistol grip nowadays. But I still occasionally use a french grip in practice to correct the bad things I learned using a pistol grip such as exuberant flicking.
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