My friend Ivan sent this to me and I thought it was worth a share.
The Journey to the Other Strong Side…
About a year ago I decided to invest in training my Other Strong Side. So, being right handed and right eye dominant, I spent a lot of time working my left hand and left eye. Taking a number of pistol and carbine courses over the span of a year. From Urban Rifle down at Thunder Ranch, to a Night Fighter class with Chuck Pressburg, to a Limited Signature Course with Ian at Runenation and some training with Bill Rapier of AMTAC Shooting.
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I’ve been following along with KitBadger’s videos on his “Other strong side” journey and it’s looked painful, so good on him for sticking with it but I always thing back to what I saw in this video from 1911 Syndicate where retired Delta Force operator Jason Beighley at the 9:02 mark discusses “Other strong side” shooting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOlVTNqoNeY
Interesting, Kyle lamb who is a fan of swopping shoulders said Delta took it on after the black hawk down battle
There was another unit guy that I remember saying after Mogadishu “If I could have trained one thing before that battle it was support side rifle shooting”. Escapes me who it was but I’ve read his account of that deficiency in multiple interviews.
I believe the guy I was referencing was mainly speaking in terms of holding hard corners on the non dominant side, not for doing CQB.