jenb
* Ace Member *
When you're shooting you exhale before you pull the trigger to calm your heart rate down, and so you aren't expanding your lungs and moving while you're pulling the trigger. With DG, you're exhaling AS you're throwing instead of before, to exert more force on the throw.
I was taught to exhale and hold my breath while slowly squeezing the trigger for target shooting. When the gun goes off, it should come as a surprise. If you can predict exactly when the round will fire, you squeezed too quickly. Or so I was taught, anyway.
But I know a military sniper who said they were trained to exhale on the trigger pull because they don't have long to pull the trigger. And they know exactly when it's going off because they can't take their time. The target is stationary for three seconds and you go, just pulling the trigger straight back. You can't be holding your breath every time the target comes to rest, hoping it will last more than 3 seconds.
So even in shooting, I guess the exhale can be on the trigger pull.