For bend in the elbows I like to use this illustration.
Walk up to a wall about arms length away(fingertips on the wall), put you feet in the "square-range shooting stance",lay your palms on the wall with you fingers feathered out, and push like you want the wall to fall over you should take care to have a relatively vertical back.
Now, at this distance you will find that you bend at the knees and dig your toes into the floor to stabilize when you push. This is not the important part but helps you to know what to do to get the upper body in position.
What you should notice is that you have some bend in your arms and your BACK is exerting between the shoulder blades(although this may be in fact the shoulder muscles, I simply dont know I'm not a physical therypist). Now, without moving out of position put your hands in the IPSC grip while keeping the arms in the same position and press against the wall while stretching the offhand thumb getting that tight forearm that controls recoil.
This is how I try and teach people the modern grip. It is worth noting that many people stop teaching the grip at the elbows but your shoulders, between the shoulders, and chest will all help to correct posture and reduce recoil. I also always make it a point to get whoever I am teaching away from the wall and show them that they can keep that upperbody firmness without the lowerbody in any perticular position and have almost 180 degrees of rotation between the upper body and lower body. This of course helps with shooting on the move and is another discussion.
I hope I wrote that in a manner than can be understood. Both my writing incompetence and my inability to put thoughts on paper make internet discussion difficult.
You can never make anyting idiot-proof, whenever you get close they just build a better idiot.
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