The Gas Pedal® Assist is a powerful tool for building your pistol grip technique using the OPP (Opposable) Grip… a stabilizing method that improves accuracy, control, and confidence.

Whether you’re shooting for self-defense, competition, or professional duty, the principles and goals are the same: better control, faster follow-up shots, more hits on target, and above all else, confidence.

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How It Works:  

The Gas Pedal ® is easy to use:

• Index your off-hand thumb on the pedal first.
• Squeeze firmly with your off-hand fingers.
• Keep your trigger-hand relaxed.

Where your palms end up doesn’t matter, they will naturally find the right position. Just make sure to apply thumb pressure toward the bore, not downward. Trying to use the Gas Pedal® Assist with a traditional thumbs-forward or neutral grip won’t give you optimal results.

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What is the OPP Grip? 

The Gas Pedal© Assist CG (Carry Gun) uses our patented OPP Wing© technology. It’s a multi-axis grip surface designed to guide your strongest hand muscles into a high-leverage position. It guides the strong muscles of your arms and hands to hold the pistol in a much more stable way, channeling pressure efficiently to create a more stable and accurate shooting platform. (Say goodbye to jerky, off-target shots.)

This is the same technique that dominates USPSA Open Class pistol competition, winning nearly every major event—and it’s winning in 2024 Production division too. As gunsmith Benny Hill says:

“Winning don’t lie.”

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Why the OPP Grip Works, and why the Gas Pedal© Assist is not “just a thumb rest”.

Traditional neutral grips leave your off-hand thumb doing almost nothing and force the wrist into a weak camming angle that reduces usable hand strength by up to 70%.

The OPP Grip fixes that. It transforms your off-hand into a true control mechanism, adding leverage across all four axes of recoil:

• Impulse – Backward recoil
• Flip – Upward muzzle rise
• Windage – Side-to-side movement (jerked or pulled shots)
• Rotation – Twisting around the bore axis

And it works with any stance or arm position.

Simple thumb rests promoted as “reducing muzzle flip” are only addressing one out of the four axes of recoil… and honestly, the least important one. 

With the Gas Pedal© Assist putting your hands into the OPP Grip position, common shooting issues fix themselves because you’re managing recoil in every direction.

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Want to dive deep into the science of grip control? We've got all the diagrams and in-depth explanation you could want on our deep dive page.