Limp Wrist

[nailer]

Can someone please describe / explain what that means?

[streaker69]

A semi-auto pistol needs a firm wrist to recoil against. If your wrist isn't firm/strong enough when the pistol cycles it could potentially jam/stovepipe.

[Cuba]

Easy same as being loose in your loafers

[Dogpupkus]

Can someone please describe / explain what that means?

Holding a semi-auto pistol too low on the grip. From recoil, it forces your wrist upwards improperly ejecting a spent casing, often getting stuck in the ejection port or hitting you in the face!

Holding your pistol as high as possible on the grip and keeping your wrist firm without letting it give in to recoil eliminate limp-wrist.

[Noah_Zark]

Short version: Wrist not locked.

Noah

[streaker69]

I do not recommend looking through google images for "limp wrist", unless you're into that kind of thing.

[Genin]

limp wrist is also the term used commonly at Glock Talk by fanboys to describe the mechanical manufacturing problems with Gen 4 Glocks that cause malfunctions.

I'll even use it in a sentence for you:
It's not your Gen4 Glock's problem that it has erratic ejection or stove pipes, you must be limp wristing.

[ar15jules]

I'll give you a more technical answer. Your pistol needs a stable platform to allow the slide to forcefully operate fully to the rear upon recoil. A forceful operation to the rear ensures proper extraction of the spent case from the chamber, proper ejection out of the ejection port, and assuming you have a good recoil spring/assembly, proper stripping of a fresh round from the magazine, loading up the ramp and into the chamber, and having the slide move all the way forward into battery. There are a lot of things that happen.

Unlocking
Extraction
Ejection
Stripping new round
Feeding new round
Lock up

When someone allows their wrist to break upward with recoil, energy that is needed for all of the things above to happen correctly gets absorbed by your wrist moving. Not really a technical answer, but a little more detailed.
Jules

[itsmyright]

[Twoboxer]

In order to eject the spent casing and load a new one, the slide must move backwards relative to the pistol frame.

If the pistol is not held securely when its fired, both the slide AND the frame will move backwards in recoil. The slide will NOT move back far enough relative to the frame to eject and load.

Although there are a couple of causes, when this happens on the range its most often because the grip was not firm enough . . . wrist not locked. Thus "limp wrist".