The “Push and Pull” action works to tame recoil. The Weaver Stance is a natural “fighting” stance as used in boxing and martial arts. My stance is bladed (one foot forward of the other) and I don’t lock either of my arms straight. Also the way to go should you follow the trend to optical sights on your handguns. Tactical Police Competition showed me that the flexed elbows and a vertical lift to eye level is much faster than the bowling for dollars rotation of extended arms and less likely to be blocked. Recoil control seems marginally better than with the arms locked out.

Doesn’t seem to matter much if you’re flexing vertically or horizontally, either work. When you can’t get your hands together with locked out arms, the best solution seems to be flexing the elbows. The arrival of heavier rated hard armor caused me to alter the isosceles slightly. As you’ve noted, sometimes you have to adapt to physical abilities or your tactical situation. I taught-and still do- a lot of isosceles after we abandoned Weaver, but included isometric tension in the stance. The advent of soft body armor also caused a lot conversions to isosceles as it maximized the protection. One doesn’t always have 2 hands available to dedicate to the gun. That would seem to make practicing strictly 2 handed shooting problematic. I’m not sure if it was you who published the results of the OPOTA video reviews, but the use of the isosceles turned out to overpower the Weaver they taught in training in their shoot house tactical exercise.

Isosceles stance