It isn't a grab, it is sweeping the gun aside. Cruise's movement actually follows the natural movement of his body. It is twisting clockwise to sweep and draw his gun, then releasing counter-clockwise to bring the muzzle to bear
But you don't have control. You really don't want to be fighting with someone over control of a gun on his hand. Having a hold/grip is a false sense of control. If you tighten your grip, you are at a stand-off and he has as much control as you do.
You are the aggressor as soon as you sweep the first guy's gun out of your face...he is the primary threat. The other guy doesn't have his gun out yet and is now reacting to your action. He needs to first identify what is happening, decide on a course of action, implement it, identify his target, gain a sight picture and trigger the shot. In that time, you've finished with the first guy and can engage the second.
I'm going to hazard a guess that much of your training has been in the hard styles as opposed to the soft ones
My actual dojo training was at a Kenpo dojo in Kansas City, Mo. on Broadway in the early '80s. I think it's still there. The single best piece of knowledge that I learned there was that, all things being equal or unequal the
smart fighter will win. This is after having my but handed to me by older, slower, more experienced and even female opponents. I haven't touched a body bag since probably around 1990. These days I am mostly just
'ghost dancing' in the basement. Yah, I could certainly use some shivworks or similar FOF training but so far it doesn't seem to show up in my budget. But for now, at least, my sidearm work is incorporated into my self defense repertoire from whatever I have gleaned over the years from various sources including books, videos, workshops and tips from friends and acquaintances and GASP!
the Internet!
. I remain the judge as to weather this information can be a useful addition to my repertoire, to my philosophy of self-defense.
Now back to the video commentary. Yes, Mr. 9mm I do not
want to be in a fight for control of somebody else's weapon but within a circumstance where SA and evasion has failed, or when evasion is not an option because I must choose to defend the mine part of
me and mine, I will reserve, in accordance with what is good, proper, and just, the option of taking control of the arm that wields the weapon against us.