Being able to shift your hips in motion is critical when it comes to moving to the rear with agility, maintaining balance, and having the ability to change direction and/or exploit angles. 

This is why I preach the importance of training more than backpedaling for rearward movement. Being able to shift the hips away, while keeping the head and gun on target, is a trained skill that requires reps. 

I like working reactive movement in this series:

1. Draw-strokes in motion
2. Hips to threat (backpedaling)
3. Hips away from threat
4. Transition between hips to and hips away
5. Turn & Burn

These skills are best developed in dry-fire and repped with an inert gun or NLTA against a role-player, and then validated in live-fire. 

BWC: Sheboygan PD, WI - OIS 07/02/2020