Air Pistol training at the OTC
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 10:17 pm
I got this email from John Zurek about his recent activities at the Olympic Training Center and found it interesting.
"Hello Everyone, An exciting day here at the USOTC in Colorado Springs. The Men's National Pistol Team is training with Korean Shooter Jingh Jung Oh(sp?) this week - Jingh set a new 10m world record this year at the World Cup Korea, a 594/600 HUGE accomplishment and that score is going to hard to beat...
Today we shot a "bundesliga" competition - 40 record shots in 50 minutes(10m air pistol). We paired off with shooters of an opposing team, 7 teams total. Of course I am a bit slow in my shooting so it came down to my pair to decide the winning team. In bundesliga, noise and commotion is encouraged, the announcer on the loud speaker was sure to let me and the crowd know that the teams were neck in neck to the last shot...after the scores were totalled... Rich Gray and I tied, so there would be a shootoff to decide the winning team. Finals format for the shootoff - 1 record shot in 75 seconds. My first attempt was aborted with the crowd cheering (and jeering) I took another lift and held on as Rich had already fired his shot...my sights lifted as the shot broke and I called the shot "high"... the scores came in, Rich had a 9.3, and my target scored a 10.0 out the top.Whewwww! That tiebreaker put our team(the Seals) ahead of the Polar Bears. Good training is how I put it!
Another training competition followed... A SuperFinal. Which is basically a 10 shot final fired twice then the total score combined and then a shot by shot shootoff til one man remains. I shot a personal best final for the first 10 shot series - a 102.4, which put me in second place behind Jingh(anything over 100.0 is a good final score). Then the next 10 shot string was more of an average score 100.9, but still good considering my combine score kept me in second place for the shootoff - of course behind Jingh, by now he had a 4 point lead! I did not fair well in the shootoff, however, slipping to 5th place in a very close race. Again, as I walked off the line the value of this training drill was in the forefront of my mind - how can I replicate this type of atmosphere and adrenaline rush while training on my home range???
On Sunday the team flies to Ft Benning GA. for the Fall Selection Match which is used to determine who will represent the USA at the first two World Cups of 2010(New Dehli and Beijing). We will shoot 50 m Free Pistol and 10m Air Pistol. This training session is valuable experience for the upcoming match, and glad I could be apart of it."
"Hello Everyone, An exciting day here at the USOTC in Colorado Springs. The Men's National Pistol Team is training with Korean Shooter Jingh Jung Oh(sp?) this week - Jingh set a new 10m world record this year at the World Cup Korea, a 594/600 HUGE accomplishment and that score is going to hard to beat...
Today we shot a "bundesliga" competition - 40 record shots in 50 minutes(10m air pistol). We paired off with shooters of an opposing team, 7 teams total. Of course I am a bit slow in my shooting so it came down to my pair to decide the winning team. In bundesliga, noise and commotion is encouraged, the announcer on the loud speaker was sure to let me and the crowd know that the teams were neck in neck to the last shot...after the scores were totalled... Rich Gray and I tied, so there would be a shootoff to decide the winning team. Finals format for the shootoff - 1 record shot in 75 seconds. My first attempt was aborted with the crowd cheering (and jeering) I took another lift and held on as Rich had already fired his shot...my sights lifted as the shot broke and I called the shot "high"... the scores came in, Rich had a 9.3, and my target scored a 10.0 out the top.Whewwww! That tiebreaker put our team(the Seals) ahead of the Polar Bears. Good training is how I put it!
Another training competition followed... A SuperFinal. Which is basically a 10 shot final fired twice then the total score combined and then a shot by shot shootoff til one man remains. I shot a personal best final for the first 10 shot series - a 102.4, which put me in second place behind Jingh(anything over 100.0 is a good final score). Then the next 10 shot string was more of an average score 100.9, but still good considering my combine score kept me in second place for the shootoff - of course behind Jingh, by now he had a 4 point lead! I did not fair well in the shootoff, however, slipping to 5th place in a very close race. Again, as I walked off the line the value of this training drill was in the forefront of my mind - how can I replicate this type of atmosphere and adrenaline rush while training on my home range???
On Sunday the team flies to Ft Benning GA. for the Fall Selection Match which is used to determine who will represent the USA at the first two World Cups of 2010(New Dehli and Beijing). We will shoot 50 m Free Pistol and 10m Air Pistol. This training session is valuable experience for the upcoming match, and glad I could be apart of it."