We should make some “cash-lympics” where some random people from every nation within the desired age are invited for free to just compete, with no training whatsoever. It would certainly be as fun/exciting as watching this dude
I think MXC essentially provides that experience.
Right you are, Ken.
Have it like The Price Is Right. Just call random people down from the crowd to do the hurdles.
He has kitty!
My experience from visiting Turkey is that they love cats. People even leave food and water out for the strays.
I like him already.
He attacc He protecc
But most importantly, he passed the vibe checc
His name is Yusuf Dikeç, he was in the 10m air pistol men and mixed team events. The silver was in the mixed team event, won alongside teammate Şevval İlayda Tarhan. Despite what appears to be an exceptionally successful sport shooting career otherwise, he seems to have struggled in prior Olympic games ("struggled" relative to "qualified for the goddamn Olympics" of course) but apparently he was just on the ball this time
This is the type of character you see in an anime and you scoff as unrealistic. I stand corrected
Heh. You made me use ten percent of my power, pretty good.
Someone starts getting close to his score, "interesting! I haven't had a match like this in a long time," and he switches gun hands.
Japan experiences a high number of earthquakes because of all the athletes removing their extremely weighted training equipment when facing tough competition and needing to get serious. Undo the bindings and casually allow it to drop to the ground and the only reason Tokyo is still standing is because they designed their buildings to account for this.
And then a character known for watching bullets travel from the gun to the target is shocked to realize he can't follow the movement of the gun anymore.
Isn’t aiming with both eyes open the way to do it? I learned to do that in the military to keep your situational awareness and never stopped. Also, it works really well with a holographic sight, like you’ve got the red dot / reticule floating on the target.
If you look at Olympic pistol shooting pics there’s a bunch with a hand in the pocket too.
Both eyes open is great for the real world. Olympic target shooting is a very different animal. Don't think of it like normal shooting. Situational awareness is not a factor. Unlike practical shooting, tunnel vision is desired. Most shooters wear blinders to obscure the off side eye. On the aiming eye they often wear special glasses. They are focusing on absolutely lining up the physical sights, there are no optics in Olympic pistol shooting.
For comparison, this is what a more conventional Olympic headgear setup looks like.
Yes the hand in pocket is pretty common in Olympic shooting. Unfortunate that it was part of the list as it undercuts the rest of the valid observations unusualness of the setup and success.
This shooter was much more casual than most. Most shooters will line up with special highly stable, but strange looking stances.
makes me want to scream NERD!, except she could blow my head off easily.
Nerd? No, she's a cyborg sent back in time to protect you.
Pretty sure that's an air pistol and firing an actual pistol like that (assuming something big enough actually blow a head off) would do weird things to her shoulder.
It would do weirder things to your head.
Araki furiously taking notes for new JoJo poses
Your eye is still open under that flap though, no? I dabbled in Olympic pistol shooting back when I was doing across-the-course service rifle, and I was told to always keep both eyes open by the dude teaching me. Same for service rifle (and later palma). I always found that closing one of your eyes fucks up your focusing. If you don't have the little flappy dealy, you just do your best to defocus/deprioritize the view out of your non-dominant eye. I actually went for quite a while without any sort of cover because it helped me avoid cross firing (which is probably more of an issue with across-the-course than with Olympic pistol).
You're absolutely right about the lack of spectacles though. This guy is one hell of a marksman.
The unusual factor at the Olympic level is that he both chose not to wear a blinder and not to close his eye. This means he was getting visual input from both eyes, that as you noted he had to block out mentally.
When shooting is down to the millimeter, all of this is important. This is the exact opposite of practical shooting, where you want a large field of view, or potentially an occluded eye effect to aim in some cases. (Cover the front of a red dot and then aim with both eyes open for a test of occluded aiming. Your brain will overlay the dot from the shooting eye and the target from the weak side eye and you will be able to aim. It will not be down to the millimeter accurate however, which matters within the abstract environment of target shooting.)
He looks like he commented to someone doing this sport professionally that it look easy and now, with a bit of disdain and irritation, he had to show them what he meant by that
Both eyes open can be better for your aim if you can resolve both images of the sights and place the target exactly between the images. Takes practice but seems to have a higher skill ceiling
So he's just silently telling everyone "skill issue"? 😄
His hand is in his pocket to stabilize the swing from his massive dong 🍆
The US Army used to teach shooting similarly to that, minus the hand in the pocket of course.
Both eyes make a huge difference if you want to switch between moving targets, so it makes sense in a military setting
'Parry this you fucking casuals'
I heard the US lost. They should have sent cops. Then just paint a black man as the target 🎯. 19 shots hit, and only needed one for gold.
They can’t, there are acorns in France
The best shooters in the US don't typically make it out of high school.
Even without a gun, that is an expression that says, "you will really regret it if you ever try to fuck with me."
I know a professional assassin when I see one
"Have you seen this boy" insurance salesman edition
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