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.
Huh, I thought that that looked exactly like a Takeshi’s Castle obstacle, and sure enough the whole thing with MXC is that they repurposed Takeshi’s Castle footage to make a new show? Wild
Yep, take a Tekeshi’s Castle episode, have a couple guys dub over it with silly voices, broadcast it on cable, profit.
I highly doubt it is, but is it still going? I miss that so much.
Iirc it got rebooted recently.
This dude is a professional sport-shooter and have been for decades.
Have it like The Price Is Right. Just call random people down from the crowd to do the hurdles.
I’m fat and slow. I’d start running toward the hurdles and then swerve around them at the last second.
At least slow down and gingerly step over them, like a distrustful dog on an obstacle course.
Sounds like the perfect show for a sports channels during slow times.
People would straight up die
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.
19 hits but 200 bullets fired.
and some acorns
Plastic cups. But that’s for russian cops.
Many in the crowd hit, they had to redirect fire to the target
Tbf there were people in the audience holding water bottles which could be thrown as a deadly weapon – how do you know those bottles aren’t full of kerosene – and also filming the officer which can lead to the officer’s family being threatened by doxxing. The only people allowed to threaten the officer’s family with violence is the officer
I didn’t think about this possibility. The ratings are dropping and we need more viewership. How about next year Simmons Viles? Is that the correct spelling? How about she trains all the shooters to do a few cart wheels and such before actually shooting. Basically like an Xman event level demonstration of agility and dexterity. But let’s hope none of them are cops of this might end badly.
Just got to drag US politics into it, don’t you?
Unless they arrive a little late and, upon hearing the sound of gunfire coming from within the stadium, barricade themselves outside and wait for the shooters to run out of bullets or targets.
Edit: a word
They only do that if it’s kids.
The best shooters in the US don’t typically make it out of high school.
Well, they make it IN high school
Quality vs quantity.
They can’t, there are acorns in France
“Have you seen this boy” insurance salesman edition
So with the addition of some better equipment, like an eye shield, maybe he could have taken home the gold? Is there a GoFundMe?
I’m sure he had access to equipment.
On the one hand, I was just making a joke. You’re probably right.
On the other hand, there are Olympians working part time jobs to pay for their training and equipment. Not every country sponsors their athletes, and this shit ain’t cheap. Few things highlight global economic disparity like the Olympics.
If the caption is right this guy is Turkish military. They will absolutely give him all the range time and equipment he asks for.
I mean, they’re not fooling anyone. That guy is obviously Jeremy Renner with dyed hair.
No hearing protection either…
He had earplugs.
Small caliber air guns, so no dangerous decibels, but most shooters do wear ear protection to block out distractions.
I saw another picture of him in that event from the side and he was wearing ear plugs.
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 magnifiers, so that they are viewing the physical sights in a close and narrow view. 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.
Araki furiously taking notes for new JoJo poses
Yeah, every time someone mentions the hand-in-pocket thing it’s “ah, you don’t know what this event is”. Same with that one about holding the gun with both hands.
I post the screenshots that 4chan provides. Unfortunately they are not always 100% on the ball.
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.
Can’t argue with Olympic-level results, but I’ve been training myself to shoot with both eyes open and get better steel on target.
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.)
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.
She shot you a week ago. Wait for it….
Omae wa mou shindeiru
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.
Eh, poses like this absolutely would not work in real world situations.
I assume an Olympic shooter would use a different stance when firing a more powerful gun and still “blow their head off.”
If you were standing exactly 10m away and did not move,…
Damn, standing exactly 10m away from someone and not moving is my power move.
It’s my preferred flirting method.
Why would a target marksmen need during awareness?
Paris can be dangerous at night
Depends on whether the targets are shooting back.
Not that impressed, but still quite cool.
If somebody did the same in competitive rifle shooting I’d be astonished…and no, I don’t mean you need to keep one hand in the pocket.
wins silver at Olymics with a gear disadvantage “not that impressive” 🤡
So by your logic silver is something not often won by anyone in Olympics?
yes
literally only one person can get silver in each category every 4 years? per 8 billion people out there
…but the comment was about quality and quantity of the disadvantage, not about winning silver in Olympics.
How many medals do you have?
Personally none in the Olympics, but I have the same amount of Tour de France’s as Lance Armstrong (and one more ball)
In 2020 there were 448 events at the Olympics, let’s round up to 450. Each event gives 3 medals, for a total of 1350 medals. The Olympics are held every four years, so that 337.5 medals are awarded in an average year.
There are about 8.1 billion people in the world. On average, 0.000004 % of the worlds population receives an Olympic medal each year.
If this were a completely random yearly lottery, and you lived for 100 years, you would have about a 0.0004 % chance of winning an Olympic medal in your lifetime.
I would count myself lucky if I won that by the time I was 50.
no no you see, there are hundreds of people who got silver medals, it is not a big deal.
Just to be a total pendant, some of the events give two bronzes, e.g. boxing. It won’t change the conclusion of your comment of course.
I love pedantry <3 I got the “three medals per event” from some Wikipedia page, and I know they love pedantry over there as well, so maybe you should make a contribution?
In that case, let me add that in team events, each member gets a medal.
Silver?
Pathetic.
First loser…
if yer not first yer last 🤪
‘Parry this you fucking casuals’
And the other one is flicking a cigarette.
You you you oughta know
Should have sent this one for Trump
Don’t worry, with sniper rifle he can hit all the way from Paris
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
The US Army used to teach shooting similarly to that, minus the hand in the pocket of course.
They removed the soldier’s hand!? That’s serious dedication!
Once you sign the papers they can do whatever they want to you.
If you have your hand in your pocket you go to the ‘target’ side of the range.
Both eyes make a huge difference if you want to switch between moving targets, so it makes sense in a military setting
And that’s the last time I call John Oliver a British toucan…
How close did he get to making the Lion King worth watching as Zazu?
Being ruled by Turks for 400 years kinda makes sense now
