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.
Shameless YuYu Hakusho reference (I hope)
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.
Japanese athletes: 100 pushups, 100 sit ups, 100 squats and a 10km run every day.
Wouldn’t such a regiment have a high risk of all your hair falling out?
That doesn’t sound absurd for an athlete.
And yet the results speak for themselves.
Even without a gun, that is an expression that says, “you will really regret it if you ever try to fuck with me.”
But he’ll never hear you coming.
I’m not saying it’s good practice, but you can fire .22 LR without getting ringing in your ears. I’d never do it all day, but I’ve definitely done it a couple times just to get an idea how loud it is. The dude can probably hear fine. I’m not saying it won’t catch up to him though.
Edit I hear he shoots air pistol? I don’t know if that’s correct, but it’s definitely even quieter.
Shooting .22lr without earpro isn’t great, but yeah… doing it occasionally shouldn’t be an issue.
I use 22 on invasive nutria around the property, and when I see one of the giant rats I’ll just grab the rifle and go shoot them. It’s not like firing a .308 or .223 where it’s loud enough to permanently damage your hearing from 1 shot.
But if I’m going target shooting a 22 I’m gonna put on eyes and ears. Especially for a pistol. For those who haven’t shot, pistols are generally way louder than rifles of the same caliber. Not only is it closer to the shooter, but more of the gas expansion and powder burning occurs outside the barrel.
Air guns can also be just as loud as a 22 BTW. It’s actually fairly common to have a integrated into an air rifle in the US since the legal definition of a silencer specifically involves being designed for use on a firearm (air rifles aren’t legally firearms).
how does it sound from a rooftop?
…like it does from a deck or a driveway. I’m not sure what you’re getting at.
They’re joking (I hope), about the attempt last month.
I see. In my mind I don’t really connect target shooting and varmit hunting with a 22 with violence, so I missed the reference.
It’s like connecting wood carving with stabbings.
Yep! He competes in (at least) 10m mixed team. They use PCP pistols for that, so you really don’t really need more than a pair of earplugs. 25m and 25m rapid both use .22LR though, and many competitors compete in both events and only bring the one pair of PPE, so that’s where the images of competitors wearing full ears vs. earplugs only in one side come from (and/or some people’s ears are stupidly designed so they can’t wear normal earplugs / earbuds and have to have the uncomfortable and bulky over-the-ear protection. Not that I’m bitter or anything. Stupid ears.).
Also, his shooting stance is 100% standard, here’s him & his partner Sevval Tarhan in identical stances. It’s really more for comfort than anything else, since rounds go for 1hr 15min. Ergonomic stance means you can keep up the consistent shots for that long a period
The meme format with him vs. the south korean shooter Kim Yeji looks so different because they are competing in totally different events, even though they’re both shooting PCP target guns.
I heard someone say that he was wearing regular earplugs and that these are compressed air guns so not nearly as loud as regular guns. I have no idea on either of those loudnesses
‘Parry this you fucking casuals’
Even Texans fear him
He has kitty!
I like him already.
He attacc He protecc
But most importantly, he passed the vibe checc
My experience from visiting Turkey is that they love cats. People even leave food and water out for the strays.
Aren’t dogs a dirty animal in Islam? Since Turkey is 90+% Muslim that’d skew stats towards cats as pets.
Well feed.cats hunt for fun. Hungry kitty hunts generally only enough to eat.
“Have you seen this boy” insurance salesman edition
His hand is in his pocket to stabilize the swing from his massive dong 🍆
Opps, my huge gun was off target due to my magnum dong.
He has to synchronize his breathing with that swinging pendulum before he can time his shot.
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.
Why would a target marksmen need during awareness?
Paris can be dangerous at night
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 covers to obscure the off side eye. They are focusing on absolutely lining up the physical sights, no optics in Olympic pistol shooting.
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.
makes me want to scream NERD!, except she could blow my head off easily.
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.
She shot you a week ago. Wait for it….
Omae wa mou shindeiru
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.
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.)
Araki furiously taking notes for new JoJo poses
Depends on whether the targets are shooting back.
Silver?
Pathetic.
if yer not first yer last 🤪
First loser…
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.
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?
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.
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.
no no you see, there are hundreds of people who got silver medals, it is not a big deal.
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.
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.
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
Have it like The Price Is Right. Just call random people down from the crowd to do the hurdles.
Sounds like the perfect show for a sports channels during slow times.
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.
This dude is a professional sport-shooter and have been for decades.
People would straight up die
I think MXC essentially provides that experience.
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.
Right you are, Ken.
I highly doubt it is, but is it still going? I miss that so much.
Iirc it got rebooted recently.
And the other one is flicking a cigarette.
You you you oughta know
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
