• @deranger@sh.itjust.works
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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

        • @shalafi@lemmy.world
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          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.

        • SSTFOP
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          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.)

      • @Aqarius@lemmy.world
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        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.

        • SSTFOP
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          I post the screenshots that 4chan provides. Unfortunately they are not always 100% on the ball.

  • themeatbridge
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    So with the addition of some better equipment, like an eye shield, maybe he could have taken home the gold? Is there a GoFundMe?

    • SSTFOP
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      I’m sure he had access to equipment.

      • themeatbridge
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        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.

        • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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          If the caption is right this guy is Turkish military. They will absolutely give him all the range time and equipment he asks for.

          • themeatbridge
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            I mean, they’re not fooling anyone. That guy is obviously Jeremy Renner with dyed hair.

  • @Nikls94@lemmy.world
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    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

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    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.

          • @czl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            211 months ago

            Personally none in the Olympics, but I have the same amount of Tour de France’s as Lance Armstrong (and one more ball)

        • @CapeWearingAeroplane@sopuli.xyz
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          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.

        • @shneancy@lemmy.world
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          yes

          literally only one person can get silver in each category every 4 years? per 8 billion people out there

          • Random_Character_A
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            …but the comment was about quality and quantity of the disadvantage, not about winning silver in Olympics.

  • Fuck spez
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    And the other one is flicking a cigarette.

  • Skua
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    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

    • @uis@lemm.ee
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      Don’t worry, with sniper rifle he can hit all the way from Paris

  • peopleproblems
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    I can’t be that stable with my arm held out in any circumstances but this seems like an incredibly fun sport.

    10m air pistol. Accuracy is what counts. It ain’t your American shootin that’s for sure