Plot twist: he is blind on one eye
And deaf on both ears
and has an artificial arm
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 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.
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
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.
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.
She shot you a week ago. Wait for it….
Omae wa mou shindeiru
Eh, poses like this absolutely would not work in real world situations.
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.
I assume an Olympic shooter would use a different stance when firing a more powerful gun and still “blow their head off.”
Why would a target marksmen need during awareness?
Paris can be dangerous at night
Depends on whether the targets are shooting back.
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
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
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.
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.
and some acorns
Plastic cups. But that’s for russian cops.
Just got to drag US politics into it, don’t you?
They can’t, there are acorns in France
The best shooters in the US don’t typically make it out of high school.
Quality vs quantity.
Well, they make it IN high school
Unless they arrive a little late save, 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.
They only do that if it’s kids.
I know a professional assassin when I see one
The US Army used to teach shooting similarly to that, minus the hand in the pocket of course.
If you have your hand in your pocket you go to the ‘target’ side of the range.
They removed the soldier’s hand!? That’s serious dedication!
Once you sign the papers they can do whatever they want to you.
Both eyes make a huge difference if you want to switch between moving targets, so it makes sense in a military setting
“Have you seen this boy” insurance salesman edition
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”? 😄
https://i.servimg.com/u/f41/19/88/36/99/img_0927.jpg
That’s why these exist.
Darn it. Can you not hotlink images in Lemmy?
You can. Most instances run image hosting too.
Oh, do you need the “!” in front of the link? I tried something like that at first and it showed nothing
That’s standard Markdown syntax for embedded links: instead of linking, just show the content. Usually only for images but I think some sites will allow audio (and video?!) embeds as well.
Yes, video too, but support by clients is inconsistent (some don’t show playback controls and loop it like a gif, some just display a link). By default, the media hosting server allows for up to 900 frames (up to 30-37 seconds of smooth video) and 2160p; the audio track is removed; the filesize limit is 40 MiB (most instance owners set it way lower, perhaps 5 or 10). There is a caveat: all media must be encoded to a single codec of the instance owner’s choice: VP9 (default), H264, H265, AV1, VP8. Uploading in one of the others is possible but beware: it is going to be reencoded by the server, and if the process doesn’t finish within the timeout of 30 seconds, you get the error
ffmpeg timed out. In 30 seconds, a server without HW acceleration will typically only process a very short video (for feddit.org, it’s about 1 MiB’s worth of H265) so anything longer than a few seconds will fail! To take advantage of the full upload limit, you must reencode the video yourself to VP9 or whatever other codec is set (you can tell by uploading a tiny file in any codec and inspecting the output).You can use the following command to reencode the video to VP9:
ffmpeg -i input.mkv \ -r 899/<duration> `only use this for longer videos where you need to reduce frames to 900` \ -c:a libopus -b:a 48k `audio will probably be removed anyway` \ -c:v vp9 \ -crf 32 `constant quality mode, lower is better quality, try finding lowest value satisfying filesize limit` \ output.webmAlternatively, just use a more lenient hoster like GitHub or catbox.moe and embed the file from there.
Next time you can just upload the image and it will embed it in your comment.
FWIW your link worked just fine. Also disallowing hotlinking is the decision of the web server hosting the image, not Lemmy.
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.
That doesn’t sound absurd for an athlete.
And yet the results speak for themselves.
Wouldn’t such a regiment have a high risk of all your hair falling out?
Being ruled by Turks for 400 years kinda makes sense now
Peak sport right there!
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?
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
Even Texans fear him
