10m Air Pistol and 10m Rifle

Pride Fighter

Hello, I was watching the Olympics recently and I was fascinated with those two particular events. I have good vision and eyesight and I think I could be quite good with lots of practice. I am a student in UCD and I know they have a Pistol and Rifle club, which I am now considering joining.
Anyone on here affiliated to the club?
Is it expensive (I'm a poor student)?
How long is the safety course, if there is one?
How can one train without the pistol and rifle? Is there eye exercises, co-ordination exercises, should I run so I have a low rest heart-rate?

Thanks for any replys or info.

Sparks

Not sure if we have any UCD shooters in here, but maybe we'll be lucky.
Their website is http://www.ucd.ie/rifle/

It's not expensive. Not by a long ways.

You can train without the pistol or rifle by working on balance - arabesques tend to be useful. Cardiovascular fitness and core strength has been of benefit to most shooters we've seen in the last decade or so, but it can be gotten around, and large muscle groups from serious gym work can be more of a liability than a strength. Heartrates are less important than you'd think. There aren't many eye exercises I can think of beyond the one of looking out a window and alternately focussing on the glass a few inches away and the horizon outside.

It wasn't me!

8 quid or so to join UCD I think, so cheap as chips considering what you can get from it.

Bar actively training with a gun, it can't be a bad idea to maintain good health, and good core strength and cardiovascular fitness will do you good.

I would also say that large muscle groups tend to bet quite tense and twitchy, and can make life harder. (I should know, a decade of rugby doesn't do me any favours at the moment, and you try find shooting trousers to fit around the upper legs of a tighthead prop!)