Another Equal World Record for Martynov

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That makes six EWRs for the LTC from Belarus and makes him the shooter with the most EWRs in the prone event. Seriously impressive stuff. His groups can be seen here. Hell of an achievement. It seems only a matter of time before he sets a new Final World Record as well. The current one of 704.8 (600 + 104.8) has stood since Christian Klees set it, shooting the 600 at the Atlanta Olympics, a new record in itself. That wasn't a great final from Martynov either, so perhaps we'll see that before too long.

In other news, Beate Gausse of Germany shot another EWR as well in the 10m air rifle, which makes several for her this year alone, including two back to back, a week apart, in Hanover and Plzen. The ISSF shooting scene is extremely healthy at the moment. Hopefully we'll start being better represented abroad in the next while. Would be extremely nice to see an Irish team of three in a few of the events. 10m air rifle women and 50m prone men seems doable.

FLOYDSTER

AWESOME!!!!!;)

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Just need one in the record books now with an Irish flag next to it.

demonloop

Think I posted this before, but a few years ago whilst at Eley, MB asked him how many 600s he's shot. He replied "Six" (or whatever number of equal WRs it was at the time) to which MB replied "No, how many total? Including training etc"

Replied "Don't know" - in other words too many to count. Frigger.

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demonloop wrote: »

Think I posted this before, but a few years ago whilst at Eley, MB asked him how many 600s he's shot. He replied "Six" (or whatever number of equal WRs it was at the time) to which MB replied "No, how many total? Including training etc"

Replied "Don't know" - in other words too many to count. Frigger.

He's a machine alright. At some point, I suppose it has to become routine though. I mean, I typically don't shoot my best in matches, so someone dropping two or three points in an important match, how often are they going to drop a point during a relaxed, informal training session?

FLOYDSTER

Bring him down to Roundwood!! lol:D

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FLOYDSTER wrote: »

Bring him down to Roundwood!! lol:D

Hehe, see how he gets on with those invisible headwinds, eh?

demonloop

If any of you have a copy of Ways of the Rifle, take a look at his position - its more or less an example of what NOT to do. Looks really uncomfortable, bordering on unstable. Can't argue with the results though!

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demonloop wrote: »

If any of you have a copy of Ways of the Rifle, take a look at his position - its more or less an example of what NOT to do. Looks really uncomfortable, bordering on unstable. Can't argue with the results though!

Aye, saw him in person in Munich and wondered how he could shoot a match, let alone a career, without seriously straining his back.

Sparks

In Soviet Russia, back strain you!

Sparks

Video interview with Martynov here.

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Sparks wrote: »

Video interview with Martynov here.

He's really not in favour of the new finals format. Frankly I find it almost cheesily pandering to the tv audience. Really takes the seriousness out of it, in a way, makes it look more like a spectacle for the entertainment of the viewers, rather than a sporting occasion, which the viewers may feel privileged to witness.

Sparks

I have to concur. I've said it elsewhere, but if I wanted to shoot the Bianchi Cup, I'd shoot the Bianchi Cup. I don't - there's nothing wrong with the Bianchi Cup, it's just not my Cup of tea (ha! I made the funneh...)

And I really don't like the idea that the sport I love can be changed because some anonymous old men in a closed room ISSF committee meeting think they can guess what a group of NBC's advertising executives in another closed room committee meeting think they could sell to yet another group of boards of directors of the companies that buy advertising space during the Olympics off NBC. It's too far into waving-a-dead-chicken territory, to borrow a programming idiom. I mean, if this keeps up, we'll be shooting in mankinis and while there are some shooters who could pull that off, I'm not one of them.

Look, a decent knowledgable commentator with a clear voice? Fantastic. Badly needed.
Electronic targets and easy to read displays showing everyone where every competitor stands in the match? Brilliant. More of that please.
Noptels on all finalists to show their point of aim during the shot and their heartbeat and balance and trigger pressure? Hell yes, bring it on.
But this fapping about with when we do what and how we wave to the audience...
...well, look, if it was going to work, wouldn't that finals hall have been slightly more crowded? I mean, that was a World Cup Final, in a country where shooting is one of the largest sports in the country, and all they had were the shooters' coaches and trainers and fellow teammates.

I think our problem is somewhat more fundamental than moving the introduction time around like that.

And something that's been bugging me about this is the thought that while the ISSF seems to have no issue in changing rules - a move which carries very high monetary costs for those in the shooting community when they have to buy new compliant equipment - they seem to have not considered spending the €30-40,000 it would take to fully equip a finals line with noptels and the extra few grand it would take to put the information into an on-screen display on the televised footage. In terms of televising a sport for 590 million people (as per their most recent claimed numbers), that outlay would be negligible.

I know Eurosport did it some time ago for a test match and it was most excellent - it wasn't as good as being on the line, but it was the next best thing that technology currently allows; so why aren't ISSF testing this for World Cup level and above instead of getting all the competitors to lay out a few grand apiece? It'd be both faster and cheaper to implement, and may well be more effective.