[Jan 27-28] Target Shooting Training Seminar

Sparks

Wilkinstown Target Shooting Club
in conjunction with
The National Target Shooting Association of Ireland

Preliminary Details
Target Shooting Training Seminar


Day 1: Saturday January 27th 2007

National Aquatic Centre, Abbottstown

10.30am Registration Tea / Coffee

10.45am Introduction: Liam Crawford (Chairman NTSA)

11.00am Guest Speaker: Tony Ward (Paralympic Athlete)

‘Words of Encouragement’

12.15pm Light Lunch

1.15pm Physical Fitness Instructor + Gym workout (Gym gear needed)

3.00pm Finish

Day 2: Sunday January 28th 2007

Rifle range in UCD

Full match at the UCD range plus one to one de-brief with coach (Matt Fox or Geoff Cooney)

Depending on numbers: Range opening at 9. 30 Am.: A Discussion with Matt and Geoff about the purpose of the day’s activities. Shooters will be required to have an outline plan for what they wish to work on during the session.

9.45am – 12.00noon Detail 1

12.30pm – 2.30pm Detail 2

(Where applicable, this match can be used as part of the Welsh Postal League)

A third detail may be included if numbers warrant it. However, I will fill details one and two first. Those who attend on Saturday and wish to use the match on Sunday for training purposes only may opt out of having their scores recorded, on condition that they notify me before the start of the detail.

The cost for this training weekend is expected to be €20.00 per person. Numbers attending are restricted and pre booking is essential. Please contact me at 046 9054167 and or at acooney@iol.ie

Special thanks are extended to the Committee of UCD for making their range available to us.

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Very good attendance at both days, with 15 shooters on day one and two full details on day two. Full reports to follow, but for now here are the scores:


NTSA 10m Airgun Open
UCD Rifle Club
28/01/2007

AR60

Shooter Club Class 10 shot series Total Placing
1 2 3 4 5 6
Lyons Emma UCDRC A 94 93 90 92 89 97 555 1,A1
Baldwin Sean Army B 89 93 93 93 95 90 553 2,B1
Stapelton Richard WTSC A 92 95 91 89 96 89 552 3,A2
O'Donohoe Joe Army B 88 93 88 93 93 93 548 B2
O'Hagan Jim WTSC B 93 88 89 88 91 93 542 B3
Nash Iain DURC B 85 95 91 86 85 92 534
Fleming Daniel WTSC B 88 89 89 89 91 84 530
Dunne Mike DURC C 83 90 87 85 86 89 520 C1
McGrath Paul DURC B 83 88 85 87 90 87 520
Baconin Thomas UCDRC D 78 77 84 79 84 77 479 D1
Kane Ray Army A 96 94 93 93 95 0 471 DNF
Cunningham Laura WTSC D 62 73 69 63 73 64 404 D2
Dunne Laura DURC D 68 73 57 67 64 70 399 D3



AR40

Shooter Club Class 10 shot series Total Placing
1 2 3 4
Cunningham Susan WTSC A 96 91 97 97 381 1,A1
O'Hagan Elizabeth WTSC A 90 94 91 87 362 2,A2
Cunningham Paula WTSC A 89 91 86 85 351 3,A3
Gaffney Ciara UCDRC A 91 91 92 60 334 DNF
Lawlor Catriona DURC D 63 65 66 65 259 D1
Bourke Jean DURC D 61 49 36 63 209 D2



AP60
Shooter Club 10 shot series Total Placing
1 2 3 4 5 6
Oughton Ewan WTSC 89 93 88 90 84 84 528 1
Raval Rajkumar UCDRC 86 84 84 88 94 87 523 2

Sparks

Report:

A seminar was held on the Saturday of this weekend in the National Aquatic Centre in Abbotstown to bring those interested in International-level competition face to face with what it takes to make it at that level. NTSA Chair Liam Crawford opened the morning's session with some brief words on the state of target shooting in Ireland at present and the behind-the-scenes work on changing the support mechanisms in place for the shooters. he then introduced Paralympic runner Tony Ward, who gave a frank talk with those present on the realities of dedicated training, from the 0530 wake-up calls on cold dark winter mornings to get training time before work or school, to the sacrifices made in social and work lives in order to get the time needed to train for competition properly.

A questions and answers session led into informal chatting with Tony on a one-to-one basis over lunch, and then after a short pause for digestion, a talk was given by NAC physical fitness instructor Kieran Keogh on the physiological demands of target shooting and how best to train to accomodate them. A practical session followed, which gave some a cause for mirth as Geoff and Mark joined in as best they could, and following a demonstration of how to enhance core strength, flexibility, balance and how to approach a fitness plan on an overall level, Kieran gave a walking demonstration of typical modern gym equipment and answered a lot of questions from the shooters.

The overall feel for the course was that it had been very worthwhile, and had addressed several areas in physical training that were not well covered prior to now. This will lead to improvements - especially since a return session with Kieran has been arranged for about six weeks from now to assess progress and make further training plans!

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Report on the Match by Geoff Cooney:

The second day of the NTSA / Wilkinstown Training seminar consisted of an air rifle match in UCD. There were two details and while 25 shooters had notified me about attending some of them were unable to attend, but this still resulted in two full details.

In this match I wished to tighten up competition protocols and this was achieved by the following methods; Preparation and Start times were posted (second detail was delayed a bit for practical factors); the Range Officers for each detail were also identified and their presence was highly visible without being intrusive; Protest times were announced and access to the stats office was restricted. A request from shooters that noise levels at the end of details be reduced was also acted on. I am delighted to say that all the above measures were successfully implemented with the full cooperation of the shooters and spectators.

Mike Dunne, who recently participated at our Range officer course, earned his stripes and very successfully R/O’ed his first detail. Well done Mike! Mark and Chris ran the Stats office. Pat O’Hagan issued targets and sorted out fees.

Thanks are extended to UCD for allowing the use of their range and the introduction of new target changing equipment is great. Thanks to Chris and Ciara for checking the equipment the night before.

It is great to see new college shooters taking their places on the firing lines and we wish them all well. The absent college shooters from the lines are a worry and hopefully we can get a greater number of participants in the forthcoming matches. It is good to see also the PDF team back competing.

On a more general note, the National Championships in Air Rifle and Air Pistol are coming up soon. An R/O course has been run; with another one this weekend, the purpose is to train up a team of R/O’s, on which the NTSA can call to officiate at these matches. Background work is also being commenced on training up people for the stats office. And in the near future training in equipment control will also commence. My goal is to have a fully trained and functioning background team in place for the airgun nationals this year, because I want this year’s Nationals to be the best we have ever run. Now if the background people are breaking their backs to get ready for the Nationals, then what about the shooters? Are you busting your bits to win Class D, Class C, Class B, and Class A?