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Just like the name suggests: An olympic sport for something that matters. There's currently an olympic sport for target shooting, with a low-caliber rifle equipped with a comically large scope, in perfect weather conditions, at a paper target with lines telling you where to shoot.
Problem with this:
Who the Hell cares if you can shoot with a perfect weapon in perfect conditions? When could that ever be put to practical use?
So I suggest shooting with an Uzi from a moving vehicle, at life-size manequins (sp?) that are dressed in clothes. Why? Because this is how people actually shoot in real-world situations.
I'd also want to apply such changes to many other sports.
Olympic Programme Commission
http://en.beijing20...icle211996783.shtml
The Olympic body that decides what new sports to include in the Olympics [danpat, Jan 21 2006]
[link]
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I understand why they do it, however the fact is that with the kind of rifles they use *I* could hit a moving fly at 100 yards. Who cares if skilled people are competing if the competition doesn't test their skills?
I don't think guns should be in the Olympics because shooting's not a sport. You aim and squeeze a trigger. A child could do it (as evidenced in that link). There is hardly any physical effort required, and the Olympics were designed as a test of physical prowess.
If the Olympics are going to allow guns, they should at least make it realistic. |
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( If the Olympics are going to allow guns, they should at least make it realistic.) |
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Are you just trolling, [21]? Or have you been hanging out with the MPs again? |
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Most of those of us who pay for our own ammunition don't use Uzis. |
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No, I'm talking about the one where they shoot from various positions, but they're not moving. |
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I suggested Uzis because they're less accurate and therefore require a great deal of skill to hit a target while moving. |
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Utilizing that logic, we could do derringers at 100 feet. |
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Bad guy sprays away with uzi. Cop finds cover, takes a second to aim, squeezes off one 9mm round. Bad guy drops. Accuracy wins. |
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A two-team shooting game, where one team drives a car as bumpily as possible and the *opponent* has to shoot out the window of that same car, would be quite interesting. Then the teams switch. |
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I'd watch it. Assuming the target range was big enough and safe. |
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// Who cares if skilled people are
competing if the competition doesn't
test
their skills? // |
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If it doesn't test their skills, then
howcome
there is always a winner? Everyone who
doesn't win must have their skills tested
beyond their limit at some point. |
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Now, if this idea was to add skills to the
Olympics that aren't currently being
tested, then I'd vote neutral, because
there is already a processing for making
that happen (see link). But because this
is just an ill-thought-through rant
about shooting lots of stuff with lots of
bullets, it's a fish from me. |
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//this is how people actually shoot in real-world situations// People who shoot other people in a drive-by with an Uzi should be put in prison, not the olympics. The olympics is about competition for the sake of it, that's why there isn't a "Stock Market Analysis" event, or a "Fix The Leaky Toilet Cistern" event or any other event that relate to practical life-skills. There is a competition for useful life-skills, it's called life. |
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A well-aimed caber pole lobbed in the general direction of the poster... |
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I think that halfbaking should be an Olympic Sport. It's specialised, exclusive and interests me. What could be better? |
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better? only halfbaking half naked. |
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....with a catapult and a bag of thistle bracts. |
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//Will we have hordes of woad-tattooed screeching sword and spear wielding clansmen running at entrants in the archery competition?// |
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Nice image, [Murdoch]. I'm warming to your curmudgeonly approach to the world. |
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400m runners are given a half-lap start before the hungry cheetahs are unleased.
Hammer-throwers have a handicap based on the lethal radius of the bomb they have to throw. |
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Hell yeah! Now *that's* entertainment! |
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Like that Family Guy fake Fox special- "Fast Animals, Slow Children." |
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"Wait up guys, I've spilled honey all over myself!" |
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Is that like, "I wear the pants in my house. My wife just tells me which ones."? |
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I'd really want to have a real life situation where I'm flying along in a car, guning down passersby with an Uzi. It'd be much better than sitting at my computer doing this. |
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