New beginnings =)

I'm going to try something I copied from a friend so yeah :)

About the title:
Its been more than a year since my last post, so that's ONE kind of beginning I guess

Another new beginning would be the start of my time with a new, but at the same time somewhat familiar weapon, the rifle. YES, I know I've professed my love for the pistol countless times, and I'll never forget my partners 736218 and 901330, who've kept me company for these past 3 years, and I'll always love you no matter what. I also remember my determination last year to overcome this "mental problem" of mine, which was to focus too much on the details and lose my focus because of that. Well, I'm not giving up that determination, that's for sure. I'll continue to treat shooting with the same level of passion, determination and seriousness that I've always treated it with, even though I may have decided to switch to a different weapon. If I remember to, I'll talk 'bout the reason for that switch in a later post.

The final new beginning, at least for now, would be the beginning of my post as quartermaster of Raffles Shooting Club. Such a nostalgic position, which threatens to raise a range of emotions which run the gamut from happiness to sadness; empoweredness to helplessness. To be fair to the post, I did derive a fair bit of satisfaction from it in RI, in being around to watch my juniors train, being around to watch them grow up into wonderful people, and being around to see them being together, having fun together. It was a healing experience for me, seeing the togetherness of their batches, but it can't help but make me wonder: what went wrong with our batch? why do we seem to be the only batch that was fragmented to such a severe extent? And this leads me to the even larger and perhaps more worrying question, why does this always seem to happen around me? Maybe its because I've experienced too little to experience any wonderful experiences but of late, I've gotten the feeling of being unable to connect with people, and maybe even having a disruptive influence on the bonds people have. That's a really lousy feeling.

Mentioning my post as quartermaster, I can't fail to leave out my disappointment in myself for being unable to attain the post of captain. I had so many people rooting for me, especially Siyi, Mengshi and Daniel, and I really feel that I've let them down with my dismal showing at the EXCO elections on Wednesday. Well, I've decided to put that behind me, and to do my best to make it up to them, and to live up to the perhaps overwhelmingly huge amount of faith they've placed in me and to do my best, to go beyond the boundaries of my job scope as QM, to give my all to the club.

And that's that for new beginnings. There are many other thoughts in my head right now, but that's always been a given, so I shall keep them for later. And now; since this IS my shooting blog after all, I shall end off with clearly stating my rifle routine :P

1: Secure the butt just a little off from my shoulder
2: Raise the gun, and rest in on my fist; approximately around the 2nd and 3rd knuckles (I'll work more on this later)
3: Rest my elbow on my hip bone, such that my arm is straight and it doesnt slide around
4: Close my eyes, and feel the stability of my whole body. All the parts come together as one, and nothing is shaking or out of place
5: Check my left arm and placement of the butt against my right shoulder
6: Slowly cheek down
7: Close my eyes again, and feel the stability of my whole body
8: Open my eyes, and look through the scope
9: Let the rifle enter the aiming area. Trigger finger moves to the trigger
10: Let it waver naturally and uniformly. DON'T control it!!!
11: Continue on focusing on body stability
12: First pressure...
13: Pull the second pressure when it feels just right
14: Follow through (IMPT DON'T FORGET!!!)
15: Lower the gun
16: Rinse and repeat

And that's it! So simple right? Well I'll be working on the more technical aspects of this in future trainings and depending on how busy I am, I'll update this as I see fit.

P.S. Thanks WZ for making me see the benefit of keeping a shooting journal! I'll do my best to keep it up consistently.

Raffles Shooting ABR jiayou all the way!

And to anyone who happens to read this, its a matter of fate that you're reading this out of the gazillions of blogs on the internet, so do leave me some comments XD