LAC Grant Wilson - Training Diary - 10 July 2012

Carl working on his skate 3

Mat, Carl & Coach finishing with some sprints

The day started with an easy session physically wise as today was the day of our shooting tests. We arrived just before 0900 to set up and do some dry shooting drills to get warmed up before zeroing. Once zeroed we had around 20 minutes to do anything we felt we needed to do be that more dry shooting, a short sleep or simply just lying down and relax. 20 minutes later we started our first test. Shooting on paper we had to take ten shots in the prone position onto each of the upper bravo and Charlie targets. Once completed the we then repeated the same shoot but this time in the stand position and onto upper Delta and Echo. We then went onto the second test which we had to fire onto the metal targets. First of all we shot in the prone position performing one shot drills, once ten shots had been fired in prone we then proceeded to fire a further ten shots from the standing position incurring a 10 second penalty for any misses. The last test was full magazine shoots once again ten from prone and to finish ten from standing with 5 second penalty this time (only the metal shoots were against the clock, so it's a balance of how fast you can shoot against how many targets you can hit?). The second session of the day saw us back down the range but this time skating round the track. The coach mainly worked with Mat and Carl who were focusing on skate three looking to reach forward to gain the full potential from the polling action. I trained on my own working on the same thing but on a shorter loop trying to improve not only my skate 3 but also skate 1 and 2 throughout the loop.