: Shooting World C’ship: Joydeep Karmakar, with stopwatch & heart-monitor, aims to get his squad ready #IndiaNEWS In a few weeks’ time, coach Joydeep Karmakar imagines he will be holding a whistle

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Shooting World C’ship: Joydeep Karmakar, with stopwatch & heart-monitor, aims to get his squad ready #IndiaNEWS
In a few weeks’ time, coach Joydeep Karmakar imagines he will be holding a whistle and stopwatch, as he watches over the shooters at a national camp in New Delhi. This is all because of a few changes in the rules that were implemented earlier this year that affect the 50m rifle 3-positions squad.The stakes are high at the upcoming ISSF Rifle/Pistol World Championship, which starts on October 12 in Cairo, Egypt. There is, of course, the prestige of winning a medal at the elite world event, but there’s also the prospect of the top four finishers in each discipline winning their country a quota for the Paris 2024 Olympics. But to give the shooters as much of a solid foundation as possible, the focus in the national camp will be more on strategy and time management than technique.For the training camp, Karmakar intends to have a few sessions where the focus is only on what happens in the changeover.“We want to create that stressful environment and have those simulations to get them as prepared as possible,� said the national rifle coach, who looks after the 50m team, to Scroll.in.“You need to be well trained for the transition. We’ve had a separate training program just...Read more

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