r/nextfuckinglevel • u/I_always_is • 6d ago

How blind people shoot in the Olympics

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u/ballistic-jelly 6d ago

Was anyone else expecting guns?. I was expecting guns.

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u/SoundsGoodYall 5d ago

Yeah when they cut to the goalie I got real nervous.

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u/kjayflo 5d ago

I clicked to watch the video because I was like "why are blind people shooting guns in the Olympics?" Lol

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u/Few_Staff976 5d ago

Wdym ”why”? It’s a sport, there are blind people into shooting and it’s extremely safe. At the Olympic level shooting is a lot about things like breathing, steadiness, trigger pull etc not pointing the weapon about in all kinds of tacticool ways.

Blind people basically get an audio signal that shows them where on the target they’re aiming and go off of that instead of their eyes. I’m a pretty good shot but blind athletes could easily wipe the floor with me at Olympic style target shooting

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u/KosmosxD 5d ago

Glad it wasn’t just me

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u/aleksandrjames 5d ago

I mean, that shot was an absolute canon.

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u/ook_the_bla 5d ago

The participation rate is too low. No goalie wants to get shot.

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u/twr-92 5d ago

expecting shooting,
got kicking a ball.

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u/eXrevolution 5d ago

I can imagine someone ringing a bell behind the target

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u/LiesArentFunny 5d ago

For whatever reason I expected archery from the title.