WEBVTT 00:00.009 --> 00:02.231 All right . Is there an Olympic athlete 00:02.231 --> 00:04.342 you are hoping to run into , into the 00:04.342 --> 00:07.050 Olympics ? I do not have one particular 00:07.059 --> 00:09.281 Olympic athlete I want to meet . Um you 00:09.281 --> 00:11.170 know , there's a lot of different 00:11.170 --> 00:11.159 sports , a lot of people , I probably 00:11.170 --> 00:13.337 don't know and they don't know me . Uh 00:13.337 --> 00:15.281 So I would say probably the entire 00:15.281 --> 00:17.337 experience , every person there . Um 00:17.337 --> 00:19.392 people who have been there before or 00:19.392 --> 00:21.503 experiencing for the first time , I'm 00:21.503 --> 00:23.726 looking forward to meeting everyone who 00:23.726 --> 00:25.392 are your biggest supporters . 00:25.392 --> 00:27.392 Definitely my family are my biggest 00:27.392 --> 00:29.503 supporters . Um you know , from start 00:29.503 --> 00:31.503 to day one up until now , they have 00:31.503 --> 00:33.726 always been behind me , whatever I want 00:33.726 --> 00:33.500 to do . They never , you know , pushed 00:33.509 --> 00:35.620 me or told me to do anything I didn't 00:35.620 --> 00:37.787 want to do , but they have always been 00:37.787 --> 00:39.898 100 and 10% behind me . So I've had a 00:39.898 --> 00:41.898 been blessed with a very supportive 00:41.898 --> 00:44.009 family and obviously the marksmanship 00:44.009 --> 00:46.810 unit and my coworkers , what do you do 00:46.819 --> 00:49.049 to relax and get away from the range ? 00:49.659 --> 00:51.826 So I don't get away as much as I would 00:51.826 --> 00:53.992 like . Um so relaxing and getting away 00:53.992 --> 00:57.729 from the range . Um I will be honest I 00:57.740 --> 00:59.962 kind of live eat and breathe shooting . 00:59.962 --> 01:02.073 Um , even when I'm off , I'm studying 01:02.073 --> 01:04.296 on shooting and how to win . Um , but I 01:04.296 --> 01:06.240 do , I try to take leave . I enjoy 01:06.240 --> 01:08.407 spending time outdoors and fishing and 01:08.407 --> 01:10.629 stuff , but I study on shooting quite a 01:10.629 --> 01:10.510 bit because it's always think about 01:10.519 --> 01:12.686 shooting , figure out how to win , win 01:12.686 --> 01:14.519 more and travel . Um , but there 01:14.519 --> 01:17.370 definitely is checks and balances . How 01:17.379 --> 01:19.900 do you cope with the stress of constant 01:19.910 --> 01:23.540 competition ? So coping with the 01:23.550 --> 01:26.139 stress of constant competition , um , 01:26.150 --> 01:29.379 it's definitely a switch . Um , for me , 01:29.940 --> 01:31.884 it's , you know , I think of it as 01:31.884 --> 01:33.996 being in like a car and I'm gonna use 01:33.996 --> 01:33.690 my hands like redlining , you know , if 01:33.699 --> 01:35.699 you just step in a car and push the 01:35.699 --> 01:37.921 accelerator and you're like redlining . 01:37.921 --> 01:39.921 So when I'm shooting competitions , 01:39.921 --> 01:42.032 that's where I'm at mentally . Um And 01:42.032 --> 01:41.639 then I , I consciously have to make an 01:41.650 --> 01:43.919 effort when I'm not competing . Um , 01:43.930 --> 01:46.041 you know , I have to go to a zero out 01:46.041 --> 01:48.319 of 10 . You know , that's my down time . 01:48.319 --> 01:50.374 I may not be shooting that great . I 01:50.374 --> 01:52.597 may not be , you know , 100% keen , but 01:52.597 --> 01:54.652 I know that when I get ready to ramp 01:54.652 --> 01:56.819 things up , I just mentally have to go 01:56.819 --> 01:58.874 to a different spot . All right . Uh 01:58.874 --> 02:01.041 Last question . So before you join the 02:01.041 --> 02:03.097 AM U , uh you mentioned , you shot a 02:03.097 --> 02:05.263 different discipline , what discipline 02:05.263 --> 02:07.541 was it ? And can you explain that ? So , 02:07.541 --> 02:09.652 before I joined the army marksmanship 02:09.652 --> 02:11.708 unit . I shot a game called Sporting 02:11.708 --> 02:11.690 Clays and that's governed by the 02:11.699 --> 02:13.810 National Sporting Clays Association . 02:13.839 --> 02:15.839 Um , a lot of people refer to it as 02:15.839 --> 02:17.950 golf with a shotgun . So it was not a 02:17.950 --> 02:20.006 standardized game like international 02:20.006 --> 02:22.228 trap . So you would shoot anywhere from 02:22.228 --> 02:24.490 10 to 1516 stations and have a 02:24.500 --> 02:26.722 different presentation of targets every 02:26.722 --> 02:28.778 time you have rabbit targets targets 02:28.778 --> 02:30.889 way in the sky below your feet . Um , 02:30.889 --> 02:33.111 essentially it was like golf , but with 02:33.111 --> 02:35.111 a shotgun and flying clay targets , 02:35.111 --> 02:37.444 whereas the game I shoot now , you know , 02:37.444 --> 02:39.444 it is a standardized game you shoot 02:39.444 --> 02:41.722 Olympic trap . It's 16 m , 15 machines . 02:41.722 --> 02:44.056 Um , it has been a giant learning curve . 02:44.056 --> 02:45.833 You know , they're both shotgun 02:45.833 --> 02:47.944 disciplines and shooting sports . But 02:47.944 --> 02:47.820 that's like saying , well , soccer and 02:47.830 --> 02:50.419 baseball both have balls involved . Um , 02:50.660 --> 02:53.059 but it was like golf with a shotgun is 02:53.070 --> 02:54.179 the only way to explain it .