Rising young shotgun talents are invited to sign up for the ISSF-endorsed Beretta Shooting Data Junior Camp 2024, where specialist coaching offers a pathway to possible future international success.
There will be two successive Camps, both based in Italy and following a unique format now renowned as the most advanced of its type in Europe.
The first will take place from June 17 to 23 at Umbriaverde, Todi, where Marco Micheli, coach to the British Shooting team currently preparing for the Paris 2024 Olympics, will be in charge.
Another hugely experienced head coach, Andrea Miotto, will guide young shotgun athletes, focusing on the trap event, in the second Camp which will run from June 23 to 28 in Concaverde, Lonato.
Acting as guest coach to the project is Italy’s fabled trap competitor Johnny Pellielo, now 54, who earned three Olympic silvers and a bronze between 2000 and 1016 and won four individual and 12 trap team world golds.
The Camps are open to shooting athletes from Italy and the wider world, ideally aged between 14 and 21 – thus falling into the junior category – and the course is best suited to those who already have a good technical base and general shooting skills, but who would like to make a significant upgrade to their technique.
“With these kind of camps we want to give young shooters the full experience of working for a week as a professional shooter does most of the time of the year,” Micheli told ISSF.
“This mainly means their training will have a purpose and a structure which is not just focused on shooting targets but includes work around all the different areas an athlete should cover such as strength and conditioning, mental preparation and how to approach competitions.
"The last stage of the Umbriaverde camp will be in fact about applying the learning of the training days during a high level international Grand Prix such as the Emir Cup…
"I’m really glad to be able to dedicate some of my time working with the new generation of shooters just before the Paris Olympic Games which will be my second Games coaching for Great Britain.
"It is the pinnacle of our sport and I’m thankful to British Shooting for giving me the opportunity to be involved in the preparation of their athletes for such an important occasion.
"We are all working very hard to make sure our shooters can get the best from what has been their dream since they started shooting.
“Maybe some of the young participants of the Shooting Data Junior Camp will make it to an Olympics in the future.
“Who knows, as long as they have the will to learn and to commit to what it takes they will be able to shape their future career, our mission is to give them the tools to allow them to do so.”
The experience for participants at the Beretta Camps features work on improving reflexes, physical training, sharing the experience of champions, training on the shooting range, performance analysis with the bespoke Shooting Data Tool and studying the history of guns, engineering and ballistics.
Giuseppe Fiume, who attended the 2023 Shooting Data Junior Camp, commented:
“I chose the Shooting Data Junior Camp (SDJC) because I felt that something was missing in my current shooting sport experience and I thought this Camp could improve or refine my technique.
“And I have already noticed I have removed some of my shooting defects while I have been at the Camp. I’m conscious that the path ahead is still very long, but I will do my best to reach the goals I have set for myself.”
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