“Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when to ignite the spark.”

Shooting, a competitive and a recreational activity, involves proficiency test of accuracy, patience, concentration and speed. This sport mainly includes the manmade portable guns (short distance gun shooting to the long range shooting arms). Here, at Gyananda School For Girls’, we have started mentoring students in this sport, which includes 10m Air Rifle (Peep Sight) and 10m Air Pistol (Peep Sight). It is an individual sport which starts from the club level and passionate players have the opportunity to reach the international level and the prestigious Olympics.

Focusing on both physical and mental development, shooting is a sport that leads to the holistic well-being of a player. On one hand, the mental benefits of shooting include concentration, focus, building of self-esteem, confidence. One extremely significant but rarely acknowledged benefit of shooting is that it also helps in relieving stress. On the other hand, the sport also requires physical strength. Therefore, we train and encourage students to take keen interest in fitness. We make sure that every student does all sorts of exercises which include core and cardio workout, arm and thigh muscle strengthening exercises and balancing.