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Okay, now we have the gun here.
We're going to imagine that it's loaded
and it is now ready to shoot.
How does one aim?
Well, this is something that it happens as a person
drills and drills and drills it.
You start off looking down the spear and you start off
with these little systems and that it doesn't take too long.
That soon you just look at the fish and point and shoot.
And at that point it starts getting, you know,
quite exciting for you.
But probably to start with,
to give you a little bit of a heads up
on a bit of direction.
If you put the tip, you look at the end here
and you put that onto your target
and then you bring up keeping it on the target.
You bring the back of the gun up
until you virtually can't see the gun anymore.
Well, that'll give you a pretty good line onto the fish.
Once again, it's trial and error.
Okay, now here's a tip.
If you actually shoot,
one moment, you shoot with an arm...
And elbow that's bent like that.
Next thing you see another fish.
Now you shoot it with it there. Next one you have,
and you're shooting your arms straight.
Next one you've got it like this.
So what you've got here is you've got no consistency.
Now there are very few spear fishers who can do this.
I've seen some of them and they are brilliant.
They can turn around and shoot off the hip.
They can shoot with bent elbows or whatever.
I'm not one of them.
But the system that you wanna develop pretty quickly,
it's a bit like, you know when you put a rifle
onto here, you're like a rifle here.
It's the same every time.
There's the same distance from there to there,
same distance from your eye to the scope
or the sight or whatever.
It's a bit like that, except we're holding it out here.
We wanna lock our arm out, okay?
So it's locked out
in the same position you're going to use every time.
Get used to it.
Now look, I learnt the hard way
I went, "Why am I missing fish today?"
I'm shooting right over the top of King fish,
this is back some years ago.
"Why am I missing fish today?", you know?
And I thought I better have a look what I'm doing
and all I was doing was I've been bending my elbow.
And I put the spear totally in a totally different place
than how I was normally shooting.
So I just locked my arm out again
and the next thing I was shooting fish again.
So it's not unusual for people to use two hands
but notice this, if you're using two hands,
this arm is in the same position
and this one supports, okay.
And then you can develop that good habits of consistency.
All right, what gets accurate is what's done consistent.
Anyone who does something enough,
can get consistent and can get accurate.
This is important to know.
You just don't get too concerned
about your misses and that, we all do that.
Now here's another tip.
Get close.
The important thing about this is that when
the spear leaves the gun, it's going at a hell of a rate,
but before it even gets to the end of the mono,
it's slowed down considerably.
It's a big item, it's got a lot of surface area
and it's going through a heavy medium, which is water.
So it actually will slow down pretty quick.
Now it doesn't drop, but it slows.
In the very first part
of the shot there's almost nothing can move it out
of the way or in the water
'cause it's under so much power.
However, in the second part of that trajectory,
it's quite possible for an
upper current a little bit of movement in the water
or the fish ahead in the school to wave its tail
to actually bring some pressure on
to here onto the shaft, enough to knock it off.
So the smart idea is get close.
If you're in blue water and you think you're close
and the water's crystal clear, get closer again
and then take your shot.
In fact, an old friend of mine
who was my mentor down in Sydney, he had a saying
and every coral sea trip we went out on.
He says, "If you think you're close, get closer."
Now, if you think you're close, he says,
"Get closer still. You're not close"
This drilled in our heads.
And we still managed to shoot fish
and have spears draw up short.
Why?
Water was so clear and the fish were so big
and we just made mistakes, dumb mistakes,
But yeah still, in clear water, get close.
In dirty water, get close.
Get close is the answer.
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