South Korea’s record-breaking Olympic shooter -Kim Yeji.
This meme is funny but they are pretty similar. The only “gear” Yejin is wearing is the shooting glasses, which is basically a prescription lens (no magnification is allowed - these lens make things look less blurry, but can’t make them look bigger) on a frame that allows more adjustment than normal eyeglasses, with a piece of plastic instead of lens over the other eye. You can achieve something very similar by taping a piece of paper to the left lens of your own glasses.
The advantage shooting glasses provide is the ability to move the lens up/down/sideways. Depending on your specific shooting stance, if your head is tilted too much, normal eyeglasses may not provide the best field of view if you’re only looking through one side of it. In those cases, you buy a pair of shooting glasses and move the lens. If you look at Yejin’s shooting stance, her arm is almost parallel with her body, whereas Dikec’s arm is slightly angled forwards (not much, maybe 10 degrees?). This means Dikec can see more out of his regular eyeglasses than Yejin can in their respective shooting stances, which is probably why Dikec didn’t need shooting glasses.
Besides ear protection (which Dikec is actually wearing - if you watch videos of the match he has bright yellow earplugs in), no other gear is allowed in this event - shoes cannot go above the ankle, clothing cannot restrict movement. Most people wear some sort of flat-soled shoes, whatever clothing you wear literally doesn’t matter except to keep you warm/cool. This is in contrast to air rifle, where stiff clothing is allowed - competitors basically wear what looks like clunky armor (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Air-rifle-shooting.jpg), it’s hard to bend your knees in them and nearly impossible to squat. I used to train with those guys, I’d take the piss out of them by pretending to be nice and offering them some water, then putting it on the floor in front of them.
And before anyone mentions it, putting their hand in the pocket is the standard stance for air pistol shooting. Only one hand is allowed on the gun. And in a sport where your breathing and heart rate interferes with your accuracy, having one hand free means it might move around and cause micro movements to your body, so everyone puts their other hand in their jacket/pants pocket, or tucks the thumb in their waistband.
It does look badass though.
Source: I used to compete in ISSF 10m and 25m air pistol events like these (this is 10m)
FINAL EDIT: I just wanted to end by saying that Dikec (the Turkish guy) may look cool and casual, and I enjoy all the “retired hitman rolls out of bed casually” memes just as much as everyone, but don’t let that diminish the decades of training and dedication he’s put into the sport. Dude has been competing for more than 20 years and first set a world record in a different shooting event in 2006. Shooting is one sport where age isn’t a big disadvantage.
Oh yeah, just act like the stuffed elephant tied to her finger isn’t an advantage…
/s
Apparently it’s her daughter’s elephant.
Interesting!
Thanks for posting this. He looks bad ass and she looks bad ass.
Fuck anyone comparing the two for whatever reason, especially if you actually watch and notice the majority of competitors are wearing the shooting glasses, which is why the guy is unique. Even his teammate (he won a team medal) is wearing special gear. And he’s been doing this for decades!! He was at 2008 Olympics
Ugh. All I see is misogyny in this.
The korean shooter Yeji Kim became a (positive) meme first for her cyberpunk aesthetics, which many people found cool. Shortly after the turkish shooter Yusuf Dikeç also became a meme for his own, very different aesthetic.
Also there is a bunch of other memes in circulation that compare the turkish shooter with various other people, e.g. https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/873/956/0f7.png
Just because you are comparing a woman and a man does not make it misogyny. This is basically just a crossover of two recent memes.
I’m not the one making the comparison. This post is… It names her in the description. I’m not talking about other posts. I’m talking about this one.
I’m saying the post could have been “this bad ass from Turkey came with no specialized gear and took home silver!” Or even “vs All the other teams decked out in gear!” Not singling out “South Korea sent this knitted out player” when she was wearing what the vast majority were.
She and her partner also won gold and silver. There was a more positive way to make them both sound awesome, not making him sound like he’s better than her by comparison because he does it without gear
I talked about the other posts to provide context. These are not unknown people and she is not the only one who gets compared to the turkish shooter.
The poster likely chose the korean shooter as counterpart, because she already garnered attention beforehand for her aesthetic. She is already relatively famous, so I don’t think it is surprising if somebody chose (and named) her over other, less known athletes. The poster also described her as “record-breaking” in the description, so I do not think it was the intention to make her look bad.
(no magnification is allowed)
What would a person do who needs prescription glasses? Put me there with ±0 glasses, and I’d be just a threat to the environment, because I had a hard time to know where I’m roughly pointing that thing…
Prescription glasses are allowed - both competitors are wearing them. Those lens can correct for short sightedness, astigmatism etc, but they’re the exact same lens you find in eyeglasses. I used to wear these - I bought the shooting glasses off the shelf (or rather our club got them in bulk for us), then to get the lens made, I went to the exact same optical store where I got my prescription glasses made and basically told them to just order one lens for my right eye.
What I meant by magnification was, you can’t put optics on it so it works like a 2x scope. So the lens can make stuff look less blurry but not make it look bigger.
If they don’t magnify why do they make people’s eyes look bigger
Well, then I guess they wouldn’t be allowed to wear them backwards.
Glasses actually make everything we see smaller, though the effect is lessened the closer the glasses are to the correct distance from our eyes. And the reason glasses change the perceived size of the wearers’ eyes is because they specifically are bending light to change how it hits our eyes.
If the glasses are for someone who is farsighted, they make their eyes look bigger, if they are to correct nearsightedness, they make the eyes look smaller.
And actually, despite what I say in my first sentence, they don’t even make stuff bigger when you wear them backwards. That effect is limited to the distance eyes are away from the lenses normally, beyond that things are actually still smaller even when looking through them backwards. How much smaller depends on how far they are from your eye.
Eyeglasses vs binoculars.
Eyeglasses unblur the world to those who need them, but there’s no magnification.
Look through binoculars and things look a lot closer because of the magnification. But you can also make it look blurry if you turn the adjustment the wrong way.
Lose.
Those air rifle outfits look like bad anime cosplay.
Dude looks like some random Joe walking into the stadium and taking some shots before wandering off to the next pub. I love it.
Went to pub after with his silver.
Legit, the guy reminds me of my grandfather teaching us punk kids to shoot. Just utterly casual, but with decades of competition and practical shooting experience behind being able to be casual and smooth with whatever gear he had on hand.
We went camping the first time me and my next oldest cousin were expressing an interest. It was air rifles and air pistols that first time. My grandfather sets things up, takes the air pistol, assumes the same stance as this guy on the pic and drops a group so tight it was one small hole. No prep, no thinking, just a lifetime of practice.
I’m all enthusiastic, get my turn, and miss the entire target lol. Not a single pellet hit. But boy, was I imitating my grandfather. I thought so anyway lol.
Turkish guy has 10/10 “dad with niche hobby” vibes lol
I want them to be in a buddy cop movie together. The young tech assassin and old no nonsense cop.
I like her little elephant plushie
I believe it’s her daughter’s!
Aw I nearly missed that, thanks 👍
It’s an important piece of Olympic sports gear the likes of which peasants cannot comprehend
Important note, he had ear protection. Deeply seated ear plugs (as they should be) visible in photos looking from the side.
The event is air pistols, which are way less loud than bang bangs. So regarding hearing protection, who knows.
who knows
We know. Everyone knows. The ear plugs are visible in many photos/video clips
This is cool but no ear protection is not. Guns make you deaf, just like motorcycles.
These are air pistols which shoot pellets propelled by compressed air, not your usual guns. They make a moderately loud pop, but nothing like gunpowder - you can stand behind someone firing and have a normal conversation.
That said the guy is wearing earplugs - more for concentration and to block out crowd noise than anything
Ah earplugs are cool and that totally counts as ear protection. It’s what I use anyway when I go to the shooting range or ride my ninja 650.
Couldn’t make out that it was an air gun from just the photo.
yeah, they just meant no “specialized” ear protection. I’m guessing korea had some equally crazy ear gear to match the 90s hacker assassin glasses.
Compressed air is surprisingly loud, even if it doesn’t sound loud, it can still damage your hearing
No, these guns are not. They make very little noise. It’s louder the sound of the target being hit. Source: I have practiced this sport.
Fair enough!
Motorcycles are deaf?
Only the ones that play with guns
WHAT? I CAN’T HEAR YOU
Found the motorcycle.
Are those “real” pistols, or air pistols? Because the latter should make you deaf. So.eone else commented, they’d not use it for protection but to focus and reduce distractions from the audience and other sounds
important: the gold medalist for women’s shooting (who is also south korean) looks like she took the shot right before running to class with toast in her mouth
Tag still on th glasses /s
I didn’t know that John Oliver was from Turkeyiye!
That’s clearly Pedro Pascal. Had no idea he was Turkish though
This guy practiced on beer cans back home
This guy practiced on beer cans back home
Probably bull’s-eyes womp rats in his T16.
If you’ve ever been to turkiye it’s more likely balloons.
His name is Yusuf Dikeç
Oha lan! It’s the Turkish Revolver Ocelot.
Revolver Tabbycat
I think they are both rocking it!
Lady looking hard as hell in her posh jacket and hat, as she bullseyes with the professional acumen of a trained killer.
Dude looking like he rolled out of bed, on that daily grind, going to win a medal and then grab some coffee, kiss the wife, and mow the yard.
The definition of the two genders.
This man is my hero for the day.
