Who are British Shooting?
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PhilR
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They are a quango. Formerly known as Great Britain Target Shooting Federation and before that the Joint Shooting Council. The ISSF and Olympic Organising C'ttee will only deal with one national shooting body so the JSC was set up in the 60's and their successors to overarch the governing bodies BICTSF (clayshooting) and NSRA (small bore rifle and pistol), NRA (full bore rifle) other federations also have/had seats on GBTSF such as the CPSA, Muzzleloaders, English Target Federation and national bodies for other home countries.
Funding from UK Sport under various previous names used to be provided via GBTSF to BICTSF, NRA and NSRA for GB teams, coaching and a limited amount of administration. However, in 2005 UK Sport chose to stop funding the above recipients and therefore the GB teams, which they called participation.
From then on they'd concentrate on 'elite' shooters purely in Olympic disciplines, so performance only based. The funding went only to GBTSF and a new World Class programme. Performance Directors, National Coaches and support staff in all disciplines were employed. Certainly in clay shooting we ended up with two tier GB teams - the 'haves' who were World Class funded and the 'have nots' who were paid for by BICTSF. Needless to say this did nothing for team harmony.
After the 2008 Olympic Games in order for shooting to meet the requirements of UK Sport and funding they required governing bodies to reorganise and GBTSF and the World Class programme morphed into British Shooting. Lots of 'professional' staff employed, outnumbering the athletes, as shooters are now called, all to fit the UK Sport template.
However, British Shooting in the beginning weren't actually in control of team selection, as in the case of clay shooting BICTSF selected the teams from their selection shoots using the first past the post system so teams were basically self selecting using this transparent system. British Shooting wanted control and use a squad system whereby teams are hand picked. This obviously leads to thoughts of favouritism for certain individuals getting in teams. In the last couple of years BICTSF has fought several exceedingly expensive court cases to prevent their exclusion from the selection of GB teams to no avail.
There are thoughts that if GB don't win any Quota Places for the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2020 then funding for British Shooting will be withdrawn and the expensive empire will crumble with the pieces being picked up by BICTSF.
Thankfully British Shooting have no designs on building their empire further by taking over the FITASC disciplines.
I hope this gives you the general background. I was involved in BICTSF from 1990 until I resigned in 2009. Originally as a discipline rep for Universal Trench and then all executive roles finally Treasurer and President.
schmokinn
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Mostly foreigners? :angel:
Unless you live in London!
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Unless you live in London!
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paul b
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GB already have 2 quota places for 2020
paul b
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Not shotgun , british shooting encompasses rifle pistol and shotgun including para.senaid macintosh and matt skehlon have both secured quota places for GB.
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Ah ok. Same as the danish shooting federation then.
Just assumed we talked about shotgun discipline due to this forum. Apperently we have the same issues with our federation (they are very focused on the "bullet" disciplines) sometimes I have the impression that the shotgun disciplines are a rare curiosity to the elite department of the federation.
Lars
Just assumed we talked about shotgun discipline due to this forum. Apperently we have the same issues with our federation (they are very focused on the "bullet" disciplines) sometimes I have the impression that the shotgun disciplines are a rare curiosity to the elite department of the federation.
Lars
