There are some days that I enjoy, today’s was one of them. I was in Rome at a shooting range to work with a 14-year-old boy together with the coach of the Fiamme Oro, Pierluigi Pescosolido. Few people know that I have been working with shooting since 1995, and since those days with Italian athletes and with many national teams from other countries. The pandemic had stopped my involvement with shooting. It is good to come back to meet colleagues, friends. with whom one has worked, as in the case of the Fiamme Oro coaches, for twenty years. I know every sigh that a shooter makes when he/she is on the platform, and it is certainly the sport in which I have achieved the most recognition and results in my professional career.
The issue is that in Italy there is no room for this mental work in shooting and it is no coincidence that since 2008 I have always worked with foreign national teams and individually with some of the strongest Italian shooters in the world, such as Giovanni Pellielo and Francesco D’Aniello. On the other hand, coaches live the same situation and the best ones work with foreign national teams. There is a lack of sport culture to develop top level athletes, it is an expensive sport totally on the shoulders of families and with few coaches able to propose programs of excellence.
Top-level sport requires investment in professionals and, at least, shooting so far has not taken this path.
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