Michelle Smith

English, British and European rifle champion Commonwealth Silver Medalist

Recent News

Pre-Event Training (someone is happy now!!!)

February 24th, 2010 by

Hi Mike here again with another update for you……………….. At last some proper training – pre-event training prone and she has managed to more than treble her shot count.  After a bit of sorting out of what she is going to able to wear on her left foot and whether or not she could use [...]

My Day Off with a little Pre-event Training Attached

January 28th, 2010 by

Thursday and its my day off so a good lie in is in order… yeah right! When on trips abroad it is important to me that I am as considerate as possible to the rest of my team..  by doing this I like to think that it sets the example and that the other people [...]

Munich – Training Day

January 27th, 2010 by

Today we’ve had a nice late start followed by training in the afternoon.  As the range was quiet full I decided to go through equipment control.  Its always nice to see some friendly faces especially on the side of the Jury!  As I had gone down the range in my boots and left my trainers [...]

This week, I’ve been mostly…. training!

January 24th, 2010 by

This week I have been trying to work on perfecting my air rifle process and visualisations for Munich.    I’m finding that I am  getting just a little bit sloppy with the visualisations but have been working on placing a “trigger object” on the firing point to remind me why I am there and what I [...]

Gym Access

January 19th, 2010 by

I’ve managed to get mine and Mikey’s free access to the Mountbatten Centre in Portsmouth thanks to the Hampshire Talented Athlete Scheme.  It’s great to get back in the gym though its not much fun when I’m there on my own but I get by this just by thinking “what would Kenny and Pickle be [...]

First day back, More training and comp cards to do!

January 17th, 2010 by

Had to finish shooting the first stage of the ELEY competition today – the prone had already been shot in an earlier session so today was an S&K day!  I did the standing and managed to shoot quite well taking on board the lessons learned in Hannover.  Mikey was impressed and so was I.  It’s [...]

Friday in Hannover

January 15th, 2010 by

As the rest of the team has already left to attend the royal league matches in Olso leaving only me, Kenny and Pickle left for today’s training.   I stared the morning with bit of kneeling training and followed it by air in the afternoon.   Again frustrations were creeping in with kneeling and trying to get [...]

Hello from snowy Hannover

January 11th, 2010 by

Hey guys As the title says i’m now in Hanover for a week of indoor training. This is only a quick blog post as its 12 midnight and we are up for a “warm up” for 7 am. So here goes: We arrived safe and sound at Hanover aiport on Sunday night after a nice [...]

More fun in the snow

January 8th, 2010 by

So it snowed the other day and there is still at least 3 inches everywhere except for where its been cleared for the roads etc Still me and Mike managed to get to the range yesterday and had a good evening training. Still doing tweaks to the new air rifle and solved 2 issues I [...]

Snow, Snow, Snow

January 5th, 2010 by

Been to the range already today to start shooting with my new air rifle which arrived yesterday.  Made a few tweaks and was happy with the performances.