Monday, July 26, 2004
Rama: An intense day at the CPRA
By KARLON N. RAMA
STAGE FIVE
THE Cebu Pistol and Rifle Association (CPRA) held its regular clubshoot yesterday and the only apt description for the com-petition’s non-stop action is – intense.
Over 97 shooters, some coming from Ormoc, Leyte and Iligan, went before the firing line in the five-division competition that, requiring almost 200 rounds to compete, featured battles in 10 stages and a two-stage rifle event.
Squads representing the different divisions of the Cebu City Police Office, all trained at the CPRA as part of the club’s community service program, also joined the competition that was overseen by Range Master Jerome Lim and the CPRA staff.
GOOD WORK. I assisted Range Officer Ramon Vidal in Stage 3 of the competition and, from where I stand, many of the Cebu City police officers who joined the event performed well.
Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña’s policy emphasis on marksmanship training is really paying off.
The policemen who saw action yesterday were leaps and bounds better than they were in February of last year when the mayor, flustered over the shooting to death of SPO2 Roman Lucero, mandated a police department-wide marksmanship re-training and evaluation and threatened to recall the firearms of those who’d fail, replacing them with nightsticks.
City Hall is subsidizing for their training at the CPRA. Whatever the cost, I’m sure the mayor, an avid shooter himself, considers this a fair cost of feeling secure over the capabilities of the local police.
But civilians still clinched the top spots in yesterday’s event.
CPRA shooters, for example, dominated the Open Division with teammates Bryant Yu and Dino Cinco clinching the top two spots. Yu took Stages 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10, while Cinco got Stages 2, 3, 7 and 9.
Fellow CPRA shooter Alex Jo topped Stage 1 but had to settle for seventh place, next to Inno Solon of Dumaguete City, who placed third, and the father-and-son team of Jack and Justine Chua, who placed fifth and fourth, respectively.
In the Modified division, it was Vic Jarina, also of the CPRA, on top, garnering a total of 829.84 match points. At a distant second was Supt. Art Evangelista of the PNP Airport Security Group with 369.41 match points.
In the Standard division, CPRA’s Roger Uy showed dominance in the event that was joined by 50 shooters. Nogie Biagan of the Casey Gun Club placed a close second with 727.74 match points against Uy’s 740.16.
Caloy Antiligando placed third, followed by Yogi Javier, Maj Abner Marañon, CPRA’s Bob Kahler, Glenn Diaz, Manuel “Awit” Tan, the current Philippine Practical Shooting Association area director for the Visayas, who was recently appointed City Hall consultant on traffic management, Tony Ting and Tad Espiritu.
FIRST ONE. Yesterday’s competition was the first one I attended in many weeks. Some other event brought me away from Cebu recently.
I basked in the sun over Panglao Island, Bohol, a couple of days back to give a team-building training for Globe Telecom’s Wireless Business Group.
Together with colleagues from the Healing Home Center for Humanistic Services and Funspots Inc., an adventure-race organizer, we had seminar participants huffing in land, racing over water and rappelling down a church bell tower, all in the name of winning.
Headed by Vince Ong, Globe’s regional operations manager for the Visayas and Mindanao, almost 50 of the firm’s senior supervisors and managers from six divisions took on the Adventure Teambuilding Challenge that, at closing, had them committing to self-imposed goals that would facilitate the realization of the communication giant’s own corporate targets.
The challenge fused together the modern sport disciplines of the triathlon and adventure racing, as well as the principles of social psychology and organizational development in a comprehensive teambuilding training program.
The challenge involved swimming, running, trekking with the use of map and compass, shooting, biking, kayaking in open water, and rappelling with rope and harness. They also had to undergo two “psy-op” scenarios.
Drawing the direct experiences of the participants from each of the physical challenges, facilitators led guided discussions on topics of leadership, communication and organization in the backdrop of existing work scenarios.
(e-mail:knrama@ sunstar. com.ph)
(July 26, 2004 issue)
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