Rifle Spinning National Champion 1996, Exhibition Drill Solo, Keith Warren

April 27, 1996 @ 1:08 pm

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Exhibition Drill
• Rifle Spinning
• National Champion

[Koenig42]

I find it interesting that even though Fern Creek has their own way of continuous spinning, you do it in the sling-side fashion.

[keithwarren7]

Always a feel thing for me, I got used to the rythmn of feeling the sling then the rifle a split second later. Habit I guess.

[davidbuckq]

Btw, used Springfields in HS but in college we drilled with M14s+bayonet. Didn't do drill team - 4 years was just about enough of that. Anyway, I was going to make a point. Oh yeah.

I'm sure thousands of hours over 4 years with the Springfield had biased my muscle memory a bit, but I found the M14 FAR more difficult to do anything fancy with. The shape and the balance were just.... not right at all to me. If anyone else who has used a 1903 and an M14 ever reads this, which did you prefer?

[keithwarren7]

I have used 03, m14 and m1 and still find the M14 to be the most difficult to work with although I dont think it is as difficult as our perceptions make it out to be. The biggest difference is balance/weight distribution. In the end it is still my fav for one reason though - sound.

[davidbuckq]

Didn't really watch any other solo routines when my team went in 97, but being nationals level and having had a near drop I wasn't overly disappointed by 15th. Suffice it to say: if the top placers had half as much bearing and precision doing similarly difficult techniques then they beat me even without the mistake. Also, if wearing military dress gloves isn't worth bonus points, it should be. Our team wore them for exhibition - but solo? No way. Rifle would wind up in pieces. Nice job!

[keithwarren7]

Thank you.

[MrZerostudio]

im in jrotc too and im in drill exhibition solo

[cerberus31782]

I'm in a njrotc and I'm already in armed varsity

[cerberus31782]

Hey do u live in humble,tx

[RearAdmirel]

HOORAH Fern Creek.