new delhi ace shooter manu bhaker is spending the lockdown days at her village home in goria jhajjar manus father ramkishen bhaker recently got an electronic target system installed at the makeshift shooting range in their village homethe old machine was an archaic manual machine prone to frequent breakdowns and was causing her immense irritationdelighted by the reboot in her training the teenaged star has started preparing for the tokyo olympics with renewed vigour and optimism at the olympics she is likely to take part in the 10m womens air pistol and 10m air pistol team eventspractice is going on in full swing the new electronic target system is used at issfsupervised competitions there is not even one percent of laxity on my part manu told toi in an exclusive interaction from goria there should be some competition though she added quicklymanu vouched for online shooting championships to help olympicbound elite shooters of the country get muchneeded competitionan online shooting championship will definitely help the olympicbound elite shooters i had participated in two competitions before the lockdown it will give us competition and valuable practice the 18yearold saidelaborating on how the online championship can be held manus father said most elite shooters have the electronic target system installed it is linked with a laptop and scores are uploaded real time online there should be a steady internet and the laptop shouldnt malfunctiona legitimate and natural question is what if someone is cheatingin the tournaments that ive taken part in there was monitoring happening actually camera should be installed at the makeshift range manu suggestedher father added online shooting championship is the future it can be organized even better if an app is developed now one person has to keep on recording on ones mobile phone while the shooter is shooting at present the major negative points for an online shooting championship are computer failure or the internet getting disconnected while the competition is onshooting has a realistic chance of opening up its outdoor training facilities sooner than other disciplines as it is a noncontact sport with shooters in possession of their equipment at all times however manu wants no riskdurghatna se der bhali better a delay in opening of the outdoor training facilities than any kind of untoward incident she said when we go to the range we come in contact with miscellaneous things there is a register that needs to be signed that comes in contact with several people there are twothree washrooms at the range lets say 50 shooters are given entry theyll use the washrooms so till the time the threat of the virus is not over it is better to practice at homemanus father feels septemberend would be practical to start training or hold any competition at the shooting ranges june will be the peak of the coronavirus and then there will be a downfall september end seems to be practical for any kind of resumption he specifiedat home manu is utilising the lockdown to go