CHRIS PAPWORTH
I’m an experienced Coaching Professional who can help shape your perspective into a healthy and productive one. Whether it’s your clay sporting shooting, game shooting or gun fit I’ll help you develop the habits and skills to effectively deal with the challenges and emotional moments you may encounter along the way.
MY STORY
I grew up in a small village North of London, where I have been strongly Influenced by my Father, Martin, who is a previous English and British Open Champion and my Mum, Sonia was always behind the scenes cheering me on. Firstly I was introduced to shooting at 8 years old, where I would go and support my father at competitions all over the UK. Not long after, I took up air rifle shooting down at my local club - then aged 12 moved on to clay shooting using a 20 gauge auto. It was this father-son activity that revealed my talent and soon turned towards competitive shooting. After many hours of relentless coaching from my dad, I went on to win many competitions as a junior and began giving others tuition from the age of 18. It really is a true natural passion I have developed for the sport and for winning.
I started with skeet and soon progressed to other disciplines, I found that I enjoyed more of a variety of targets and wanted to follow in my father’s footsteps with sporting and FITASC disciplines. Focusing on these disciplines helped me continuously improve and build on my passion for the sport.
In 2014 my wife Kath, and I decided to move to Canada, to explore more of the world and experience competitions 'over the pond'. I currently have competed in many Canadian competitions taking HOA at numerous events, including the BC Challenge, BC provincial, Canadian open, Federal 400 and the Perazzi Cup.
ACHIEVEMENTS
BRITISH,UK AND ENGLISH CHAMPIONSHIPS
7
Chris has won many titles coming up through the juniors in the UK and into the open class.
GREAT BRITAIN AND ENGLAND TEAM MEMBER
12
Chris has qualified for both England and Great Britain teams multiple times and competed for both the junior and senior teams all across the world.
INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
7
Chris has won various international events across Europe and north America including gold in the European Cup.
"It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters."
Paul “Bear” Bryant
