We've been promoting IPSC and claypigeon shooting ever since we started at the new range at Marina Durga. Of primary importance to us is to boost interest in shooting from familymembers of our very own members. In particular, we are trying to gain the interest of their spouses, because there is an imbalance in the force, particularly in the gender department.

It's the age old problem of men: WE NEED MORE WOMEN!.. (to join us in shooting, that is)

Now, because dear hubby or daddy or uncle or whomever should already have a pistol, there's no additional costs needed to purchase one. Ladies, here's your chance to see what the fuzz is all about. To further encourage this, we will provide a one-time reduced yearly membership fee for members' spouses and their (adult) children. And no, it doesn't get cheaper for the second or third spouse.. Those who show talent and promise may be granted the possibility to purchase a clubpistol for sporting purposes.

If you are interested, please register your name with Mr. H. Sewdien. You will be given an application form and depending on the interest, we'd like to start a novice introductory/training program.

CLARIFICATION STATEMENT
ON RECENT TEAM SVS PARTICIPATION IN ST.LUCIA


Team SVS hereby states the following:
-Team SVS has never received an invitation, in any way, shape or form, from IPSC Suriname, or any of its representatives, to take part in or join a national team to be sent to St. Lucia. We challenge IPSC Suriname to prove otherwise.

-Team SVS has directly received a separate invitation to participate from the Regional Director of IPSC St. Lucia.

-IPSC Suriname has repeatedly included the names of Team SVS shooters Mark Jie and Rabien Chotkan, in its media coverage, both before and after the event, as being part of their team, and has named and thanked specific sponsors for their financial donations, to make participation of the team in St. Lucia possible.

- Team SVS shooters Mark Jie and Rabien Chotkan have not received a single cent of sponsorship for their participation from aforementioned IPSC Suriname sponsors.

-We therefore find statements in IPSC Suriname media coverage that name Mark Jie and Rabien Chotkan as being part of the sponsored national team to be misleading.

-We re-emphasize our appreciation of IPSC Suriname’s Chef de Mission for his assistance to our team members, and thank the members of the national team for their camaraderie at the St. Lucia match.

-We congratulate the IPSC Suriname team on their fine performance, and underscore that cooperation between the two separate teams of Suriname has lead to winning the overall team championship for our country.

-Camaraderie and assistance do not in any way, shape or form, change the fundamental fact however, that Team SVS shooters Mark Jie and Rabien Chotkan have formed a separate entry into the recent St. Lucia shooting event, as they have not been invited, much less sponsored, for their participation, by IPSC Suriname.


April 19th 2008,

Serge Tjin Wong Joe,
SVS Teamcaptain.

Hi everyone. Mark & Rabien (pronounce as: raybian) ARE BACK from St.Lucia!! Yeahbaby.. For those of you who weren't there, yesterday night we rented a bus to pick them up from the airport with a large delegation in SVS shirts and stuff. The party continued afterwards in Restaurant Jawa (pics of everything should be put online as soon as possible). We had great fun listening to their stories and experiences in St.Lucia.

Although, there were some disturbing things you hear about the boys staying in the GAY garden hotel, winning a bottle of Mount GAY rum, etc. But we don't care, cause they've WON and most importantly, they've had great fun. So, as they say: what happened in St.Lucia, better STAY in St.Lucia .

Particularly the "limin' with the Badians" stories are always welcome to hear. Barbadians are tons of fun. Literally . Can't wait to see those guys back here again for the annual shooting. Too bad we couldn't be in St.Lucia with a larger delegation, I know a lot of us would've wanted to be there. Maybe next time.. BTW, anyone have a picture of "St.Mike"? hahaha

Finally we'd like to thank the SLSA for their hospitality and commend them on organising such a tournament. Shoot safe everyone.

It's official! Our one and only Mark Jie Tjoe Foek has won the 8th Annual Independence Tournament of the Saint Lucia Shooting Association. Again, as they say in Restaurant Jawa:

MARKY MARKY! HE'S OUR MAN, IF HE CAN'T DO IT NO-ONE CAN

YESSS!!!!! We are so proud of him! His momma too, of course This year's been especially tough for our gunclub. We've had a slow start, been boycotted, and an incident at the range. But fuggeddaboutit, cause these guys have made us and the entire nation proud! Thank you, Mark & Rabien!

We've been following the progress with great aniticipation with limited communication. After day two, we heard that Mark was just 1 point behind Desmond... Then rumours came in that he may have won the tournament after day three And finally, it was official!!! WE LOVE YOU, MARKY!!! In the least gayest sense of the word love, that is

We love you too, Rabien

The top 4:
1. Mark Jie (SURINAME)
2. Desmond Chang (Suriname SSF)
3. Some guy from Martinique
4. Rodney Clarke from Barbados

Congrats guys If we get more detailed results and scores we'll be sure to post it here, so keep watching.

For those of you that haven't heard, Mark Jie & Rabien Chotkan (our dynamic duo) are in St Lucia right now for the 8th Annual Independence Tournament of the Saint Lucia Shooting Association. They'll be defending god & country, their dignity and their gunclub's GO SVS!!
Or as they say in restaurant Jawa:

Mark & Rabien, they're the men, if they can't do it no-one can

We wish them all the luck in the world and hopefully they'll be bringing back some trophees as well. The latest news is that the boys from Suriname aren't doing all that bad. After day one, Desmond (SSF) is now first and Mark second. Rabien had a bit of bad luck and that put him out of the top 10 after day one. Hopefully he can recover in the next few days. Quite a few Surinamese shooters in the top ten though. That's great news. We will keep you posted on the updates. If you want to congratulate them, you can find them at the ahem... Gay Gardens Hotel in St Lucia .

We've finally gotten our medals from some of the SSF shoots from last year. It's been that long I forgot the tournaments' names. Anyway, there was the SSF 'Nationals 2007' and another one. I might get back to you on the name of the other one, but it was the one with the guys from Barbados. Then again, I'm feeling lazy today, so feel free to check the reports in the archives if you're interested. Anyway, I know for one that our PD guys have been waiting much longer than anticipated to get their trophees and medals. So congrats guys, well deserved. Your mommas and we are so proud of you guys. Especially Rabien, (Rabien Rabien he's our man, if he can't do it, no one can ), with 2 number ONE prizes in production division.

Disappointingly the trophees for the Production Division for the 'Barbados Shoot' were nowhere near the size of the ones for Standard Division, as was promised last year. Oh well, guess those people tend to forget things after a while too.. For those of you who've missed out on the belated 'SSF award ceremony' (if you can't tell, yes I'm being sarcastic here), here are some pics of the trophees and medals that our boys in PD have gathered along with some additional delayed prices from the SSF shoots last year. Enjoy!

Ok, for those who haven't heard, the IPSC practice is now officially moved back to each wednesday of the week instead of the tuesdays. This is done to more evenly distribute the gunpowder intake during the week. Some of us were already showing signs of being deprived of gunsmoke by as early as the thursdays of each week. There are methods to counter this of course:

Hello everybody,
Just thought I'd post a hello, cause it's been a while now. Not much excitement going on these days, other than people getting strangely excited over valentine and chinese new year. Me, I guess I'm just excited about some dang equipment that's just taking WAY TOO LONG TO FINALLY ARRIVE IN MY ARMS for me to cuddle and hold, forever and ever till death do us part.. uh.. excuse me, I was thinking aloud again.

What a start of a new shooting year 2008! We've had some serious fun last weekend at the ranges of the SVS at Marina Durga. We should be doing these speedshoot thingies more often . Anyway, we had a little delay on Saturday due to pesky weather of the aquatic kind. However, we managed to start and finish on time. The participation of shooters from the other gunclubs was to say the least a bit disappointing. Guess not everyone's as triggercrazed as we are .

Hello, it's a good day for shooting, be it live or dryfire. So here are the stages for the SVS Open Speedshoot 2008, with the apologies of our Match Director for we are a little behind on schedule with the stages. We had to evaluate some safety issues. We know it's a bit soon after the holidays and we've all been deprived of good practice, but hey, it builds character . Anyway, it's still much faster than on some other matches I personally know where you get the stages one day prior to the match ...