The Shot-Gun Touch (ショットガンタッチ), also stylized as Shot Gun Touch and Shot-Gun-Touch, was the final event introduced in the first Celebrity Survival Battle in the 1st Celebrity Sportsman No. 1 and has been a notable Sportsman and SpoDan event ever since, appearing in most appearances as the final event.
The objective is simple. Competitors must press a button, which drops the volleyball ball onto a mat with a target circle around 10 metres above and must sprint towards the end of the mat and touch the ball before it hits the target. In the event that the athlete misses the button, it will be counted as a miss. If the competitors miss, they will be provided a second attempt unless specified otherwise.
In the case where it is hard to immediately determine if competitors clear the distance, a device called "Ultra Slow 6000" is used to slow down the attempt and make a precise judgment.
The rules vary based on the type of tournament. In Pro Sportsman Tournaments, competitors typically start at 11m 00cm, and all competitors will generally attempt the same distances. Competitors will continue until they either fail twice or are the last ones left. If there is only one competitor left, they can choose the distance by self-declaration, which allows them to save their physical strength and challenge the world record, or declare the distance necessary for the overall No. 1. In Celebrity Survival Battles, each competitor writes down the distance according to their own preferences and place them in a ballot box, with three attempts each. The running order on each round would change based on the current overall points where the competitor that has the least amount of points would go first. During the competitor's third attempt, instead of writing down the distance, they would verbally declare their distance once it is their turn to attempt the event. The event will end once every competitor exhausts all of their attempts. Later, a brand new rule was established in Sports Danshi Grand Prix, which is somewhat brutal as a single failure results in elimination, ending said competitor's attempt that leaves no room for error unless otherwise specified. Based on the current overall points, the competitor that has the most amount of points would go first by declaring the distance that would be used as a benchmark. Depends on the competition, a successful benchmark distance either have points being awarded or none at all. Unlike in Survival Battles, the running order mostly would stay the same as the competitor that has the most amount of points would always go first based on the current overall points. After each attempt, the distance each competitor would attempt relies on the competitor that has the most amount of points based on the current overall points, attempting to earn enough points to overtake said competitor in order to win the event and/or the competition. As such, the total number of attempts would always depends on the distance declared and in theory may last forever so long as multiple competitors kept clearing continuously.
This event would mostly be assigned as the final event for most Sportsman competitions. However, winning this event doesn't necessarily mean that the competitor wins the entire tournament, as there have been multiple instances where it happened especially in Celebrity Survival Battles. The most notable instance took place on the 8th Celebrity Sportsman No. 1 in which Kane Kosugi managed to become No. 1 of the event by clearing 13m 00cm, but Shōei would win the entire tournament, when he managed to beat Kosugi by just one point by clearing 12m 30cm, where he managed to hit the ball with only his pinky finger. In addition, due to the rule aforementioned, a bizarre instance happened in Sports Danshi Grand Prix 5 as Sano Gaku has won the tournament and the event by earning no points whatsoever, simply by clearing 12m 00cm while his opponents failed to clear their required distance.
The World Record for the farthest distance of Shot-Gun Touch cleared stands at 13m 60cm which is held by Aoki Norichika and Nagai Kensuke in 2006 and 2017, with Aoki following the Pro Sportsman ruleset and Nagai following the Sports Danshi ruleset. Meanwhile, the Celebrity Record stands at 13m 10cm, achieved by Kane Kosugi in 2001.
This event would appear in thirteen Pro Sportsman Tournaments and seventeen Celebrity Survival Battles, and one Amateur Sportsman Tournament. This would also become one of the few Sportsman events that appeared in Sports Danshi Grand Prix.
Event Winners[]
| Tournament | Title | Battle | Winner | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sportsman No.1 (1993 - 2010) | ||||
| VI | 1st Celebrity Sportsman No. 1 | Final (5) | Shima Daisuke | 11m 10cm |
| VII | 3rd Amateur Sportsman No. 1 | 3 | Mark Crear | 12m 60cm |
| VIII | Pro Sportsman No. 1 1997 | 4 | Matsui Kazuo | 13m 00cm |
| IX | 2nd Celebrity Sportsman No. 1 | Final (5) | Kane Kosugi | 11m 50cm |
| X | Pro Sportsman No. 1 1998 | Final (8) | Ogata Koichi | 13m 20cm |
| XI | 3rd Celebrity Sportsman No. 1 | Final (7) | Kane Kosugi | 12m 00cm |
| XII | 4th Celebrity Sportsman No. 1 | Final (7) | Kane Kosugi | 11m 80cm |
| XIII | Pro Sportsman No. 1 1999 | Final (7) | Iida Tetsuya | 13m 30cm |
| XIV | 5th Celebrity Sportsman No. 1 | Final (6) | Kane Kosugi | 12m 40cm |
| XV | Pro Sportsman No. 1 2000 | Final (7) | Kane Kosugi, Iida Tetsuya, and Iwamura Akinori | 12m 90cm |
| XVI | 6th Celebrity Sportsman No. 1 | Final (6) | Kane Kosugi | 12m 30cm |
| XVII | 7th Celebrity Sportsman No. 1 | Final (6) | Kane Kosugi and Shōei | 12m 00cm |
| XVIII | Pro Sportsman No. 1 2001 | Final (8) | Ohata Daisuke | 13m 40cm |
| XIX | 8th Celebrity Sportsman No. 1 | Final (6) | Kane Kosugi | 13m 00cm |
| XX | Pro Sportsman No. 1 2002 | Final (8) | Ohata Daisuke | 13m 50cm |
| XXII | 10th Celebrity Sportsman No. 1 | Final (6) | Nagai Masaru | 12m 50cm |
| XXIII | Pro Sportsman No. 1 2003 | Final (8) | Ohata Daisuke | 12m 80cm |
| XXIV | 11th Celebrity Sportsman No. 1 | Final (6) | Nagai Masaru | 12m 70cm |
| XXV | 12th Celebrity Sportsman No. 1 | Final (7) | Nakayama Kinnikun and Shirakawa Yujiro | 12m 00cm |
| XXVI | Pro Sportsman No. 1 2004 | Final (8) | Satomi Kohei | 13m 00cm |
| XXVII | 13th Celebrity Sportsman No. 1 | Final (7) | Iketani Naoki | 12m 30cm |
| XXVIII | Pro Sportsman No. 1 2005 | Final (8) | Iketani Naoki and Scott Posednik | 12m 90cm |
| XXIX | 14th Celebrity Sportsman No. 1 | Final (6) | Iketani Naoki | 12m 50cm |
| XXXI | Pro Sportsman No. 1 2006 | Final (6) | Aoki Norichika | 13m 60cm |
| XXXII | 16th Celebrity Sportsman No. 1 | Final (6) | Nakayama Kinnikun | 12m 40cm |
| XXXIII | 17th Celebrity Sportsman No. 1 | Final (5) | Iketani Naoki | 12m 60cm |
| XXXIV | Pro Sportsman No. 1 2007 | Final (7) | Akada Shogo and Kinoshita Noriaki | 13m 30cm |
| XXXV | CB Celebrity Sportsman No. 1 | Final (5) | Shirai Ryo | 12m 30cm |
| XXXVI | 18th Celebrity Sportsman No. 1 | Final (5) | Wakky | 12m 20cm |
| XXXVII | Pro Sportsman No. 1 2008 | Final (7) | Iihara Yasushi and Rajai Davis | 13m 00cm |
| XXXVIII | Pro Sportsman No. 1 2009 | Final (6) | Koroki Shinzo | 12m 90cm |
| Sports Danshi Grand Prix (2012 - 2024) | ||||
| N/A | Sports Danshi Grand Prix 1 | Final (5) | Sano Gaku | 12m 00cm |
| Sports Danshi Grand Prix 2 | Final (6) | Sano Gaku | 12m 10cm | |
| Sports Danshi Grand Prix 3 | Final (6) | Sano Gaku | 12m 70cm | |
| Sports Danshi Grand Prix 4 | Final (6) | Sekiguchi Mandy | 12m 00cm | |
| Sports Danshi Grand Prix 5 | Final (6) | Sano Gaku | 12m 00cm | |
| Sports Danshi Grand Prix 6 | Final (6) | Sano Gaku | 12m 30cm | |
| Sports Danshi Grand Prix 7 | Final (4) | Sano Gaku | 12m 30cm | |
| Sports Danshi Grand Prix 8 | Final (5) | Nomura Yuki | 12m 70cm | |
| Sports Danshi Grand Prix 9 | Final (5) | Nomura Yuki | 11m 80cm | |
| Sports Danshi Grand Prix 10 | Solo Event | Nagai Kensuke | 13m 20cm | |
| Sports Danshi Grand Prix 11 | Final (6) | Mori Wataru | 12m 20cm | |
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