IDPA is changing. The
International Defensive Pistol Association has changed and not for the better. Accompanying this change is the requirement
that current SOs test out on the new rule book.
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| IDPA should be about shooting your best tactics and having fun. |
IDPA has tightened the rules in an effort to eliminate cheating
and level the playing field. This has
lost IDPA the sense of wonderment that came with a sport that let you try out
your tactical skills and compare them to other shooters. The comment “Good tactics!” from an experienced
IDPA shooter meant more than winning first place.
Now it’s about points, power factors, challenging the scores
and rulings and legal dissection of distances, word meanings, management levels,
and being a five gun master.
There was a time when we asked each shooter if they
understood the course of fire and if they didn’t, the safety officer would re-explain
it. Not anymore. That question is not part of the official sanctified
ritual each shooter must go through on the firing line. IDPA doesn’t care if you understand the course
of fire or not. Just get it over so the next
unit shooter can step up.
It makes no sense to me.
I have a person with a loaded gun who’s unsure of what I want them to
do. Don’t you think they deserve a
second explanation of the CoF? According
to the test I just took it’s now about efficiency and moving things along. Too bad about the shooter unit.
In my opinion IDPA is moving toward IPSC/USPSA
type shooting. It’s only a matter of
time before we have major and minor classifications and start awarding style
points for most unusual shooting stance or artistic improvisation of using
cover.
Sour grapes?
No. Maybe,
but I don’t think so. I got a 91 on my
open book test. The test is poorly constructed
with difficult language and frequent use of double negatives. Not to mention discussions of things I’ve
never seen and still don’t understand how they are used. Someone should have told the IPDA Tiger Team
(Gawd, that’s just so 1980ish!) that adult education is about the transfer of
information and not ranking people.
It was a good score but I had help. My wife took the test a few days ago and got 84.3
but she needed an 85 to pass.
In response to this (and before her second attempt) my wife made an index
using an excel spreadsheet and the IDPA rule book. She listed topics and the page they were
found on. When finished she sorted and
combined page numbers to give her (and me) a fast alphabetical guide to where to
find answers.
It takes a little work. If you want to take the IDPA test, spend some
time making your own index. You can
thank me later.
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