International Defensive Pistol Association

So like I don't do hard stage designs until I'm on the ground at any range a given year because props availability changes, what areas of the range we can use can change like the day of based on like some random local restriction what targets are available can change what I do have in my head is what sort of skills I want to test in totality at the match right so like I know I want to have like for example weak hand pistol shooting be part of a stage it's just where am I slotting that in to the stage I know for example like I'm going to require like shooting off a rooftop it's just like where are we positioning that on the stage so it's like I have over two decades of stages in my head and it's just picking those elements from a stage and assembling them into the particular range I'm working at at that moment.

Yeah, and I think that's something that goes unrecognized even in a lot of other legacy shooting sports like USPSA and IDPA.

Being a stage designer is actually pretty difficult unless you're a regular at that range and you're used to seeing the same bays every day.

You basically have to travel the country and survey the land and figure out what you're going to do.

I mean, I've done a lot of silly props that feel stupid.

I've dealt with, and then you get into the game of, uh, how to set that up so that it isn't game to a point of being because yeah there was one at um one of the nationals where you had to like get a teddy bear and put it into a box it at the end of the stage to activate blah blah blah well dudes would just jam it into their between their mag pouches and then just shoot free freehand only and you're like okay like i I don't want to be IDPA, but sometimes just fucking, hey, here's what you have to do.

You got to carry the thing in your weak hand and shoot with your strong hand.

That's it.

Back in the day, I discovered two methods of competition, and I'm not sure how tightly it's controlled in California.

But one of them is called IDPA, International Defensive Pistol Association.

The other one is called USPS, United States Practical Shooting Association, USPCSA.

Look into both of them.

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Nice.

And what is it, IDPA,

IPSC? Yeah, IDPA, IPSC, all that kind of stuff, yeah.

Two gun, three gun, you know,

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