stormbringer
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- S.W. Ontario
I was curious how many BB instructors we have here?
Hell for that matter lets make a poll out of it for R/Os etc!
Hell for that matter lets make a poll out of it for R/Os etc!
What sort of IPSC shooter/official are you?
- Thread starter stormbringer
- Start date
- Location
- Halifax - NS
I am a RM, RO Inst & MD for more L3s than I can remember...
I wouldn't be any of it if I wasn't a competitor, though.
I wouldn't be any of it if I wasn't a competitor, though.
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Have Followed the Evolution of IPSC As a Sport
Since about 1978 I have participated in IPSC type matches; I took my BB course in 1991 at the Lakehead/Thunder Bay and since then I have competed in turn in all the Divisions except Open on a yearly basis.
In 1997 at the Lakehead/Thunder Bay IPSC League I became an NROI RO and was a Match Director or CRO for about a half dozen Level I Matches which were really "Level II's in disguise" as to the standard expected by the competitors attending. I also officiated at sanctioned Level II Matches at the Lakehead. I continued until 2006 as a NROI RO finishing up my ten year stint with helping to start up the initial 2005 IPSC Matches of the revitalized PF&GA IPSC League.
All this said, from hereon in I am planning to compete on an occasional basis in Revolver, Production and Standard.
I feel my main contribution so far in all the IPSC Matches that I competed in, RO'd or designed as the Match Director what was in many instances a very concentrated effort was this.
It was to encourage any number of other people my age and ability to "just show up and compete or try doing NROI RO work" in IPSC. I did this by "modelling the behavior I expect to appear" ie for NEW shooters of any age or initial ability to try out IPSC, take the BB training and to compete on a sportsmanlike basis.
Indeed for years at the Lakehead I competed in either Production or the Revolver Division when it "finally emerged" in IPSC in an effort to show that you really didnt need fancy equipment or 1000's of dollars to get started in what is all too frequently, is it fair to say, "an IPSC fancy equipment race". Another effort conducted on a very low key basis was to encourage those who are for any number of reasons "mobility challenged" to both take up IPSC and to compete in it. This necessitated making adjustments with stage design so that Everyone could compete on an equal basis once the Match Level I or Level II was in progress.
If you have ever spent hours either spreading gravel so that an Open Class competitor can be pushed around at speed in his/her wheelchair throughout a Level II Course of Fire or making sure all the firing ports in a number of stages will accommodate someone shooting from a wheelchair you will know what I mean eh.
To conclude I do remember the time that one nameless IPSC competitor asked me why I had asked one of the spectators to help out with patching targets or assisting with the logistics at a Match. He/she opined that this competitor "wasnt one of us" because he/she was on the range in a business suit.
Five years later that well dressed spectator was winning awards in the same IPSC League.
In my IPSC roles I tried to be an educator by as I mentioned before, "modelling the behaviour I wished to appear".
Since about 1978 I have participated in IPSC type matches; I took my BB course in 1991 at the Lakehead/Thunder Bay and since then I have competed in turn in all the Divisions except Open on a yearly basis.
In 1997 at the Lakehead/Thunder Bay IPSC League I became an NROI RO and was a Match Director or CRO for about a half dozen Level I Matches which were really "Level II's in disguise" as to the standard expected by the competitors attending. I also officiated at sanctioned Level II Matches at the Lakehead. I continued until 2006 as a NROI RO finishing up my ten year stint with helping to start up the initial 2005 IPSC Matches of the revitalized PF&GA IPSC League.
All this said, from hereon in I am planning to compete on an occasional basis in Revolver, Production and Standard.
I feel my main contribution so far in all the IPSC Matches that I competed in, RO'd or designed as the Match Director what was in many instances a very concentrated effort was this.
It was to encourage any number of other people my age and ability to "just show up and compete or try doing NROI RO work" in IPSC. I did this by "modelling the behavior I expect to appear" ie for NEW shooters of any age or initial ability to try out IPSC, take the BB training and to compete on a sportsmanlike basis.
Indeed for years at the Lakehead I competed in either Production or the Revolver Division when it "finally emerged" in IPSC in an effort to show that you really didnt need fancy equipment or 1000's of dollars to get started in what is all too frequently, is it fair to say, "an IPSC fancy equipment race". Another effort conducted on a very low key basis was to encourage those who are for any number of reasons "mobility challenged" to both take up IPSC and to compete in it. This necessitated making adjustments with stage design so that Everyone could compete on an equal basis once the Match Level I or Level II was in progress.
If you have ever spent hours either spreading gravel so that an Open Class competitor can be pushed around at speed in his/her wheelchair throughout a Level II Course of Fire or making sure all the firing ports in a number of stages will accommodate someone shooting from a wheelchair you will know what I mean eh.
To conclude I do remember the time that one nameless IPSC competitor asked me why I had asked one of the spectators to help out with patching targets or assisting with the logistics at a Match. He/she opined that this competitor "wasnt one of us" because he/she was on the range in a business suit.
Five years later that well dressed spectator was winning awards in the same IPSC League.
In my IPSC roles I tried to be an educator by as I mentioned before, "modelling the behaviour I wished to appear".
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