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Thread: Practical Competition Rules

  1. #71
    Quote Originally Posted by cclaxton View Post
    - While I like some running to points of cover or shooting positions, I don't like a lot of running or a lot of distance. Other than getting your heart rate up, it doesn't test shooting ability, and adds an unfair advantage to younger and fit individuals while putting overweight, unfit, or partly disabled (i.e.- guys with bad knees) at a competitive disadvantage.
    How about use discipline with nutrition, exercise, and not be fat? Why should someone get a handicap because they don't take care of themselves?

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    Quote Originally Posted by JaeOne3345 View Post
    How about use discipline with nutrition, exercise, and not be fat? Why should someone get a handicap because they don't take care of themselves?
    The sport should be primarily a competition of shooting skill using cover, concealment, mental discipline, and strategy. if someone wants a footrace, have a footrace.

    Some people have limitations that are out of their control, such as bad knee, bad hip, bad back, arthritis (even young people can have arthritis), and other similar ailments. Being overweight and out of shape is certainly in their control most of the time, that is true.

    I think you are missing my main point....that IDPA needs to extend their maximum to allow more realistic courses of fire, and that sometimes USPSA makes the distances too n long to where the running time becomes too big a factor.
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  3. #73
    I'm not missing the point.

    Realism as you bring up = being fat and having to run/shoot one day.

    It is what it is. Same with knees, etc. That's what you brought to to the table. Deal with it.

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