Originally Posted by
Mr_White
That's a great post Clobbersauras and I agree with you. One subtlety I'd probably add is that the Classifier stages in USPSA are very much about stand-and-shoot skills, and those Classifier stages overwhelmingly are the mechanism that establish people's Classifications. The overall sport isn't remotely about stand-and-shoot skills, though they are part of it and are still the central element, even with all the layers added on top of them in field courses. And since the shooting is still the central element, the Classification system still basically works correctly even though it doesn't test what we would consider to be the "match skills" that are so important in placing well in actual matches. And I don't mean game-only stuff when I say match skills, I mean the overall mental and physical act of integrating excellent shooting with all the movement and complexity involved in USPSA field courses.