Please update complaints.
IPSC has not been shot to any extent in the USA for a good many years. Not zero, but not much.
No, it's to discourage round-counting.Why? IDPA BoD SAID it was the reason when they put it in.I have a hard time believing that's the reason for the rule.
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AIWB doesn't matter.
IDPA pisses people off because it's a game that wraps itself in faux tactics with Dunning-Kruger Effect to the max. It has a drastically different scoring metric, crowd, and equipment rules from USPSA. The holster rules are at the bottom of the list of issues. Issues which will always exist because you can't make everyone happy and nothing is perfect.
In an average match let's say there are 4-6 stages. The majority of matches are local, level 1 matches. So over 90% of the time when one goes and plays IDPA they shoot approximately 5 stages. Say one of those stages has the gun start in a box, on a barrel, whatever.
So you're telling me, 4 draws is going to ruin your real world application, build training scars, and keep you from "train like you fight" ninja-operator-master level? 4 draws is what's keeping you from competing? Go dry fire for 10min after the match with your AIWB holster and you'll log in 500% the quantity of draws you just got in the match.
Bruce Lee was pretty accurate when he said "Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick." In direct comparison a draw is a draw and it really doesn't matter whether its from AIWB, a skeleton race holster, or a Safariland. If you're a soup sandwich going from AIWB to OWB, its because you're a soup sandwich, not because you had to change gear.
Not necessarily disagreeing (personally use side rig in games while carry AIWB) but...
Those four draws will be their weekly assessment of how they are doing with their carry gear under condition of competitive stress, under observation, more or less cold, no redos, for score on that given day. 500 dry draws at home or live fire at the range don't give you that. As an example, there are less than two dozen FAST coin holders but hundreds of people who say they can run it on their own under 5.
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