I couldn't find this one with the search engine so I'll bring it up.
I'm match directing this month and sent my stages to the program director for approval. With the graphics I was using, I identified the starting location on each stage with boxes.
He wrote back that "we don't use start boxes in IDPA!"
While physical boxes aren't required for these stages and it's not a real issue (except for keeping shooters from getting too close to a couple of poppers), his comment sent me into the rule book looking for the topic.
The only thing I saw that was even remotely connected was the prohibition against foot fault lines, I imagine, as we use in USPSA, but those don't necessarily serve as foot fault lines in that discipline. Sometimes they just plain locate the shooter at the buzzer.
Some stages naturally have a start location that can't always be defined by "hands on barrel" or "palms flat on wall" and need a convention for specifiying. Why not a start box on the ground?
Bill
I'm match directing this month and sent my stages to the program director for approval. With the graphics I was using, I identified the starting location on each stage with boxes.
He wrote back that "we don't use start boxes in IDPA!"
While physical boxes aren't required for these stages and it's not a real issue (except for keeping shooters from getting too close to a couple of poppers), his comment sent me into the rule book looking for the topic.
The only thing I saw that was even remotely connected was the prohibition against foot fault lines, I imagine, as we use in USPSA, but those don't necessarily serve as foot fault lines in that discipline. Sometimes they just plain locate the shooter at the buzzer.
Some stages naturally have a start location that can't always be defined by "hands on barrel" or "palms flat on wall" and need a convention for specifiying. Why not a start box on the ground?
Bill
