Does your club have a poor club culture? Have you done anything to change that? Or are you assuming that someone else will do it?
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I Failed My Exam–Now What?
I get a lot of questions like this from people who have failed either their certification or recertification exams all three times they attempted it. First thing: Don’t Panic!
[Read more…] about I Failed My Exam–Now What?The rules are a team sport
Everyone has questions about USPSA and SCSA rules at some point. But how do you get those questions answered?
[Read more…] about The rules are a team sportRange Command Issues
I’ve recently received a bunch of questions about what to do with incorrect range commands, poor start signal sequences, and the like. Here’s the scoop:
[Read more…] about Range Command IssuesYour RO Journey
So you just found the fabulous sports of USPSA and Steel Challenge and are having a blast (pun intended) with them. At some point it is suggested you get your RO credentials to help at matches and a class is being scheduled near you so you sign up. Now what? Just go take the class and that is it, or is there more to this whole RO thing? It kind of depends. Let’s take a look.
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(Be a Do Bee, Not a Don’t Bee)
As you may have noted, USPSA membership is growing and so is the number of affiliated clubs, both Steel Challenge and USPSA. With growth comes growing pains, naturally, but there are a few things you as an experienced club member, range officer, club contact, match director, section coordinator or Area Director can do to help alleviate some of the common issues. This will be especially necessary with the advent of “The USPSA Experience”, a web site dedicated to cleanly and simply introducing people to our sport.
[Read more…] about Club Culture and YouDangerous Talk
In this day and age, we have reached a point where the possibility that everything we say and do is being recorded, especially on a shooting range at a match. And, because an awful lot of this is shared on social media, how we comport ourselves on the range really does become the public face of the shooting community and can have far reaching impacts. Let’s discuss a bit deeper.
[Read more…] about Dangerous TalkWhy follow the rules?
We have talked before on the blog about the phrase “It’s only a local match” and how it annoys those of us who spend our weekends educating members on the rules. It’s not because rules accidentally get overlooked, not applied, or misapplied, we understand that happens once in a while. It bugs us when clubs have attitudes that either they aren’t capable of following the rules (everyone is capable) or blatantly ignore the rules.
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