Ahab Posted October 19, 2011 Share Posted October 19, 2011 From an email from Joyce Wilson: A Message to All IDPA Members from Executive Director Joyce WilsonIn 1996, the International Defensive Pistol Association was formed as a grassroots organization to fulfill a need not addressed by other shooting sports. The initial membership was ~30 shooters. In the intervening years, our membership has swelled to 18,000 and continues to grow. With this growth comes the desire to serve our members while retaining our commitment to the grassroots nature of our sport. After much groundwork, I am excited to announce an initiative to bring in our members to provide input and guidance for our sport. For the past few months, we have been working on an effort to examine how we can best serve our membership by addressing changing needs in IDPA using the Tiger Team methodology. The term Tiger Team has been described as 'a team of undomesticated and uninhibited specialists, selected for their experience, energy, and imagination, and assigned to track down relentlessly every possible source of opportunity' for success in a project. We will create Tiger Teams to look at various aspects of the sport, including but not limited to: Classifications, Divisions, Rulebook, Marketing, Safety Officer Education, Equipment, Rule Change Process, and other identified areas. Team members will represent our rank and file based on a combination of their activity in and passion for the sport; expertise and skills they bring to the group; geographic diversity; class and division diversity; understanding of the rulebook; and willingness to work in partnership with the team and with HQ. With this goal in mind, I have tasked Terry Burba from Texas and Kitty Richards from New York to facilitate this process and act as liaison for the Tiger Teams and HQ. I selected Terry and Kitty based on a combination of their world wide experience as Safety Officers/Safety Officers Instructors and their overall passion for IDPA. No one has worked more matches this year than Terry and Kitty. Additionally, their knowledge is compounded through their professional careers, as they both act as facilitators and agents of change for large international organizations, and have years of experience in delivering successful project outcomes within the Fortune 500 world. Each Tiger Team, focusing on a single area, will include one or both of the Facilitators and a Leader. The Leader and Facilitators will work in conjunction with HQ to select members to examine that area of the sport and deliver their recommendations to me; once vetted, I will present them to the Board for discussion, approval, or future consideration. Not all recommendations can or will be implemented, but ALL information will be considered! Since almost every principle in IDPA hinges on the rulebook, we have created our initial Tiger Team to look at how we can make our rulebook more straightforward without massive rule changes and without creating a new rulebook. This team will kick-off next week and will investigate methods of streamlining and/or clarifying the rulebook and will present recommendations to me after the first of 2012. As part of this look into the rulebook, we may break the rule book up into multiple Tiger Teams. To ensure consistency, some of the initial Tiger Team members may be asked to act as Leader for subsequent Teams. (See diagram below). This is an exciting time in IDPA as we work together to improve our guiding principles. You will be kept abreast of the progress through quarterly communications from me to the membership - these will be posted on the idpa.com website, our Linked-In Group, and our IDPA FaceBook Page. As always, please reach out to me if you have questions or concerns. It is my honor to serve you, Joyce Obviously, as someone who has a deep love for IDPA, I think this is absolutely fantastic. It is excellent to see HQ responding to concerns from shooters about the sport and keeping it viable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Vigilante Posted October 19, 2011 Share Posted October 19, 2011 Certainly a step in the right direction. Let's hope they listen to the recommendations and act on them accordingly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirveyr Posted October 19, 2011 Share Posted October 19, 2011 Other than Terry and Kitty, who are the other team members? How does one get on this HQ e-mail list? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Adams Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Other than Terry and Kitty, who are the other team members? How does one get on this HQ e-mail list? Be a member of IDPA and volunteer your services to Bubba or Kitty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hostetter Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 << Be a member of IDPA and volunteer your services >> It will be interesting to see if anyone from the west coast get selected for these 'teams' ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waktasz Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Boom. Winning. (I do think the rulebook needs a total re-write, and I'm not sure how they will accomplish their goal of making it more straightforward without that) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merlin Orr Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Nice to see this. HQ is listening and working to smooth out the rough spots. Growing and evolving is never a painless process...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahab Posted October 20, 2011 Author Share Posted October 20, 2011 The message is posted on idpa.com as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Koski Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 I got that email too. But I also get the other "announcement" type emails from IDPA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chills1994 Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 my blue collar hammer swinging wrench turning for a living interpretation was "IDPA goes corporate". back when I was "middle management" in the Air Force circa 1994, we were doing Tiger Teams back then, all in an effort to attempt to compete for the Malcolm Baldridge quality award. also at that time, shedding paradigms was all the rage too. in the civilian corporate world, the buzz phrase became "thinking outside the box". it's great that IDPA recognizes that there is a need for change. my own personal experience locally with a gun club is that nothing gets done when committees get formed. I call that "social loafing". Other people might call it "diffusion of responsibilty", either way it seems to lead to "paralysis by analysis". I hope that is not the case with this latest endeavor. Good luck, IDPA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davehorn Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 A step in the right direction. I think if there is just some clarity given to some of the rules, we'll be much better off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirveyr Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Other than Terry and Kitty, who are the other team members? How does one get on this HQ e-mail list? Be a member of IDPA and volunteer your services to Bubba or Kitty. I am a member of IDPA. So you don't know how to get on the HQ e-mail list? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BBBB Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 I believe if you go to IDPA.com and click the button on the left hand side of the screen labeled "Subscribe to our newsletter - click here" it will put you on the list. This is the only thing I have ever signed up for on IDPA.com and I also received a copy of the announcement via email. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirveyr Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 (edited) Thanks. I am already subscibed so I don't know why I did not get it. There was nothing in the junk/spam folders either. Edited October 20, 2011 by sirveyr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Nukem Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 Hopefully these Tigers will recognize that light rails on metal framed pistols have proliferated and should no longer be excluded en masse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirveyr Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 Hopefully these Tigers will recognize that light rails on metal framed pistols have proliferated and should no longer be excluded en masse. There is a thread going on over at the IDPA Forum that is perfect for your concerns: IDEAS for rule book modification The thread is for ideas only. We are trying to keep the discussion out of it at this point. Lord knows we do that enough already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmorris Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 Hopefully these Tigers will recognize that light rails on metal framed pistols have proliferated and should no longer be excluded en masse. I shoot a light railed metal frame pistol all of the time and at 3 or 4 different nationals. Excluded? Does yours weigh too much? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWFAN Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 Hopefully these Tigers will recognize that light rails on metal framed pistols have proliferated and should no longer be excluded en masse. There is a thread going on over at the IDPA Forum that is perfect for your concerns: IDEAS for rule book modification The thread is for ideas only. We are trying to keep the discussion out of it at this point. Lord knows we do that enough already. Thanks for the link. I added some of my own ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GmanCdp Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 (edited) Other than Terry and Kitty, who are the other team members?How does one get on this HQ e-mail list?Be a member of IDPA and volunteer your services to Bubba or Kitty. << Be a member of IDPA and volunteer your services >>It will be interesting to see if anyone from the west coast get selected for these 'teams' ... I've added the flow chart for the Tiger Team..Plus one to what Bob said above,maybe they will divide the US into regions and pick shooters from each ..I sure hope that they will only let an IDPA member be a part of only one team and not have that same IDPA member be on every team,that way more members will have a shot of getting on.. Edited October 21, 2011 by GmanCdp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GmanCdp Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 sorry ...forgot the chart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Koski Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 I hope they divide IDPA differently: Old farts decide 1911 rules. Young punks decide ESP rules. Antique collectors decide revolver rules. Cops decide SSP rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waktasz Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 I hope they divide IDPA differently: Old farts decide 1911 rules. Young punks decide ESP rules. Antique collectors decide revolver rules. Cops decide SSP rules. Sounds about right. -Matt (ESP shooter ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlockCanMan Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 I do believe that the rule book needs to be updated. But everyone is going to want it to be set up their way. I wouldn't mind getting in on this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickB Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 I immediately contacted my AC, asking how to get on one of these Tiger Teams. Reading the email, I figured 50-100 people might be involved, but the AC said he knew nothing about the Team(s) or how they/it were/was selected, and that no other ACs would admit to being involved, either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glock3422 Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 The proof will be in the pudding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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