X-games

[Robjk]

I just returned to the shooting sports with a 13yr old son. I was a regular IPSC local shooter back in 84, 85, and 1986. I’m not surprised by the obscurity the sport is still in given the general anti gun climate in this country. A lot of the same anti gun sentiment exists in motorcross, our other past time. To a lesser degree you could add Skateboarding to the mix.

X-Games and the power of TV have turned other obscure sports into profitable careers for those at the top of their game. Who here doesn’t know Travis Pastrana? I personally think IPSC is as exciting as the other sports in the X-games and if some flash was added It would be awesome to watch!

Sorry old guys, no one wants to watch us running and gunning! This is for the junior shooters and those in the sport in their early twenties, given the X-games demographics.

Anyone else think ISPC would make a good addition to the X-games? It could be called

IPSC-X, like MOTO-X.

Anyone agree? Want to do some brain storming on the subject? Or am I crazy?

[rhino]

I had this idea a while back. I called it "Extreme Shooting" or "X-Treme Shooting."

Here is a message I posted a while ago on the unofficial ipsc e-mail list:

Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 03:50:52 -0500

To: Unofficial IPSC E-Mail List <ipsc@shooters.com>

From: Joseph Viray <rhino@link2000.net>

Subject: [iPSC] My Foolproof Scheme to Boost IPSC Membership and Thus Save Our Sport

I've thought of a way to make our number skyrocket, at least in USPSA. And

I think Michael Bane will like this idea. (forgive me if someone else has

thought of it first)

The beauty is the simplicity . . . just two steps to tens of thousands of

new members.

STEP 1: We all wear brightly colored, spandex bodysuits and get bad

haircuts, plus assorted faux piercings and tattoos. (Clearly the

capability and desire for decorating the guns and gear already exists).

STEP 2: Change the name from "practical shooting" to "EXTREME Shooting."

If we put the word "extreme" in there, every kid in America from 15 to 35

is going to want to do it regardless of what it is.

Here's how it will work for us:

SKATEBOARDER/THRASHER "Rex": "Dude! I don't want to go shoot guns with

rednecks! I totally want to hurtle down the side of a swimming pool and

break bones I haven't broken yet, dude!"

New EXTREME shooting convert: "Dude, it's not that stuffy old redneck

practical shooting . . . dude this is EXTREME shooting!"

Rex: "Whoa, dude! I'm SO going to try that!"

See? Foolproof (as long as we don't mind having thrashers named "Rex"

around us all the time)!

If we do it now, we can ride the coattails of the soon-to-be-released

movie, "Extreme Ops" (wherein we learn that highly trained, heavily armed

mercenaries can be handily defeated by simply engaging in extreme sports

such as snowboarding)

I think the idea of me in a fuschia spandex unitard sort of sunk the idea.