Summary of the Minutes of the Twentieth IPSC General Assembly
| Executive Council Present: | ||
|---|---|---|
| Nick Alexakos | IPSC President | |
| Philippe Crochard | IPSC General Secretary | |
| Ren Henderson | IPSC Treasurer | |
| Dave Arnold | IROA President | |
| Peter Glenn | IROA Vice-President | |
| Regions Present: | ||
|---|---|---|
| Argentina | France | Papua New Guinea |
| Australia | Germany | Paraguay |
| Bolivia | Greece | Philippines |
| Brazil | Guatemala | Slovenia |
| Cambodia | Hong Kong | South Africa |
| Canada | Hungary | Spain |
| Chile | Italy | Sri Lanka |
| China | New Zealand | Switzerland |
| Czech Republic | Nicaragua | UK |
| Denmark | Norway | USA |
| Zimbabwe | ||
IPSC President's Report
From the very first day of January the excitement of this
"new administration" of IPSC started, and so many things
have happened (and are happening) that it would take far
too much time even to summarize them all. The year has
just flown by, and I must say, it has been a real pleasure
working with the members of the Executive Council. On
behalf of IPSC, I would like to thank them for their
generous service (and patience).
For me, one of the most significant events this year was the formation of the President's Council. Here, I wish to thank the members of the Council for their invaluable assistance and contribution. Without their collective guidance and individual counsel, my job would have been infinitely more difficult. What a great team!
(DEN)(RSA)(CAN)(BRA)(GER)(USA)(USA)(FRA)(CHN)
Promotion
I think we all agree that our long-term well being lies
in our acceptance by the international sports community, and I
believe we must absolutely move in this direction. Without doing
so, could risk perishing as a sport. With this being
said, I will ask the President's Council to make international
recognition and promotion (in all areas) our top
priority with ideas for increasing our memberships, match
participation, and the number of Level III matches, as
respective priorities. In sum, we need to step into the
international arena and promote IPSC.
Future
Someone once said, "Nothing worthwhile was ever accomplished
without passion." Even though most Regional Directors are
overworked and often unappreciated, I know they have more than enough
passion to champion the future and see this dynamic sport enter
the twenty-first century. Ours is an exciting future.
DVC
Nick Alexakos
IPSC President
IROA President's Report
The year 1996 has been one of transition for the International Range Officers Association. Mr. Alexakos began his term as IPSC President in January, and I moved to the presidency of IROA at the same time.
Planning for this transition began in November, 1995 when a meeting was held in Toronto to determine a transition plan. At that time it was decided that the shift of operations from Toronto to my office in Yorktown would be a phased operation. It was felt that electronic mail and fax services would allow a prompt response to all inquiries for IROA, regardless of which office was contacted during the transition. As of today portions of the operation have been relocated with more to follow through the end of this year.
In January of 1996 a meeting of the IROA Executive was held in conjunction with the SHOT Show in Dallas, Texas. During that meeting we made plans to provide staff for the two major events on the 1996 IPSC international schedule. The first major event was the Australasian Championship to be conducted in Cebu in the Philippines. Mr. Peter Glenn, the new Vice-President of IROA, assumed responsibility for the coordination of IROA staff to assist in the presentation of the event. He also conducted training seminars to assist the Philippine officials in preparing for the event. Peter has been most enthusiastic since assuming office, and we are grateful for his support and dedication to practical shooting. In addition to his IROA duties, Peter is also in charge of the Australian National Range Officer program.
The next major project during 1996 was to determine the amount of support required to assist the region of Brazil during World Shoot XI. During the SHOT Show we met with Regional Director Luis Frota to finalize a plan for the operation of the premier event of IPSC. As we begin the match this week, IROA is proud to be represented by thirty-seven officials from sixteen regions. This group will be working in concert with sixty Brazilian officials to insure the safe and efficient conduct of the match.
At this point, I would like to recognize Range Master, Dino Evangelinos and his contribution to this match. Starting in 1995 Dino has made several trips to Brazil from his home in Canada. During this eighteen-month period Dino has conducted IROA training seminars, surveyed match locations, negotiated with government officials and sponsors, and done absolutely anything that would help to make this match a reality. I believe that Dino's hard work and enthusiasm is typical of the people we are fortunate to have as members of IROA.
During 1997, we will be moving forward on several projects. You have heard President Alexakos mention the discussions with the International Olympic Committee, and this is certainly a major step forward in our development. We also intend to evaluate and further expand the IROA seminars, and to investigate more ways to serve the officials and shooters.
In a further move to enhance the professional image we have tried to project with IROA, we have begun preliminary discussions the National Association of Sports Officials. This group currently represents over 19,000 sporting officials in thirty-seven countries, and is active in conducting comprehensive training and educational programs for officials in all sporting disciplines. They are very interested in working with IROA, and of course, our various National Range Officer organizations to bring the shooting sports into prominence in their organization. We will keep you informed of further developments.
In summary, this has been both a very exciting and very busy year. We have seen much progress, and are looking forward to a challenging year in 1997.
Dave Arnold
IROA President
IPSC Treasurer's Report
Background
I am a Canadian certified Chartered Accountant in public practice
in the Town of Oakville, Ontario. I was asked by our President to
accept the position and duties as Treasurer of the International
Practical Shooting Confederation and was pleased for the opportunity
to work with him. His enthusiasm is infectious.
What is needed?
How will it work?
What have we done?
What can we do?
Thank you
Ren Henderson
IPSC Treasurer
Provisionally Accepted New Regions
| Aruba | |
| Indonesia | |
| Jamaica | |
| Macao |
Final Acceptance of New Regions
| Cambodia | |
| El Salvador | |
| Nicaragua | |
| Slovenia | |
| Trinidad and Tobago |
Constitutional Amendments
13. The International Practical Shooting Rules referred to in this Constitution and adopted by the Assembly shall be applied by the Confederation, its affiliated and members. The said rules shall be capable of being amended by a majority vote at the Assembly, and such amendments shall come into effect on the first of January immediately following the Assembly. With effect from the first of January 1997, said Rules shall only be capable of being amended at an Assembly held in conjunction with a World Championship. Proposed rule amendments at a non-World Championship Assembly require a two-thirds majority vote in favor of discussing the amendments prior to the discussion and subsequent vote on the amendments taken place.
6.3 (paragraph to be added)
Notwithstanding the above but subject to Section 6.11, after the 1st
January, 1998 an election of the President shall only take place at an
Assembly held in conjunction with a World Championship. The President's
term shall commence on the first of January immediately following the
election and shall cease on the thirty-first of December immediately
following the next Assembly held in conjunction with a World Championship.
5.1 IPSC shall not accept individual memberships, but individuals who are members of either an IPSC-affiliated body or members of the Executive Council are deemed to be members of IPSC.
4.6
(6) to select by fair and equitable means
National Teams
to represent the Region at World and International Championships.
National Teams shall each consist of 4 members.
Rule Amendments
2.01 PRACTICALITY - To ensure retention of relative practicality, and thereby the standards of competition, designers wishing to receive Confederation sanction for courses of fire will primarily comply with the Principles of Practical Shooting. The following general principles and rules of course design, and subsequent sections, will serve to expand upon the Principles of Practical Shooting as related to course design and will detail the requirements, responsibilities and restraints prevailing upon course designers as the architects of our sport.
(b) Major factor (see 7.24, 7.25) requires a minimum caliber of 10 mm (.40 inches).
Whilst rectifying a malfunction that requires the competitor to clearly lower the firearm down from on aim at the targets, the trigger finger must be outside the trigger guard. Violation will result in match disqualification.
Score sheets not having complete scores, misses, or times recorded will result in re-shooting the stage for accurate score.
If a reshoot is not possible:
(i)The stage will be scored as zero if the "time" is missing.
(ii) The score sheet will stand and be scored as indicated if all the hits or misses have not been properly recorded.
(iii) In the event of too many hits, the highest scoring hits of the required number will be scored.
(i) Each national team shall consist of a maximum of
four members. The top scores for a maximum of three members shall be used to compute team standings.(ii) A team member may only represent one IPSC Region at any one time and may only represent that Region in which he resides,
except for a national citizen who may represent that region of which he is a citizen as a team member or individual competitor, subject to the prior written approval of both Regional Directors of the regions of residence and citizenship.Residency will be defined as the Region where the individual is ordinarily domiciled for a minimum of 183 days of the twelve months immediately preceding the month in which the competition begins.
Ordinarily domiciled condition is a physical presence test, and bears no relation to citizenship nor to any address of convenience which might be maintained. The 183 days need not necessarily be consecutive nor the most recent 183 days of the twelve month period.
A resident of a Region shall not necessarily forfeit that status by virtue of being domiciled outside that Region while in the service of the armed forces or the government.
A competitor may only represent one IPSC Region at any one time and may only represent that region in which he resides, except for a national citizen who may represent that region of which he is a citizen, subject to the prior written approval of both Regional Directors of the regions of residence and citizenship.
(ii) Targets not having the minimum number of hits required will be penalized by twice the value of a maximum scoring hit per miss.
(iii) Comstock shall not limit the number of shots which may be fired. Competitors may fire until they themselves decide that sufficient hits have been achieved.
(iv) Time stops with the last shot fired and not by any other activity.
(ii) If at any time during the course of fire, or while loading or unloading, a competitor drops his handgun or causes it to fall, loaded or not. See 7.20.
A competitor who, for whatever reason, during the course of fire deliberately places his firearm on either the ground or another object will not be disqualified for unsafe gun handling, as long as all of the following safety procedures are followed:
Rifle Rules
The new edition of the IPSC rifle rules as amended were accepted.
The proposed rifle target known as the Universal Target was accepted.
Level IV and Level V Match Agreement
All future Level IV and V Championship Matches be conducted in accordance
with a written agreement between the host region and IPSC.
American Handgunner Postal Match
The Assembly wishes to thank the American Handgunner Magazine for it's
annual coverage of the International Postal Match
and respectfully requests continued coverage for the year 1997.
The full General Assembly minutes are available for download.
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