ACTION AIR IDPA TAIWAN NATIONALS MATCH
TAKING NAMES, GROWING NUMBERS
IF YOU CAST YOUR MIND OR EYES BACK TO AIRSOFT ACTION ISSUE NO. 120 OF DECEMBER 2020 (OR READ IT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OUR “BACK ISSUES”), YOU’LL REMEMBER STEWBACCA’S INITIAL FORAY INTO THE WORLD OF IDPA TAIWAN. NOW, AS WE START 2022, HE BRINGS THINGS UP TO DATE WITH A BANG!
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ack when Ray Chang of VFC invited me along to meet with Max Chiang of local training group ‘Polar Light’ as well as many of the other VFC employees, along with live firearms users who are serving or ex-police and/or military within the ranks of Taiwan’s services, as well as an already growing number of purely civilian enthusiasts, all of whom were embarking on their own journeys within the then only recently instituted Taiwanese chapter of the IDPA (International Defensive Pistol Association). As I mentioned back in my initial article, IDPA is one of the younger disciplines among the likes of longer established IPSC competitive ‘practical’ shooting styles, although having already spent nearly two
years at this point within the local Taiwan Practical Shooting Association’s Action Air / Airsoft IPSC, I might contend IDPA is perhaps more genuinely rooted in the ‘practical’ aspect while IPSC has had longer to evolve into a purely race or match style environment which is purely against the clock and your own marksmanship, while IDPA has a more real life setting to its stages with back story scenarios and more inconvenient starting conditions… being seated in a restaurant when an active shooter event occurs, for instance, and you have to draw from concealment while seated and begin engaging perpetrator targets with judicious marksmanship and immediate action planning or dealing with the closest threats first, while
“THIS FOCUS ON REAL-WORLD APPLICATION HAS MADE THE REAL STEEL EQUIVALENT A POPULAR TRAINING PLATFORM FOR CONCEALED CARRY USERS AND SERVICE PERSONNEL ALIKE IN THE LIKES OF THE US OR OTHER PERMISSIVE ENVIRONMENTS FOR DEFENSIVE FIREARMS CARRY.” 74
FEBRUARY 2022
