Cначала было письмо РД Израиля….

From: Nachum J. Zarzif
Sent: Friday, 20 September, 2013 18:37
To: ger@ipsc.org ; gre@ipsc.org ; gum@ipsc.org ; gua@ipsc.org ; guy@ipsc.org ; hon@ipsc.org ; hkg@ipsc.org ; hun@ipsc.org ; kaz@ipsc.org ; kuw@ipsc.org ; kgz@ipsc.org ; lao@ipsc.org ; lat@ipsc.org ; ltu@ipsc.org
Cc: Nick Alexakos ; Vince Pinto ; Alain Joly ; Dimitrios Tzimas
Subject: New Amendment

Dear Regional Directors,

For many years we declared that in our sport, unlike in others sports, women are equal to men in participation. They shoot the same stages together with the men, compete together and rank together.

Nevertheless, at the same time, there is a difference in categories regarding the awards. For men, there are a number of categories which differentiate between age groups: junior, senior and super senior. For women, there is only one category which does not differentiate between age groups: LADY. One category only of awards.

It is time to stop this discrimination against women and have the same scale of categories and awards for women shooters.

This can be easily done by establishing the same scale for women as for men, by adding Lady Junior, Lady Senior, and Lady Super Senior to the categories which already exist.

Therefore, I sent the amendment below to the secretary of IPSC, to put it on the agenda of the assembly in November 2013 in Pataya, Thailand.

Amendment to Appendix A2 Para 3. Individual Categories:

After sub Para ( D ) will be written:

( E ) Lady Junior………….competitors of the female gender who are under the

Age of 21 on the first day of the match.

( F ) Lady Senior………….competitors of the female gender who are over the

Age of 50 on the first day of the match.

( G ) Lady Super Senior….competitors of the female gender who are over the

Age of 60 on the first day of the match.

I hope that you all join me and together we will change the rule, so that we will be like all other sports in the world regarding our categories and awards.

Help me to assure that in the next World Shoot, to be held in 2014 in Florida, women will be able to register like us men as junior, senior, or even super senior.

Sincerely
Nachum J. Zarzif
RD ISRAEL

Затем ответ Винсе Пинто.. Не хотят они сделать много Леди

Dear Regional Directors,

While we all appreciate the passion for our sport shown by our dear friend Nachum from Israel, he has made a glaring error. IPSC does not have a «male-only» category nor any «male-only-age» categories:

Overall ……….. Both sexes, all ages
Junior …………. Both sexes, under age 21
Senior …………. Both sexes, over age 50
Super Senior … Both sexes, over age 60
Lady …………… Female only, all ages

As IPSC has a Lady category, which obviously excludes male competitors, it is illogical to suggest that IPSC is discriminatory towards women. In fact, we have given female competitors a category exclusively for themselves!

Over the years, there have been numerous other category suggestions, such as:

«Super-Super Senior» for competitors over the age of 70.
«Sub-Junior» for competitors under the age of 16.

If we are to consider the spirit of the current Israeli Motion, then we should consider those as well, but of course we’d also need to have:

«LADY Super-Super Senior» for female competitors over the age of 70.
«LADY Sub-Junior» for female competitors under the age of 16.

Such sub-categorizing would never end! How much more time would we need for the Awards Presentation Dinner at our hi-level matches, not to mention the massive reprogramming requirements and cost for the additional website development and match scoring system?

It is therefore the IPSC Executive Council’s strong recommendation that we retain the current status quo that has served us well, and not burden the current system with a flawed category.

Best regards,
Vince Pinto
IPSC Secretary