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The movement backward does take alot of concentration as well as being slow. The chances of falling are greatly increased that the reason for the concentration since it is not really a natural movement.

I don't remember where it was that I saw it, and I have never done it but always wanted to... It was an IDPA style contest with targets suspended from helium filled balloons. There are weights on the bottom so they stay in the general area (the shooting bay) but they can move. There were multiple targets and friend/foe situations. I thought HOW cool!

Divided Attention wrote:I don't remember where it was that I saw it, and I have never done it but always wanted to... It was an IDPA style contest with targets suspended from helium filled balloons. There are weights on the bottom so they stay in the general area (the shooting bay) but they can move. There were multiple targets and friend/foe situations. I thought HOW cool!

I designed several stages using balloons, but not floating around. I had a stage based on having to shoot one BG and eliminate him in order to even see the ones behind him. I set it up so that it was very very hard to make a "shoot through."

I put the balloon in a cut off bucket taped to the back of a standard IDPA target, with a string around the neck of the balloon holding the target up on PVC pipes set up to guide the target straight down. A hit on the "0 down" circle would pop the balloon and it would drop, exposing at least one "no shoot" target, also placed to minimize shoot through, and a second BG target.

We also had one that we tried, where the first target hit triggered a second one crossing from left to right. The problem was that the motor we were triggering started up slowly and the better shooters were often able to engage the mover before it actually started moving. I was never able to engage the target before it started moving.

Lots of YouTube videos of CCIDPA matches.

jimlongley wrote:The one I found the most difficult was moving backwards while engaging a BG moving toward me.

That was my first stage of my first IDPA match. I thought, "you've got to be kidding me!" I did okay and did not finish last.

ScooterSissy wrote: I know that in "real life" a target wouldn't be able to keep coming at me after the 1st or 2nd shots hit....

Do NOT bet your life on that.

I can think of several reasons a couple of shots will not do it: poor shot placement, armor, drugs...

ammoboy2 wrote:I can think of several reasons a couple of shots will not do it: poor shot placement, armor, drugs...