Thank you for the question.
If I may, I am, again, not only an athlete and a coach but also a club rep. I put on the matches. As I said earlier, our target that we engage at is paper and steel, and the paper is literally an elongated stop sign. Many years ago, when IPSC started, it was a different target, and some people equated it to looking humanoid, but it was changed when we were looking into.... The organization said that this is a sport and we are strictly engaging paper and steel, so they changed it to the elongated target. I am very happy about that, because it's a sport. I'm engaging at paper and steel.
As far as the course design is concerned, it is an obstacle course. I can give you no better explanation of it. It challenges me physically and mentally as far as multi-tasking goes. If there is a problem, I make sure that I can in the shortest second correct myself and go through that obstacle course—we call it a “course of fire” or a “stage”—in the fastest and most accurate time possible.
It's incredible that at 62 years of age, I can still compete in this sport and tell you proudly that I have the opportunity to represent Canada, because I'm in the top 25 in Ontario. I got there because, like people such as Lynda, we worked, we strived and we trained for excellence.