Welcome to TDPC


4 Universal Firearm Safety Rules

The Firearm is always loaded

Never point a Firearm to something you are not prepared to destroy

Always identify your target and anything behind it

Keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to shoot

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Welcome to the website of  Touw Defensive Pistol Club (TDPC).
TDPC is affiliated with the National body named South African Defensive Pistol Association(SADPA). 
SADPA is affiliated with the International body named International Defensive Pistol Association (IDPA).

What is IDPA?

IDPA as a sport is quite simply the use of practical equipment including full charge service ammunition to solve simulated “real world” self-defense scenarios. Shooters competing in IDPA events are required to use practical handguns and holsters that are truly suitable for self-defense use. No “competition only” equipment is permitted in IDPA matches since the main goal is to test the skill and ability of an individual, not his equipment or gamesmanship. - (source www.idpa.com)

What are the goals of IDPA?

1: Promote safe and proficient use of guns and equipment suitable for self-defense use.
2: Provide a level playing field for all competitors to test the skill and ability of the individual, not their equipment or gamesmanship.
3: Provide separate divisions for equipment and classifications for shooters, such that guns with similar characteristics are grouped together and people with similar skills compete only against each other.
4: Provide shooters with practical and realistic courses of fire that simulate a potentially life-threatening encounter or that tests skills that would be required to survive a life-threatening encounter.
5: Offer a practical shooting sport that is responsive to the shooters and sponsors, with unprecedented stability of equipment rules.
6: Offer a practical shooting sport that allows the competitors to concentrate on the development of their shooting skills and fellowship with other likeminded shooters.

- (source www.idpa.com)