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If you don't follow IDPA or USPSA rules, then it isn't IDPA or USPSA, it is "other."
I call them outlaw matches.
No doubt they are great fun for the locals who only shoot locally.
They might get an unpleasant surprise if they went somewhere and entered a sanctioned match and found their equipment not competitive or completely disallowed and their techniques garnering them poor scores and penalties.
I am going to find out this season. One club gave up on IDPA because they did not want to implement the new rules, and did not want to challenge their membership's math with USPSA scoring. Another is like the OP's, they are doing it Their Way. The match director told me "We advance, my training did not include retreating."
I will see if these outlaw shoots are harmful to the IDPA techniques I have been hammering into my reflexes for the past 16 years.
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