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National Airsoft Girls
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13-01-2009 6:19pm#1Hi guys and girls,
I have noticed OzCam had kindly started a thread, I have been away from my computer so never got a chance to comment on some of your posts.
I can see there is mixed views about NAG which is understandable.
I can see the point about "why should there need to be NAG or a move to push more females into the sport"
This is a very good point.. yes airsoft is for both male and female players, NAG just wants to help the exsisting female players and also new recruits to communicate, support and improve the gameplay.
I found it slightly intemidating when I first started by being surrounded by a mass of men..but with time I got used to it... but still there was something missing..comraidship.. the guys didnt have a problem of me joining them during the game and i am a welcomed part of a large team of 30 odd guys that attend big events here in the U.K.
when your out on the field its amazing and inspiring to watch team formations moving stealthy thru the game, accomplishing tasks and working as a group.
This dosent come over night this is from many months training but also socialising, when you communicate outside the airsoft site you get to know your fellow team mates so well you build up that trust and comraidship...
Some ladies may find this a challenge, I thought personally it was a good idea to try to help assist this by having the website, forum and training schedules. It started off as a much smaller idea of me getting a few more females to join me at my local site but its now become something much bigger.
Many girls are really happy that NAG is there, its comforting that there will be a friendly face there to help support and get you thru your first few skirmishes and help give you advice on what gun to buy or what sort of loadout (I choose certain products as I know its easier to wear and play a game in becuase its suitable for a girls body).
I personally have gone out of my way to help girls who were "interested" into doing airsoft, to providing them with loadouts and guns, taking them to a site and showing them the ropes..these are girls who would have otherwise not dared to just turn up at a site by themselves or with another friend. I know some of my other girls have done this also. It has provided these newbies a sense of "belonging" to something and then they have come along week after week.
For the more experience girl airsofters I know we benifit from teaching each other tactics, or just generally have a laff about airsoft, just as you guys do no different. Some girls maybe interested in having training and pushing themselves harder in the sport by learning tactics but just dont have the facilities or contacts to do so, so were helping facilitate that.
Also I know my other half was comforted by the fact that I was going to catterick with a few other girls when we went for the Scotland vs England game, as there were 150 other guys there too, its a fact of life, us ladies have families also and having to fit airsoft around a busy homelife, its nice to have someone else there to talk to about these sort of things too.
NAG is a good thing, im not out to proove a point or to become a sufferagete movement amongst airsoft theres loads of girls out there and have been out there for some time, and maybe NAG isnt for every girl but the posistive responses I have had and the smiling faces I see on the girls after a good day skirmishing/milsiming makes it worth all the hours spent training, researching and speaking to fellow airsofters all worth it.
Its not been an easy task so far but thank you to the support I have been given it certainly helps us girls continue
well thats my rant over, im happy to reply to any of your questions or hear any type of comment..i love a good healthy debate..especially about something i am passionate about.. ohh and the guy who took that rediculious very demeaning female picture was shot in the hand by me, something I do not approve to do as was very childish like behaviour but sometimes accidents happen :-)11
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Welcome to the Forum.,:)
My better/other half tried out airsoft too and as you said, she found it a little intimidating. She hasn't been back out but i intend on getting her out again.,
I think its great to see you've went out of your way to bring airsoft to girls and i would love to see more playing the game. I think before we do though the attitudes of some of us blokes needs to be changed before hand , I feel thats partly the reason my own partner hasn't been so enthusiastic about getting more involved.
good luck with the team and hope to game against ya sometime.,:D0 -
Yeah good on ya, some girls (gizmo I'm looking in your direction
) didn't need the likes of NAG to overcome the intimidation of breaking into a male dominated sport, other girls, it seems, get a lot out of the support offered by NAG and I applaud yuz for it.
Plus the training programme on your website is a lot tougher than the training that many of our all male teams do, so respect where respect is due and hats (but not facemasks) off to ya. I hope to get the chance to play against yuz at some point.0 -
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At the Dkit airsoft soc we have a small group of girls who play/train regularly and get involved, we have them integrated into the main team but also as an all girls team. I hope you guys do well with the NAG and if you would like pictures or anything at all, I can help as best as I can. 0
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[DM]-TheDOC- wrote: »
I know this is the case with my girlfriend, although im well confident she would be grand, and would b ea heck of an airsofter , shes a shy type of person and i dont know exactly how to go about getting her into games.
But yeah fair play to you for giving up your time for the good of the sport and aiding the growth of female players.
Good times!- I try not to pressurise the newbies at all take her along when shes up for it ..( not around that "special" time of the month as it will hurt her more when she gets shot, some girls have lower pain threshholds)
- making it as fun as possible for her is the best thing to do ... one thing to suggest is leave her with a trusted friend and go on the opposing team .. then her mission for the day is to shoot you as many times as possible .. I know Im often shy around my better half then when im around my airsoft mates a different side of me comes out. She my fine great pleasure in this lol
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I had my sis out with me last year and she will definitey be out with me again. Her girlfriends looked at her, as if she had two heads, because she "wants to play war like the lads" (direct quote).
She has actually got some of them interested in trying it. I just have to arrange a date that they can come with me.
Great stuff!, I hope it goes wellsenordingdong wrote: »Don't worry Genghiz, that joke was made a few threads ago.
Like I said before, it makes no difference to me what the gender of the player is.
It feels like alot of blokes are eager to push this just to show that they're not exclusionary, but I suggest taking it easy, you could scare them off from being too eager.
I actually agree with something you have written :eek: but jokes aside...
I Let girls know about the site and then leave it to them to sign up using the facilities on there.
If they want to receive information about the training they can. All materials on the site are avaliable for both male and female airsofters.
The 18 ladies that have signed up , have done so of their own accord.
The only time i have "cold called" personally to ladies, was when I was out in Canterbury city in Kent UK in full combats with some of the girls handing out flyers and showing them what the sport is like using magazines etc. I love the sport and if all i do on a local level is just raising awareness then thats fine by me :-)Am I the only one to link women to nag?
As in "Nag nag nag nag"?
Thin ice? You bet!
oh the irony of the name :-)0 -
christina-nag wrote: »
- I try not to pressurise the newbies at all take her along when shes up for it ..( not around that "special" time of the month as it will hurt her more when she gets shot, some girls have lower pain threshholds)
- making it as fun as possible for her is the best thing to do ... one thing to suggest is leave her with a trusted friend and go on the opposing team .. then her mission for the day is to shoot you as many times as possible .. I know Im often shy around my better half then when im around my airsoft mates a different side of me comes out. She my fine great pleasure in this lol
Thanks for the info and the offer
She is not up for going out in the cold or rain, so its going to be summer time for her. Warehouse might be a bit too intense, then again shes a tough nut so I dont know.
But I'll be bringing her out eventually, and the plan is that I'd just stick with her to show her the ropes, then if she wants to go solo or against me fair enough.
But it is great to know that there is someone there actually giving their time to this sort of thing.0 -
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