Why you love airsoft...

Firekitten

Ok folks, consider this therapy...

The object of this thread, is to give a reason why you love this sport.

Is it the sportsmanship? the socialising? the chance to go release some tension on the field?

What makes it tick for you? We're all obsessed to one degree or another... the piles of guns are testiment to that.

What is the personal attraction for you? what makes you feel good about it?


I'll start off.....


For me, Going to an airsoft event is a chance to meet people from all backgrounds, carears, and walks of life... I get to talk to people I'd ordinerily not meet, and on an even grounding too.... Police officers, Judges, Librarians, truck drivers... allsorts.... Airsoft is sociable, and fun... We make our sport... without people, it would suck...

_SONIC_

for me its just being out there with new people working together and everyone having the craic!!

and of course the guns!:D:D

airsoftjunkie

Hey airsoft what!!!!! a sport, i've meet some cool people and made some good friends, all the hobbies ive had ,football ,gaa ,etc nothing compares to the adrenaline rush i get from airsoft oh and i just love to shoot people .:D:D:D:D

swiftblade

Deffiently the main thing for me is the friends you make.

Also the fact you can run around and shoot people, and not look crazy.....well most the time :rolleyes:

PEP_C

Taking a group of mild mannered, educated, intelligent individuals....tossing 4 smoke grenades in front of an objective and then screaming at them to get up off the ground and charge.....and then watching them turn into a screaming horde of salivating killers as they spray indescriminately in every direction and take the objective.

No better way to spend a Saturday afternoon.

gungun

for me the biggest thing (except playing with the toys and dressing up)
is talking to people who actually know what airsoft is
i've lost count of the times i've been talking to someone and i ask
"ever hear of airsoft?"
"wtf?"
*walks off in disappointment*

Spetzcong

The people, the banter, the escapism, those rare moments when it all comes together for you and you feel like the hero in some over the top hollywood action movie and the comedy moments when it all goes epically wrong. Also the guns.

thermo

well after being a re-enactor for over 10 years and wargaming with bf guns and pyro, its the next step.
in a perfect world, an auto gun that fires a blank round and a bb at the same time! :cool:

Mervenut

The friendliest, most helpful bunch of guys and gals you could ever hope to meet. Get to play with and handle replicas of iconic firearms, and get to challenge yourself against some great opposition, magic!!

phlegms

Cos it makes me feel hard-core :cool:

Lemming

To quote Matthew Modine in Full Metal Jacket

I wanted to see Vietnam; the pearl of south east asia. I wanted to meet people from an interesting and stimulating culture. And kill them. I wanted to be the first kid on my block with a confirmed kill ...

I love meeting new people; and nideed putting faces to names I already know. And playing alongside them, swapping stories afterwards, the exercise that's fun, etc. I could go on all night but I think I can sum it up on two words; airsoft rules.

KonFusion

It's the teamwork that does it for me....nothing more satisfying than when a team comes together in sync to execute tactics perfectly....

....and the guns .... plus where else can I hold an m16 in one hand, while down on one knee, in full BDU, and scream "I'm a lead farmer motherf***er" without being sectioned or put in prison

MKIII

all about releasing the tension, rage whatever you want to call it.Though I admit sometimes it causes more than it solves.

Smokerkl

Meeting people who enjoy the things I do. Namely Wars and guns and big boys stuff.. Good exercise and it gets me away from "normal" life for the day. Just a pity everybody in every club wasn't as like minded as the rest of us. There will always be the back stabbing barstewards out there who think they are better than the rest of us even though they are just ignorant little wan***s!!
S..

Keggers Senior

What I enjoy about Airsoft? It a wonderful way to release tension, but the main reason I like it is the diversity of the sport. Go alone or play as a team you always have criac. You also get to run round in 20lb worth of gear and shoot people. Whats not te like?!

plastic_axe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVESMxs4rbA

TheDoc

Being part of a team. I truly miss football to a serious extent, and airsoft fills that aspect and more.

I get to buy and use what look like real guns, dress up as a solider, and employ play that resembles warfare, its my wet dream.

I love the vast array of characters I meet and always end up just bursting me hole laughing everywhere I am.

I'd say the main reason I'm still in this game is the team I'm apart off, I would have stopped long ago only for theyve become close friends and the craic is immense. And they employ a kinda game style that I just love and always want to be a part of.

I think its also cool that I'm part of a community in a sport thats on the grow, and want to be apart of it.

Plus the fact it just just unleashed the years and years of counter strike play and paintball play in me, curled into one big ball of epic win.

Gray

I like the friendly attitude of every one where no one cares what side your on back in the safe zone, no mercy on the field but help you fix your gun between games.

I also like the variety of game stiles from shoot em up to milsim depending on me mood & the site.

Last but not least I get to play with loads of cool toys without being told to grow up & act me age:D

Firekitten

TheDoc wrote: »

I'd say the main reason I'm still in this game is the team I'm not apart off, I would have stopped long ago only for theyve become close friends and the craic is immense. And they employ a kinda game style that I just love and always want to be a part of.

I guess you mean 'now'? heh, quite an ironic slip in this instant.

MMmmm, Team is not an aspect of airsoft I've considered myself. I've never been 'regular' at events. I've been to countless hundreds of games, and a regular player at a few sites, but never with any 'each week' or 'every fortnight' like some people can manage. I've had offers to join several teams, but as most of my airsoft has been in England, the team culture is Nowhere near as strong.... ie, most players are lone, but band together at events for the sides....
Always looked tempting, but things have distance here, and numbers, and people come from far and wide... not everyones in the same town, or area....
Perhaps I'll go for a team one day, just to see what its like... some of the ones i've seen here make it look worth it...

Then again the duo of myself and my old time airsofting side kick is probablty akin.... Tactical-tart and Kitslut ride again!

TheDoc

O i just realised i wrote " team im not apart off" that was ment to be " team im apart" ala hawks.

Firekitten

Uh.... that's just rude... nasty, and abusive, and has no place in airsoft. ( to a deleted post)

o1s1n

MKIII - post deleted/banned for a week for trolling/abuse

Shiva

TheDoc wrote: »

O i just realised i wrote " team im not apart off" that was ment to be " team im apart" ala hawks.

Actually, we were going to have a chat with you tonight, but I guess now is as good a time as any.......

IrisHOrioN

THe social aspect is one thing I enjoy, and just the whole idea of war-games and being able to shoot at people

CptMackey

All ways wanted to be a solider but never liked the thought of basic training and getting shot. That and i like meeting people (girlfriend says i know too many)

Oh and i am addicted to buying aegs and the like

giggsy664

I just like the way there is no feuding off the skirmish site. Like in football you have hooliganism, but in airsoft the only aggresion is on the battlefield! And they're all a sound bunch of lads and ladies.

Plus I get to run around shooting people. What's not to like?


That, and it absolves me of doing any housework on a Saturday

gerrowadat

For me, it has to be the brappage. Brap brap brap.

Leftyflip

Becasue I like to see people run across my line of fire and then brap them, thats why.

Phractal

Its fun, social, friendly, nice and ADRENALINE! and its total escapism! Living your fricken dreams! ANGER management! Goot team building, ans so on. **** it, im off to bed. Post more tomorrow, I shall.

Kurbinator

hmmm the feeling you get when someone looks right at you thinks its just a bush and walks on... followed by the laugh had after the skirmish when he or she realises what happened

Gizmodeon

shooting boys
no really
boys are smelly and we should fire bb's at them

Arcto

Just the general laugh it all is.

Like the last time i went. 3 of us were in thick vegetation and one of us went 20 meters ahead as point man. When we caught up with him we shot him, whoops :pac: :P


Tactical geniuses we are

evilrobotshane

Gaming, and outside - together at last. If there were more cowboy hats I'd assume it was designed specifically to appeal to me personally.

Also I have a long-running pattern of hobbies with massive fancy equipment requirements.

T4RGET

I think it is a way for all of us to shoot people without actually getting a .50cal in our arm( or through )
But for me i love it as I meet new people, and it gets me out.
And I'm only playing a while but I have noticed that people will look out for another. People give other lifts to sites just to see them play:D

Airsoft airsoft airsoft rules!!:D basically

ps3man

shooting people then having a laugh with them after

not many places in the world you can do that...

Firekitten

you could laugh AT them after.... but they wouldnt laugh back

joekickass345

i love it because i always want to be in the military but thats a bit far away from me
also the feel of the guns and the reallism
too expensive sometimes

mcshape

I LOVE airsoft
my wife is so so about airsoft
my credit card HATES airsoft

My reasons for loving or hating the sport have changed over the last few years, I have always been into guns and camo and well, just war in general as most blokes are, Then airsoft came to me and i loved it, I loved it then for the moments.. everyone has them, camped out in a quarry somewhere on a balmy summers evening, with your team / comerades, Brothers in arms, Getting the drop on somebody in a forest and actually scaring the hell out of them... Love it!, I had some bad days in airsoft, some very bad days, times where i threw my weapons and swore id never play again.... for various reason, i looked at quitting so so many times, But then you have one great day out, and that turns it all around again. Why i now love airsoft is not for the guns and gucci, But the people i have met playing, i have come accross people from all walks of life with a common interest and just having lolz, P.S. I also love it cause i get to wear multicam! *hidez*

Michael Devers

Wow first reply after two years.

Anyways... I like to play airsoft because it's really a great sport I tell ya. Whenever I go outside I have to play airsoft... badly... with the PSN being down for ages now I've been out a lot more now playing.

I must of started when I was 13 and I've been playing airsoft for two years now and I'll never give up on it... never.

Well good luck to everyone and keep airsofting!

Spooky-Vinny

I have met such amazing people playing airsoft! Some of which have turned into very good friends now!


I often wonder what I'd be doing with my life without airsoft...
But then I'd just get upset...
xXx

Alvin T. Grey

I get to shoot Dave.

gerrowadat

I have the opportunity to mix with intellectual peers. Invigorating.

TheDoc

gerrowadat wrote: »

I have the opportunity to mix with intellectual peers. Invigorating.

Easy man or you might get a ban !

I love airsoft for the gossip,scandal and controversy. Cause its unreal how it happens, over what and why in such a small community.

MonkeyGuy

Well it's good to have a hobby and there's so many sides to Airsofting. Of course there's the skirmishing, but there's also upgrading, collecting and even just talking about it on Boards etc. The best thing I ever did in airsoft was in Oakridge a few months ago. There weren't many of us there, but we were playing a VIP game in the valley. My entire team was out except me, while the others had almost all their lives. I somehow managed to kill three bodyguards and the VIP (although it did take a hundred round mid cap on full auto non-stop to hit the VIP) but still, I was so happy! My second favourite moment was getting my new gun which I am now upgrading, so the good times are endless!

To some up, (why do I always rant?) I love the sheer amount you can do with Airsofting, as a hobby or sport.

TerrenceAnth

Terrys reasons for loving airsoft!

#1 i love guns and the military and stuff so this is as close as i can get without going into the real thing which i am planning on doing at some stage.
That and the people you meet while you play. Doesnt matter who you are or what you do people you would never talk to in normal day life become the ones covering you as you run for a flag or defuse a bomb and through this bond of working together for the same cause (to crush the blue/red team) you make some amazing friends along the way.

That and running around for a few hours keeps you fit to a degree and you dont even know how tired you are untill you get home and the leg cramp kicks in :P

Only bad thing i can see about airsoft is the massive hole it leaves in your wallet!!!

Firekitten

Wallet? What's one of those for? You're an airsofter, you shouldnt HAVE any money left

MonkeyGuy

If I could afford a wallet mine would be empty too.

TerrenceAnth

Is it bad that a swaped my wallet for a 1911 mag :P:P

MonkeyGuy

Depends on the wallet. If it wasn't designer I would say it was a good deal!

K.Flyer

Why Do I Love Airsoft....?

If I Have To Explain... You Wouldn't Understand!

(unless you play of course)

cathal_flynn

izz plaiz eirzoft cuz i zhotts noobzz