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IT AIN’T ALWAYS EASY!
WITH THE SLOW PACE OF AIRSOFT OVER THE HOLIDAY PERIOD, FRENCHIE STRUGGLED TO FIND SOMETHING OF (AIRSOFT) INTEREST FOR THIS MONTH’S COLUMN AND HIS THOUGHTS TURNED INWARDS. WE’LL LET HIM EXPLAIN...
H
appy New Year one and all! I realise this piece may well appear after the event but it’s the first piece I have written in 2022, hence the good wishes. I’ve had a whole month to contemplate a subject for this issue and I have failed miserably. A whole December of nothingness, the muse has definitely decided to take some time off. Now granted, preparing for family Christmas may have got in the way a bit, my one unvaccinated child contracting flu was a bit of a distraction (for the record, he actually managed to catch a non-Covid related flu bug - they still exist it seems!) and finally the fact that airsoft as a sport and industry doesn’t actually move particularly quickly, all conspired to leave me banging my head off the table. I even resorted to trawling through my files of previous articles, looking for inspiration or a subject that needed to be revisited because of significant changes. Nope, nothing. Comms remain comms, multitools are still useful, upgrades are still worth doing sometimes and BBs are still spherical. Major events just don’t happen that often in airsoft if we’re being honest about it. I’m not knocking the sport itself. Quite apart from shooting myself in the foot, that would be like complaining that football games are always played in the same way, or that they haven’t embraced the excitement of a cuboid football. The game persists, each one the same but each one different because
none of us play the same way every time; situations are different, challenges are different, players are different, but the broader airsoft universe remains largely unchanged around us. I have mentioned the slow pace of technological innovation before, and in fairness there are good reasons for that, mainly because when Marui invented the AEG, they got it pretty much right the first time. (As an aside, there is probably an article or two about
“I’M NOT KNOCKING THE SPORT ITSELF. QUITE APART FROM SHOOTING MYSELF IN THE FOOT, THAT WOULD BE LIKE COMPLAINING THAT FOOTBALL GAMES ARE ALWAYS PLAYED IN THE SAME WAY, OR THAT THEY HAVEN’T EMBRACED THE EXCITEMENT OF A CUBOID FOOTBALL.”
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