Be aggressive, be be, AGGRESSIVE!

Whenever I played basketball this year, and the cheerleaders would sing this stupid cheer, I would roll my eyes. What kind of athlete doesn’t realize the aim of the game is to “be aggressive”? It wasn’t until I started playing airsoft that I realized some athletes don’t.

In basketball, unaggressive players are benched. In airsoft, we don’t get this luxury. Players who hide behind walls and defend when they are supposed to be attacking, are as useful on the field as Anne Frank’s drumkit. If you’re the team that is supposed to be attacking, please, attack. Move up. Use grenades to your advantage, and get the team as close as possible to the objective.

All it takes to be aggressive in airsoft is practice, and more importantly, confidence. Three weeks into playing airsoft regularly, I blew up the Armadillo with the satchel and won a game. Nothing has ever beat that moment in airsoft for me, because it was freaking terrifying, but I did it anyways. That’s a cool feeling; it’s what airsoft is all about. But you’ll never get that feeling in anything you do in life, if you don’t take the risk firstly, but also don’t know what the hell you’re doing.

Visualize, visualize, visualize. See what you want to do, and then do it. Don’t go in blindly. If you know exactly what you’re going to do, it turns out to be pretty easy (but still looks impressive). I promise, running out into the open has never worked (the adrenaline is nice; the spray of bb’s is not). Airsoft is a mental game, what makes it addictive is that every situation is different, every challenge knew. A skilled player isn’t one who has the physical ability to do barrel rolls and jump through windows, it’s the ones who can put those abilities to use in well and quickly thought out tactics (the best are the ones who can do both.)

The aggressive player is always on the move. Take advantage of every hole, window, and door way; always know where the enemy is. At the same time, move around, change buildings even if it’s not to your advantage, so the enemy doesn’t know where you are. You’re goal is to see but not be seen, and surprise the enemy. At first, make it you’re goal just to move up as far as possible, as a newb, never fall back and defend; regardless if it’s good for the objective, focus on developing your own player skills first.

And for once, listen to those cheerleaders, the ones that don’t get pregnant can be pretty smart.

“If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.”

Honor, skill, maintenance.

ThatGirl