Airsoft Action 01 - Oct 2011 | Page 33

YOUNG GUNS FEATURE Hello fellow Airsofters! You might be looking at this page and thinking “What on earth is ‘Young Guns Airsoft?’”, well here’s the explanation… A irsoft attracts both older and younger players – you probably call the younger ones ‘noobs’, ‘newbies’ or even ‘target practice’! I am probably a more experienced airsoft player than most of the people I play with. I am a young gun airsofter and this is all about youths’ opinion on airsoft. I’ll also be writing reviews of different sites and many things which some older players didn’t realise us ‘youngens’ have an opinion about. So, keep reading every issue and there will be many different views and stories from me about many different things. But how rude of me! I didn’t introduce myself. My name is Jeremy Blume (though I prefer to be called Jezz). I’m 16 years old and have been airsofting since I was 11. In the five years I’ve been playing I have been to a lot of popular sites across the UK and have played internationally many times, probably more than most players. I recently led my local team from Ground Zero, named Delta, to victory against very determined opposition. So you could say I am a trueborn airsofter. How did I get into airsoft? Five years ago my dad (Neill Blume) mentioned that he had been told about a sport just like paintball but apparently more realistic. So my dad being my dad, he went to his first airsoft game, which I think was at either Combat South or Ground Zero. When he got back he told me how awesome it was, how it www.airsoftactionmagazine.com 033