Airsoft Action - October 2023

AA LEGION
TAIWAN
and HTA Studio, player organisations such as my
skirmish team Taiji Alliance, as well as Yilan county
and Keelung airsoft associations and Taiwan Shooter’s
Union, retailers such as Hawk, No.9 and Minutemen
as well as Tianqing Training & Consulting, Dan Leather
Studio and Shihang Industrial company.
WRAPPING UP
As the gameplay drew to a close I was actually the
last rifleman to throw down and close off one of the
stages, and our scores were readily tabulated thanks
to the integrated mobile phone application collating
everyone’s final scores. It was quite a good haul for
team SPPT; team captain ‘Mars’ Liu HanLin took first
place in red dot enabled rifle, with me managing to
swag third place… just like my other rifle competition
a few years ago! Our other teammate Dan DingXuan
took third in non-optic pistol, and I actually placed
sixth in that division, which I was fairly happy with
given that there were twenty-four participants in it in
the end.
Zheng JiaHua of team Spring Rain took first place
in pistol without optics, with Tsai YuQi on his heels
in second; red dot pistol saw our friend ‘Tom’ Lau
JiaYu take first place, Lin WeiJian in second, and Shi
JiaHao in third. The Elementary school division saw
Huang ZhiXuan in first, Xie HaoYu in second, and Xie
QiaoYu in third; middle-schooler Chen YuCheng took
first, with Xu WenZhe in second and Shen HongYan
in third, and in the high school
division Zhao ZiXiang took first, Jiang
ChengHao in second and Lin YanWu
in third place.
A special mention should go to our
good friend ‘Doobie’ Zhuang YiXuan
(a friend of our team, and many in
the community and one of the guys
at KIC Airsoft who regularly help
me out sourcing guns, optics and
components) who took second place
in optics-enabled rifle between myself
and Mars, with a time nearly two
seconds faster than my own; we were
really chasing speed on stages and
shooting one after another in most
cases so we got to film each other,
what makes it all the more inspiring is that ‘Doobie’ is
his nickname as it’s derived from the Chinese for ‘lone
arm’; Zhuang’s missing his right forearm from just
below the elbow which obviously presents a challenge
for weapons manipulation, but despite this he trains
at SPPT’s home facility when he isn’t running the shop
or getting enthusiastically getting stuck in to MilSims,
skirmishing or even recent SUT training events; you
rarely see him anything other than cheerful and
positive and he never lets his physical impediment
diminish his participation in our hobby, and continues
to excel at it regardless. Outstanding effort, my friend!
Many thanks as always to all who organised and
participated in another great competitive event,
and I hope to see such things continue to grow in
popularity and further push legitimate shooting
pastimes into a more mainstream and accepted
space. Thanks as well to the ROs who worked a long
day setting up, running and dismantling everything,
and to the retailers and manufacturers who directly
supported the event as well as being present to add
retail and demonstration aspects for the participants
and raise public awareness. But of course thanks
most of all to Anny, who spent the entire day
ducking around between stages trying to capture as
many of the moments she could; it’s great to have
someone else help with the coverage especially if I am
competing and can’t be everywhere at once!
More of our cooperative exploits to come…until
next time, fellow shooters. AA
“MANY THANKS AS ALWAYS TO ALL WHO ORGANISED AND PARTICIPATED IN ANOTHER GREAT
COMPETITIVE EVENT, AND I HOPE TO SEE SUCH THINGS CONTINUE TO GROW IN POPULARITY
AND FURTHER PUSH LEGITIMATE SHOOTING PASTIMES INTO A MORE MAINSTREAM AND
ACCEPTED SPACE”
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OCTOBER 2023