Even though you “play” air soft, air soft guns are not toys. The same precautions taken with real steel should be followed with air soft guns as well. While this is not a comprehensive list, following safety guidelines below will help you stay safe.

• First and foremost, always treat gun as if it were loaded. Given BBs small size, it is markedly harder to tell if an air soft gun is loaded than it is to determine if a real gun, which uses bigger ammunition, is loaded. • Use gun’s safety when you are not actively using it. After removing safety, you should keep your finger out of trigger guard until right before you are ready to shoot. This will help minimize “friendly fire” incidents and keep everyone safer. • Never point air soft gun at something you’re not going to shoot. This goes for when gun is loaded or not. • Never store your air soft gun loaded. Double and triple check to make sure gun is completely unloaded before storing it, and always store ammunition separate from gun.

A final note on safety: one disadvantage to air soft gun’s looking like a real gun is that law enforcement officers and others usually cannot tell difference between two. There have been several incidents where an air soft gun was mistaken for a real gun, and terrible things have happened because of mistake. Only use your air soft gun in controlled environments, and if it is possible that someone may see you and confuse your gun for a real one, best thing to do is to contact local law enforcement agency and tell them what you are doing.

Air soft can be fun, exciting, and intense. Given nature of sport, it is also dangerous, and no matter how careful you are, injury may be sustained. However, following guidelines outlined in user manuals and this article, likelihood of your getting hurt can be greatly reduced.

For your first sprint kayaks, you should definitely be looking for kayaks that are slightly more sturdy and less likely to tip over. Don't spend too much time looking for this, however, since even sprint kayaks that are less likely to tip over will tip when you are first learning how to use them.

When you first get your sprint kayak out on lake (or wherever you happen to be sprinting) you should start getting used to it as soon as possible. While you'll probably have great skills in a regular recreational or touring kayak, sprint kayaks operate a little differently. You should expect to tip over first time you are in a sprint kayak, so you should work on righting yourself when that happens and keeping yourself upright afterward.

After you've learned how to use your first sprint kayak, you might want to look at a few more sprint kayaks. The reason for this is that after you've learned how to paddle a sprint kayak, you should be able to learn how to use another kayak that is better suited toward highlighting your own skills.