The popularity of sport likely stems from how realistic guns and scenarios are. Almost all air soft guns are modeled after a real gun model (known as “real steel”), modeling even reloading mechanism and weight. Players typically wear camouflage and work together as teams to win game. Like paintball, when someone gets hit they are out of game, either until a new game starts or until a predetermined amount of time has passed.

Air Soft Guns and Equipment

There are three main types of systems that an air soft gun may use to shoot a BB. Electric powered guns, or AEGs (automatic electric guns), use a battery pack to power shooting mechanism in gun. These guns are by far most popular and, given their typically higher quality, most expensive of three types. One advantage of AEGs is that spare batteries are smaller and lighter than spare gas canisters, so carrying backup power in field is easier.

Gas powered guns operate on a similar system to that of most paintball guns. A gas canister, either attached to gun via a hose or physically attached to gun, pressurizes gas that is released to propel BB out of barrel of air soft gun. One neat feature that is becoming more popular with gas-powered guns is call blowback. Right after gun shoots BB, a small amount of gas is used to power reload mechanism. While this uses more gas, it greatly increases speed at which one can fire in succession.

Spring-loaded guns are perhaps least popular, simply because they do not feature semi- or fully-automatic capabilities. The spring must be recocked every time after firing, obviously decreasing rapid succession firing capabilities of a player.

Air Soft Safety

Sprint kayaks are best type of kayaks for people who are intending to race. While you will probably not need to have your own kayak when you first start out (if you are racing on a school team of some type), eventually you will probably want to get your own sprint kayak that will highlight your particular skills and make it easier for you to race.

Before learning how to paddle sprint kayaks, however, you'll need to be very experienced with other types of kayaks. The reason for this is that most sprint kayaks are designed to be very fast, which means that they are slender and designed to cut through water and minimize drag. The result is that some of these kayaks will even tip over when they are set in water with nobody inside. As you can imagine, keeping sprint kayaks upright requires quite a bit of skill.