Beginner to Milsims

[Spatch]

The other thing to note is quite how seriously milsims are taken and the amount of equipment required, if you are just starting airsoft then you will really to take the advice of playing 'normal' games for a while, milsim is a serious business, serious money and serious kit involved

 

[NickM]

Typical, I just typed a long response to you MMN and the computer just had a fit and deleted it. My understanding of the safeguarding responsibilities, as outlined in many documents but you could check out Safeguarding vulnerable groups act of 2006, the children act 1989, and the safeguarding act 2014, I haven't read it all, most of my understanding comes from teacher training. Vulnerable groups relates to children, young people and vulnerable adults.

As for the exact legislation you ask for, no I can't. But:

In England the law states if you work with young people you have a duty to keep them safe.

My understanding of the things I have read over the years are that:

if you are staff or volunteers (or a supervisor overseeing the previous two groups) running "activities" for "vulnerable groups", for 4 or more days out of a 30 day period or overnight then keeping them safe means a safeguarding system needs to be in place in order to fufill the requirement above.

But it could be my interpretation that's hinky.

I wouldn't want to be the lawyer trying to defend a private business from an allegation when it's discovered they were supervising young people and their staff hadn't been checked out properly.

Shops don't run activities or supervise children. Almost all of the airsoft companies I've seen simply don't allow unaccompanied young people and therefore aren't needing to supervise the young people themselves.

If it helps, to get a taxi licence you need a DBS (the new version of a CRB).

 

[clumpyedge]

Airborne Airsoft is in Hampshire. Longmoor site is amazing. Not sure on age limit.

18+ mate - not sure about the other groups that book there

 

[Pompeyairsofter36]

Airborne Airsoft is in Hampshire. Longmoor site is amazing. Not sure on age limit.

I've been to longmoor Airbourne, but their milsim is over 18

 

[NickM]

No reason you cant treat your average skirmish a bit more milsim than everyone else. Think of them as training for milsim, partly physical fitness wise partly building up skill.

When you skirmish start to limit your ammo, and use semi predominantly. Think about movement, concealment and observing.

Take shots carefully, think about the situations where you are probably going to lose and think carefully about if you could actually take the shot or move and try again.

Work at reducing the number of times you head to respawn, by using the skills above rather than just ignoring hits.

You will find that many milsim organisers are also skirmish organisers (I can only think of one that isn't) and get known as a good honest player. You may find that by the time you are 16 you have some older friends and the organiser will be happier letting you come along with them. Some don't use 18 but 16 although you may have to travel a bit.

 

[Baz JJ]

Try Gunman Airsoft at Eversley - they have a lower minimum age for their milsims.

I'm in portsmouth and under 16.

 

[NickM]

Get yourself a 6shooter and turn up as billy the kid in their regular flying lead series.

Nothing like a wild west sim.

I keep joking about it but really I want to give it a go quite badly!