How old is to old
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I am 67 and planning to play this Saturday but I am righting checks my body is finding hard to cash
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Note that the idea of writing cheques is not something The Youth Of Today really understand ???
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To reduce movement you could try a sniper or DMR role so you can stay back and get overwatch on the situation...
Guiding the youngsters into battle ?
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Tht sounds sooo many shades of wrong
Otherwise known as watching for where they get shot from so you know where is the other team are?
Tbh yes you'll probably ache the next day or two (I know I always do), but the good thing about airsoft is that you're free to play at whatever pace you want so you don't need to be charging around all day if you don't want to
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Snap! Same as me.?
Go along on Saturday and have a great day.just play at your own pace and don't be browbeaten into anything you are not happy with. Remember you are paying so it's your game to play it as you want?
Take water out with you and have a glug now and again.
Hope the weather holds for you.
Enjoy yourself.
Let us known how it goes.
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See now, if you'd led with that this whole thread would have turned out differently.
Thing is, only you can decide when enough is enough. I'm only 51 but my knees and back are screwed, I have a friend that plays who is 26 but has three slipped discs. Tramadol for breakfast and he's running about all day better than me!
Maybe look into getting some advice from a sports physio/osteopath about exercises to strengthen any bodily weaknesses (hips/knees/ankles the usual suspects) and just take it steady.
If you're not enjoying it anymore, that's the time to quit.
I blamed aches & pains on being old
That is a contributing factor - but by drinking water or with hydration tablets/powders such as SIS or High5 I was cured
It was abuse of my body rather than just a part of being old that must be accepted
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Funnily enough I always find that running about and getting some exercise actually helps the aches and pains but I think that's more down to the "why's" of my aches and pains!
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Agreed, after even a couple of days without light, regular exercise I start to get a bit creaky. Use it or lose it.
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Had no problems before covid came but now so unfit. I have built a HPA kythera DMR and plan on using that at Wycombe but Saturday is Sentinel so Polarstar at 350 with Krytac as backup and for the indoor part. Do or die or you could say use it or loose it.
I always said it not the age but the mileage. My knees are shot after a life of plumbing and pipe fitting
Well I was having the same sort of thoughts and I’m ‘only’ 49 on Saturday, I’ve now found the type of events I want to participate in, which are more the Battlesim / Weekend events and hooked up with a great bunch of guys all roughly the same age, I find the limiting factor is my fitness and flexibility, as I’m very stiff the day after a event..
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58 here. With age comes wisdom. You dont need to run around like a teenager when you can out strategy them
We play shoot em ups on the PC every Tuesday, us oldies, our sons and grandkids, they thrash us every week with their better reactions. So we took the youngsters to play airsoft. They were slaughtered!!, unfit, no tactics, not used to carrying a weight (a rifle is not like a mouse or game controller). In short it was a bit of a shock to them and great merryment was had by the dads
We play shoot em ups on the PC every Tuesday, us oldies, our sons and grandkids, they thrash us every week with their better reactions. So we took the youngsters to play airsoft. They were slaughtered!!, unfit, no tactics, not used to carrying a weight (a rifle is not like a mouse or game controller). In short it was a bit of a shock to them and great merryment was had by the dads
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I can hold my own in Battlefield 4 TDM
"Hold my own"
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I'm 55 and I've been off from footy for a couple of weeks, and haven't done an airsoft game since May. I may not make it out of the car park game (partly down to the insane amount of kit and guns I've accumulated and insist on taking)
"Hold my own"
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"yub yub"
I'm 55 and I've been off from footy for a couple of weeks, and haven't done an airsoft game since May. I may not make it out of the car park game (partly down to the insane amount of kit and guns I've accumulated and insist on taking)
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