Cringe in Airsoft

[Mtemprell]

First off before I start I want to say this post is not for poking fun at people who do cringe stuff in Airsoft it's merely a discussion on what you find cringe worthy in the sport, end of the day people doing these things are still having fun and enjoying them selves so I don't intend any offense towards anyone that does these things. Keep doing you and what you enjoy. 

 

Disclaimer done. 

 

 

I was wanting to know what do others in here find most cringe worthy in Airsoft as I'm finding I have a few that I find worthy. 

 

First for me is probably people who play as if they are someone in the real SF and post online pictures of them playing but allways blank out or blur their faces. Just don't get the reasoning behind it unless your embarrassed to admit you play Airsoft, even worse are the ones who go further and on game days will hang around all day with their face covered and not interact much with others, it's like come on man we are all here to have fun at least join in on the fun and socialise. 

[tside]

Anyone who gets genuinely angry when they lose a game mode. This isn't real life or death stuff. It just makes me think they never moved past the mentality of screaming down microphones on computer games.

[Mtemprell]

2 minutes ago, tside said:

Anyone who gets genuinely angry when they lose a game mode. This isn't real life or death stuff. It just makes me think they never moved past the mentality of screaming down microphones on computer games.

Agreed. I had it last skirmish a guy shouting to me to push but he him self wasn't moving. Then moaned I didn't move. 

[Tackle]

Teams who assign themselves ranks & roles based on real steel.......

Get over yer selves ya walts 🤦‍♂️

[BIGwat]

people getting outplayed and their fragile ego's can't take it so they try to square up, had it a handful of times. They always walk away when you call their bluff. 

i miss the good old days when there was sportsmanship and could have a laugh with new people you meet 

[Tackle]

8 minutes ago, BIGwat said:

people getting outplayed and their fragile ego's can't take it so they try to square up, had it a handful of times. They always walk away when you call their bluff. 

i miss the good old days when there was sportsmanship and could have a laugh with new people you meet 

Lol, i have a sporting background where throwing hands was pretty much compulsory, & getting banned or nicked wasnt even a thing, so having to bite my lip with some of these mouthy "toy soldiers" can be really difficult, but im too pretty for prison 😜, so gotta behave.

[LMKipper]

Oh god it's people who forget that these things are pretty terrible consistency/accuracy wise and end up accusing others of not taking hits. I was marshalling a few weeks back and a player I was stood behind told another to take their hits. I had to tell him his hop was too high, because I was watching his BBs get about 3/4 feet in front of the other player then flick up and over his head. 

[EvilMonkee]

Geardos and those trying to take it too seriously.  The funniest thing I have ever seen at Airsoft (pull up a sandbag) was at the old Urban Assault site a few years back.  There was this team of geardos who spent their lunch break running through CQB drills, stacking up, clearing corners etc.  Fine, but they were doing it wrong and the Chief Geardo was getting more and more irate.  It was fucking hilarious.  Anyway, post lunch my mate and I were in an end room of a building (Urban Assault was an old RAF base) when said bunch of geardos burst in and clear the room even though we were in the same team and had been sat in the enemy less room for around 10 minutes. Utter bunch of knobs.