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War... what is it good for?
Oct. 2nd, 2006 11:30 pmWhen I woke up on Sunday morning, my body was a multiverse of bruises, aches, stings, rashes, scratches, and unidentified misc. pain. But they had been achieved in a good way.
So I've been doing something unusual every weekend for a little while.. lately it's all been terribly civilised: national trust properties, (urban) golf tournament, but this weekend I went the other way.. All out war.
Friday night had seen me head off to Cambridge in the evening, and go out for a couple of drinks, and then get rudely awakened at eight in the morning to head off to an old WW2 army base in Cambridgeshire. We were there to play in a huge "airsoft" game, a series of skirmishes that went from 9am to 6pm. (Airsoft is, apparently, the name given to these games played with replica weapons that fire BBs - quite hard). There were 60 of us, and the area available to play in was large.
It was loads of fun, despite my hangover, and I was running around and throwing myself into bushes with the best of them. And nettle patches. And brambles.
I found it a lot more fun than the last lot of paintballing I did at electrowerkz. Having a big, open, environment, meant there was more variation, and shoot-outs could last a while.. There was room for a lot more tactics than in the closed corridors of Electrowerkz. Also, you were allowed to respawn (come back to life) much quicker than at paintball games. (You just have to find an "alive" member of your team, and count to ten loudly by them. With paintball, you've normally had to trek all the way back to your base, clean off the paint, and wait for 5-10 minutes.)
So, yeah, I'd recommend it as a fun outing. However, it was totally exhausting. I consider myself to be reasonably fit (not especially athletic or anything, but I can walk/cycle/hike for a long time without getting knackered), but sprinting around carrying a heavy gun, jumping through windows and crawling through bushes really takes it out of you after eight hours!
I got back to London Saturday evening, and crashed out in bed by 10:30pm.. Which has to be the earliest I've been asleep for a very, very long time - let alone a saturday night!
In other good news: It appears that I have actually managed to lose weight over summer! :D
So I've been doing something unusual every weekend for a little while.. lately it's all been terribly civilised: national trust properties, (urban) golf tournament, but this weekend I went the other way.. All out war.
Friday night had seen me head off to Cambridge in the evening, and go out for a couple of drinks, and then get rudely awakened at eight in the morning to head off to an old WW2 army base in Cambridgeshire. We were there to play in a huge "airsoft" game, a series of skirmishes that went from 9am to 6pm. (Airsoft is, apparently, the name given to these games played with replica weapons that fire BBs - quite hard). There were 60 of us, and the area available to play in was large.
It was loads of fun, despite my hangover, and I was running around and throwing myself into bushes with the best of them. And nettle patches. And brambles.
I found it a lot more fun than the last lot of paintballing I did at electrowerkz. Having a big, open, environment, meant there was more variation, and shoot-outs could last a while.. There was room for a lot more tactics than in the closed corridors of Electrowerkz. Also, you were allowed to respawn (come back to life) much quicker than at paintball games. (You just have to find an "alive" member of your team, and count to ten loudly by them. With paintball, you've normally had to trek all the way back to your base, clean off the paint, and wait for 5-10 minutes.)
So, yeah, I'd recommend it as a fun outing. However, it was totally exhausting. I consider myself to be reasonably fit (not especially athletic or anything, but I can walk/cycle/hike for a long time without getting knackered), but sprinting around carrying a heavy gun, jumping through windows and crawling through bushes really takes it out of you after eight hours!
I got back to London Saturday evening, and crashed out in bed by 10:30pm.. Which has to be the earliest I've been asleep for a very, very long time - let alone a saturday night!
In other good news: It appears that I have actually managed to lose weight over summer! :D