Airsoft, team discipline based on the simulation of military tactics
Making war to find peace ... of the senses? It is the goal of the softgunners, the players of Softair, or rather of the “Sport tactical shooting”, a team discipline based on the simulation of military tactics that conquers more and more Milanese.
So in the summer, outdoor combat-game appointments explode, which can even last a whole weekend.
But what drives fans, fully armed (with more or less faithful replicas of real weapons, often more expensive than the originals) and in camouflage, to challenge each other in woods and lands outside the city with shots, mostly biodegradable? "It's an unusual hobby - acknowledges Francesco Monteverde, president of the Wolflings Softair association in Milan, which with its 40 members is one of the oldest groups in Lombardy and perhaps in Italy, in business for 16 years, - in which they count a lot of honesty and team spirit, even goliardic, rather than physicality and competitive spirit ».
"A game of ours? It could be compared - he explains - to a snowball fight, with more technology, trekking, orienteering and survival ». "Under the banner of sport, joy, friendship and aggregation - underlines Marcello" Wave "Ruscio, president of Calico Jack AirSoft Team, one of the youngest of the seven Milanese associations, born in August 2009 from the separation from another group - we download the stress accumulated during the week ».
"Love and respect for nature - echoes Fabio" Street "of the 1st Compagnia Diavoli, born in January and awaiting official registration like the others - push us, in any physical or weather condition, to get up early on Sunday to play and end the day with a party ». Who are the new Rambos from Milan "who play war, but repudiate it in reality"? University students, workers and even 50-year-old managers, «even a dentist who has the role of first aid
source: I read