Airsoft Action July 2020 | Page 18

feature AA SPECIAL AIRSOFT IN JAPAN AIRSOFT IN JAPAN THE AIRSOFT ACTION LEGION CONTINUES TO GROW, BRINGING IN STORIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD AND SO ILLUSTRATE WHAT A TRULY GLOBAL AIRSOFT COMMUNITY WE REALLY HAVE. FOR THIS ISSUE WE ARE JOINED FOR THE FIRST TIME BY RAI TO BRING US HIS “AIRSOFT OVERVIEW” DIRECT FROM JAPAN, THE “CULTURAL HOME OF AIRSOFT”! Greetings everyone, my name is Rai here in Japan; I‘m an American airsoft player who has been a longtime fan of airsoft and teching and I now work with Laylax. I also run my own international airsoft team here in Japan aimed at bringing players from all nationalities within Japan together to help in understanding regulations, rules, and finding fields to play at. Japanese is hard, so I do my best to help my fellow international players. I would like to start by showing my fellow airsoft players across the globe how airsoft in Japan differs from other countries. When it comes to usual “site rules” and what happens… • 1 Joule/ 98m/s 320 FPS limit • No surrender/mercy/freeze calls • No MED (minimum engagement distances) • Usually Semi-only 18 july 2020