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Lois Gawaran
Professor Gonzaga
Personal Growth
1 November 2014
Cultural Plunge For my cultural plunge I took the chance and went Airsofting, which is a modern combat sport where participants eliminate their opponents with the use of an Airsoft gun. With the stereotype of being violent and competitive it was something I was surely afraid of trying. This experience was the opposite of what I do on a regular basis, it was a moment filled with energy, anxiety, and the feeling of being outdoors that was came out of me when I took my chance of going Airsofting. I had the opportunity to get out of my comfort level, play a role I was not certain to, enter a different environment, and take park in a new culture. Airsoft has been around for over 30 years which first started in Japan, where gun enthusiast found an alternative to the law against privately owning fire arms. Airsoft guns are replicas of real firearms but rather use plastic pellets and obtain an orange tip to distinguish that it is not real and of no major threat. Several tactical gear and accessories are used considering it is a highly competitive sport where people can get hurt. Airsoft has a variety of games ranging from a free for all shooting, capture the flag, organized scenarios, short-term skirmishes and more. Airsoft participants organize these types of games on fields (indoors or outdoors) and set clear rules and obligations. In Airsoft there is a ‘Honor Code’ that is extremely important due to the fact that it is of a person’s responsibility to call their own hits in order to keep it a fair game. The moment when we reached our destination where the Airsoft game was taken place in, I realized my friend basically took me to a big forest like area with random walls and furniture all over the place with around 50 strangers who had the same obligation of winning and having fun. I had so much adrenaline in me, for a moment regardless of the way people looked and judged me I took the initiative of
Professor Gonzaga
Personal Growth
1 November 2014
Cultural Plunge For my cultural plunge I took the chance and went Airsofting, which is a modern combat sport where participants eliminate their opponents with the use of an Airsoft gun. With the stereotype of being violent and competitive it was something I was surely afraid of trying. This experience was the opposite of what I do on a regular basis, it was a moment filled with energy, anxiety, and the feeling of being outdoors that was came out of me when I took my chance of going Airsofting. I had the opportunity to get out of my comfort level, play a role I was not certain to, enter a different environment, and take park in a new culture. Airsoft has been around for over 30 years which first started in Japan, where gun enthusiast found an alternative to the law against privately owning fire arms. Airsoft guns are replicas of real firearms but rather use plastic pellets and obtain an orange tip to distinguish that it is not real and of no major threat. Several tactical gear and accessories are used considering it is a highly competitive sport where people can get hurt. Airsoft has a variety of games ranging from a free for all shooting, capture the flag, organized scenarios, short-term skirmishes and more. Airsoft participants organize these types of games on fields (indoors or outdoors) and set clear rules and obligations. In Airsoft there is a ‘Honor Code’ that is extremely important due to the fact that it is of a person’s responsibility to call their own hits in order to keep it a fair game. The moment when we reached our destination where the Airsoft game was taken place in, I realized my friend basically took me to a big forest like area with random walls and furniture all over the place with around 50 strangers who had the same obligation of winning and having fun. I had so much adrenaline in me, for a moment regardless of the way people looked and judged me I took the initiative of