How Airsoft Guns Helped Me Improve My Physical and Mental Health?

Riley Derrick
4 min readSep 18, 2019

Airsoft guns have become extremely popular these days, mainly due to airsoft sport or activity. Airsoft games have emphasized people to engage in some outdoor activities. These activities are more enjoyable than any other activity people take part in.

What’s the key to this? Well, airsoft is one of the activities that promise excitement and thrill. We talk about hunting is the most thrilling activity, but airsoft has certainly provided more thrill than hunting.

Other than thrill and excitement, airsoft offers much more. You are equipped with airsoft rifles and you move around and run around the field. This helps a great deal in improving your physical and mental health.

I have been playing with these guns for a long time now. I believe they have played a huge role in improving my health. In this article, I will determine how using these guns improved my health.

Airsoft Games Provided Social and Health Benefits

Basically, I use airsoft games for two activities, playing airsoft games and target practice. Both these activities are seriously enjoyable. They offer unending fun and excitement. But, airsoft gaming plays a key role in improving my social relations and health. Now, let me tell you how it assists me in this regard.

Airsoft is not a game of single player; there is always a number of players that are divided into two groups or teams. So, you need to have a few friends that can be engaged in the sport with you. If you play this sport locally, you can involve your fellows, colleagues and even family members. But, you don’t meet professional airsofters.

If you join an airsoft community, you interact with plenty of professional airsofters. You can learn from these professionals and improve your airsoft skills. Once you join a community, you are guaranteed to make new friends and enhance your social circle. Excessive social relations also played a key role in the improvement of my mental health.

Airsoft games increase your mental strength and reduce any sort of stress. It is understandable that we all face stress while working at a workplace or we suffer from stress due to some family tensions. But, when you head to an airsoft field with your airsoft gun, you leave all these tensions behind and focus on playing the game.

This results in removal of stress, specifically, when you manage to pick up a win in the end. Playing games like President and Capture the Flag allowed me to broaden my mind and improving my strategy building skills. In such games, you need to have a sharp mind to react quickly and make good tactics to win the game.

I use to lift heavy guns at times on the field, specifically when I am playing as a Sniper. This is where I am equipped with airsoft sniper rifle and run around the field to survive the BBs. This is a great physical activity that built my stamina.

I remember I could hardly run when I started playing airsoft but playing games like Close Quarters Combat and Zombie, I could enhance my stamina and physical strength. Now, I play games that last many hours, but I never feel tired while playing these games.

While playing with airsoft guns, the foremost advantage one can gain is better physical health. You don’t just improve your stamina, you also gain immense strength in your muscles and other body organs. These games are actually a real physical activity because you are always running around in order to survive or eliminate the players of other teams. So, this physical led to my wellbeing.

Target Practice Played Its Role in My Wellbeing

Another activity that I often do with airsoft guns is target practice. Yes, airsoft sport is a more thrilling and exciting activity, but target practice has its own charm. I use to build a wooden target and place it at a reasonable distance. Then, we used our airsoft pistols to hit the target. The person who hit the target more often won the game. With this activity, I improved my target hitting skills.

Not just I improved my skills, I also improved my health. After all, I used airsoft guns to hit the target. Every weekend, we had a long walk to the forest to make sure we are away from human interference. Hence, we stayed safe and also made sure that other remain safe as well.

Winning the target practice competition left a lot of positives for me. I could concentrate better on my work after a relaxing feeling in my mind about the win I had at the weekend. Also, this encouraged me to head back to the forest again on Sunday. So, playing with airsoft rifles proved to be extremely advantageous for my health.

Originally published at http://cutlerywholesale.home.blog on September 18, 2019.

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