Airsoft Action - March 2020

THE LEGION
AA GLOBAL CONTRIBUTORS
Surgeon Championship”, culminating this
year with the event and the UK’s National
Exhibition Centre, which is reported
elsewhere in this issue.
Before he flew back to Hong Kong,
Clarence commented “I am really delighted
to be working with and writing for my
friends at Airsoft Action. Without doubt it
is the best airsoft magazine in the world
and now it is going global, it will give us
the opportunity to reach even more players
and shooter alike.”
STU MORTIMER –
STEWBACCA - TAIWAN
With over 14 years of experience playing
airsoft in the UK & Spain and now residing
and playing in Taiwan, Stu (Stewbacca)
started it all back at First & Only Matlock,
UK back in late 2005. Living and working
in Taiwan for the past two and a half years,
he’s made closer connections with the
airsoft community as well as numerous
manufacturers based there. Having already
visited Bolt, Modify, and ICS facilities to
report for TacticalTwo, as well as previously
collaborating with Airsoft Action to
share his airsoft related activities and
international shows held in Taiwan. He also
writes English language articles for local
magazine “Combat King Monthly” in his
spare time and has reported on events in
Taiwan’s remote PengHu islands, as well as
Mainland China with them. Having formed
the expat and local English speaker’s
“TaiWan Anglophone Team” skirmish
group, he’s already attended nearly one
hundred games in the few short years he’s
been in-country, as well as recently taking
up Action Air IPSC shooting with the Taipei
based SPPT team.
HANA - CHINA
Chinese proverb: “Out of blows, friendship
grows.”
Hana joins us from China and she is the
Chief Marketing Officer at OneTigris,
a company whose equipment we love
and use ourselves! At one time entirely
ignorant of airsoft, Hana started playing
with her team in China but has also now
participated in a MilSim and events in the
USA, and she fully comprehends the joys
of building friendship through teamwork
and BBs! In her words “I saw how people
of different age, race, sex and cultural
background could be united through their
passion for airsoft. What I love about it is
that each experience on the field is filled
with determination and belief brought
about by games and tactics and when we
leave the field, each of us somehow carries
this sense of preparedness and adventure
to other stages of life itself.”
BJORN KLOCKAR - SWEDEN
Björn, more commonly known as just as
“Klockar”, joins The Legion from Sweden
and started playing airsoft in the late
1990´s. Initially just a player like all of us,
he really got rolling in 2013 and now he’s
here! He plays and hosts games mainly
at Tjärnan Airsoft Field, possibly one of
Sweden’s best CQB fields and enjoys
both skirmish games as well as more
MilSim oriented events. Bjorn has had
collaborations with lots of companies and
brands over the years, and now works
directly with Evolution Airsoft as well as
numerous kit manufacturers. He tells us:
“It’s a huge honour to be picked to be in
the “Legion” of Airsoft Action magazine.
I’ve been in touch with Nige and Bill over
the years and have been on the cover of it
three times now, always in my snowcamo!
I hope I can bring some great photos
and interesting articles for you all in the
future!”
STEF - NETHERLANDS
Stef is another player that we know and
love for his enthusiasm for all things airsoft
and he, like some of the other AA writers,
sits proudly in the “older and bolder”
category! Born in 1970 in the naval city
of Den Helder in the Netherlands, Stef
is a painter by profession. His airsoft
adventures started in 2014 with “local”
skirmishes in the Netherlands but he was
soon travelling abroad to larger games,
such as the National Airsoft Event in the UK
and Borderwar in the Czech Republic. His
view is that “the great thing about airsoft
is that you make many new friends from all
over the world.”
JONATHAN - IRELAND
Another “old friend” who has been
involved with the magazine for some
years is Jonathan, age 45, Irish gamer and
MilSimmer! Jonathan has been playing in
Ireland for twelve years, running sites for
six, and currently owns and runs two! Like
many of us at AA he is a self-confessed
“real steel freak”, loves sound tactics,
and is always pushing gaming to the max.
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