Airsoft Action - January 2021

FEATURE
ACTION AIR - TAIWAN
my newer gun and gear set up, as well as being a lot
more practised with it and stage planning this time
round, I had a much better overall outcome, which
was evidently reflected in the results too.
Despite the no-shoots being used over mostly
the more distant targets, I still managed to come
away with a reasonable time of 28:54 and only got
6 Charlies (mostly on the longer, obscured targets
behind no-shoots that I was being overly cautious
of keeping clean - no innocent bystanders please!),
with 24 Alphas and no other news to speak of. My
reloading and aiming had felt more fluid and some
of my double taps had been pretty snappy, albeit
sacrificing a little accuracy in some cases. But, I felt
far improved and arguably less nervous, or at least
flustered, as I had been at my first competition due to
the final stage failures. The writing’s on the wall… or
at least the scores!
Following the breakdown of the final stage and
a bit of stop, everyone gathered to find out their
individual overall stage times and scores, which had
been tabulated and printed out and stuck on the wall,
while the Divisional winners and runners up were
being finalized, ready for announcement.
In the end I’d accrued 345 of the possible 360
points and taken a total of 85.14 seconds across all
four stages, with 63 Alphas, and just 10 Charlies, so
I was very happy with my individual shooting. I felt I
could maybe have pushed myself to be a little faster
but as I - and the IPSC motto - always say, “Diligentia”
comes before “Celeras”. At least this has given me a
solid baseline of skills to build on - and get faster at
employing in future shoots!
THE WINNERS
With the final scores tabulated, the winners and
runners up for each of the three divisions were
announced and trophies presented. Open division was
taken by Jia Yu Liu, with Jia Hua Zheng taking second
place and Bo Xian Hou in third, out of a total of 15
competitors. Standard division was won out by Yu Qi
Tsai, second place being taken by Ding Xuan Ah and
Jiao Pin Du in third, out of a total of 14 competitors.
Finally, Production division was a very close call
between first and second place, with “Patty” Pei Shan
Huang just gaining an edge over second place Yu Xi
Liu and Yao Zhong Li taking third place. My fifth place
score was around 16% behind Patty’s and 5% behind
third place, out of the total of eight competitors who
seemed quite well matched in speed and abilities from
what I saw of our rounds.
SUMMING UP
From my first competition in April and placing 5th out
of 6 shooters in the Production division (plus having
an absolute mare of a last round), I’d risen to 5th out
of 8 shooters and acquitting myself far better this time
round, without any of the obvious “I just made a hash
of that didn’t I?” moments. I certainly felt more like I
belonged there this time round, having trained hard
alongside the team for longer and getting to know
the ropes and more of the community in general.
It’s been a continuing pleasure to get involved
with Action Air in Taiwan, among all my other
shooting-related activities since getting here. Now
we’re working towards our next competition, which
should (hopefully) be in December and I’ve recently
purchased the STAGE electronic mobile app-driven
target system (from TMC in Taipei) to start measuring
my speed and progress, which is already helping in my
training since the competition.
Hopefully I can continue to....
#GoFasterTryNotToSuckQuiteSoMuch! AA
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