I first ran into this crazy, bearded, hawaiian shirt wearing guy named Pagan at Operation Island Thunder in 2011. By 2012 I'd started to team up with Relarz and the RAGE guys or Pagan and the rest of the Suicide Kings whenever I ran into them at games.
I was there too
@Gimpalong ! I Also played with SK at that game before joining the team.
I acquired my first airsoft gun [an HFC M92 FS Spring Pistol] at the age of 12 (back in 1999) and I played airsoft through most of high school with a group of friends which were mostly backyard games, but we started organizing larger games with 20-30 people on private property just outside of the Plymouth-Canton area. Unless there was anyone playing airsoft prior to 2001 in Plymouth-Canton, then I like to think of myself as the "John Smith" of airsoft to Plymouth-Canton.
I got out of airsoft towards the end of high school and started playing paintball since I knew more people who played that, but I always preferred airsoft over paintball. Woodsball was starting to become obsolete and replaced with speedball which made me like playing paintball even less.
I took a break from playing both for about 4 years while I was finishing high school and starting college but decided to get back into paintball since I had a couple buddies in college who also played paintball. Right before I committed to buying a Tippmann A5 package, I decided to browse the internet and see if airsoft guns were still a thing.
To my surprise I saw that there were WAY more AEGs than back in the late 90s and early 2Ks from when I was more familiar with airsoft. Instead of buying that Tippmann A5, I bought a Tokyo Marui P90 instead and the rest has been history!
I discovered MIA towards the end of 2008 after I decided to get back into airsoft instead of paintball and I first started playing with Snafu and his group of friends in Canton/Ann Arbor. Those were "backyard" games but with adults at a small built up field in Canton and then at a farm out in Ann Arbor. I also played games out at
@Yankee 's private field.
Otherwise, I was also playing at more official venues like Farmington CQB when the Hellfish were hosting those games. I played at MTAC when that was around, and played outdoor airsoft at No Limits while the Hellfish were hosting games there, but also attended some Task Force Iris events at Hell's Survivors (Durbond I & II), played airsoft at Bangor and Charlotte, attended one of Sky Pilot's events at Futureball, made it out to one event at Lowell, and of course at SFOD for a few years.
My buddy "BUnit" and I met Piper at a game at SFOD and joined Immortal in 2009 and I was on Immortal until 2012 when I joined SK. But the thing that I love the most about airsoft is that it doesn't matter what "team" or "side" you are on because at the end of the day, all that matters is that you're having fun enjoying this hobby. I wouldn't do anything any differently even if I could since I met so many awesome people along the way and have so many great memories.
Now I mostly just ref games at Action Paintball once a month with SK, and of course still attend larger national events with the community and make it out to the Bastard's events as often as I can. I have a 14 year old cousin who got into the sport and enjoys playing with me when he can and my friend who I got back into the sport with will be getting out of the Navy in less than a year and is coming back to the state since he already has a job lined up and will be getting back to playing with me.
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