XPower Airsoft Paintball Anti-personnel Claymore Landmine

Grim here, airsofters! This has to be, without a doubt, one of the most awesome pieces of equipment I have ever seen! The X-Power Anit-Personnel Claymore with thermal activation just became my favorite piece of airsoft tech. Powered by C02, it appears to includes the thermal detection, tripwire and clacker activation methods and is loaded with food grade powder to mark your victims. The video says it comes out in May of 2012, so I can't wait to see what retailers are going to be smart enough to pick this up. Holy shit-balls I'm excited about this! What about you, readers? Are you excited for this little beauty? What is your favorite piece of non-firearm airsoft gear? Leave your responses in the comments section be-lowwwww. As always, play hard, play safe and never take your airsoft guns out in public.

Airsoft Squadron Sponsorship Program

Okay folks, here is the complete lists of requirements and "perks" for the Airsoft Squadron Sponsorship Program, as found on their website. As you can see, the program is broken up into three tiers, or levels, of sponsorship based mainly on a teams web presence and and video output. Looks like a great program to help smaller teams develop a following and reap some of the benefits that larger, more well known teams get. Get on it!

Tier 1 Perks

• One T-shirt for each team member 
• One Airsoft Squadron Banner per team 
• One Airsoft Squadron patch per team 
• 20,000 BBs/month (240,000 BBs/year) and one (1) $200.00 annual gift card a year per team 
• 20% off discount code for purchases at AirsoftSquadron.com 
• New products to review (and keep), additional terms may apply. 

Tier 1 Requirements:

• QTY: FOUR (4) 2-minute YouTube videos with Airsoft squadron's “Stinger” and clickable link to Insight Interactive’s YT channel in the beginning & end of the video, plus a link to Squadron site in the video description. 
• Eight (8) posts per month shared on other non-YouTube social media outlets (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, etc), sharing the videos and giving Airsoft Squadron shout-outs with a link. 
• Will need to have a Facebook/YouTube channel with 300 fans/subscribers or more. 
• Airsoftsquadron.com banner must be on display, wherever allowed, at all team events, including events outside of the ACA. 

Tier 2 Perks

• One T-shirt for each team member 
• One Airsoft Squadron Banner per team 
• One Airsoft Squadron patch per team 
• 10,000 BBs/ month (120,000 BBs/year) and one (1) $100.00 annual gift card a year per team 
• 15% off discount code for purchases at AirsoftSquadron.com 

Tier 2 Requirements:

• QTY: THREE (3), 2-minute YouTube videos with Airsoft squadron's “Stinger” and clickable link to Insight Interactive’s YT channel in the beginning & end of the video, plus link to Squadron site within the video description. 
• Six (6) posts per month on other non-YouTube social media outlets (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, etc), sharing the team videos and giving Airsoft Squadron shout-outs with a link. 
• Will need to have a Facebook/YouTube channel with 150 fans/subscribers or more 
• Airsoftsquadron.com banner must be on display, wherever allowed, at all team events, including events outside of the ACA. 

Tier 3 Perks

• One T-shirt for each team member 
• One Airsoft Squadron Banner per team 
• One Airsoft Squadron patch per team 
• 5000 BBs/month (60,000/year) for each team 
• 10% off team discount code for purchases at www.AirsoftSquadron.com 

Tier 3 Requirements:

• QTY: TWO, 2-minute YouTube videos with Airsoft Squadron's “Stinger” and clickable link to Insight Interactive in the start and end of the video plus link to Squadron Site in description. 
• Four (4) posts per month shared on other non-YouTube social media outlets (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, etc) Sharing the videos and giving Airsoft Squadron shout-outs with a link. 
• Will need to have a Facebook/YouTube channel with 50 fans/subscribers or more. 
• Airsoftsquadron.com banner must be on display, wherever allowed, at all team events, including events outside of the ACA.

OPMOD Battle Mug - OpticsPlanet.com

Tactical thirst quenching!

Shit Airsofters Say

Hah! Another great video from the guys over at Evike's channel on Youtube. I would have liked to see someone walking around asking if anyone had seen their grenade or some kids yelling that airsoft is just like Call of Duty. I always look forward to Evike's new videos because they usually try and throw some humor in there, which I appreciate. If you get a chance, subscribe to their channel and stay in the loop on some of their new products, events and reviews.

As always folks, play hard but play safe. Always wear full face and eye protection when playing airsoft and never, ever, ever, ever, ever take your airsoft guns out in public.

Freddie Wong: Executive Command

Here's a new vid from Freddiew's channel on Youtube. A bit of fan service for all you fps aficionados out there.

Airsoft Team Spotlight: Team Infidel

Goooood morning airsofters! Grim here with another airsoft community interview. There are some great airsoft teams out there, and it can be tough and even a little intimidating to get to the know them, especially if you are new to the sport. In an effort to introduce new players to some of the more established teams out there, we're starting a new segment on the blog called Team Spotlight. Today we have Brian "Warjunkie" Cruz from Team Infidel to tell us a little bit about Team Infidel:

Lego Captain America (%$&@ Yeah!) VS. Nazis

Airsoft Community Interviews: Association of Competitive Airsoft (ACA)

Ohhhhh buddy! Grim here, folks.  We have a great interview for you today! If you've been playing airsoft for any amount of time, or watching airsoft related videos on Youtube, you are no doubt familiar with the Rainbow Ops airsoft team They're the guys with the Army of Two style black and white face masks and airsoft-awesome (airsome?) Youtube channel. What you may not know is that David Karstens (Squ1d, of Rainbow Ops), one of the founding members of the team, is also the suuuuper genius behind the Association of Competitive Airsoft, or ACA. The ACA is unique in the airsoft community in that it has successful brought competitive, objective based game play to the sport of airsoft.

I've been following Rainbow and the ACA for as long as I've been playing airsoft, so naturally I thought getting some more info to you, my lovely little plastic slingers, about the ACA and what it's all about would help get the word out about it even more. With that, I reached out to David and asked if he could give us some more insight into the ACA, it's basic structure, and what it has planned for the future:

Holy. Crap! I once saw a makeshift mortar being used at SC Village in Chino, but this Hades Arrow Rocket Mortar is designed from the ground up to be a true airsoft mortar. The guys over on Scout The Doggie's Youtube channel posted this video and I just had to share it with the airsoft community. I know what's going on my Christmas list this year!

Welcome!

Hello folks, and welcome to the inaugural post for the Spic Ops Airsoft blog! I'm Grim, leader and found of SPIC Ops Airsoft Team and admin of this here airsoft blog. Here we will post reviews of gear, guns, the fields we play at and any airsoft related news we feel the need to share with the airsofting community.

But first, some history! I've been playing airsoft consistently for about two years now, but prior to that it had a few years since a friend of mine invited me out to Tac City in South El Monte for an evening of airsoft. Or for me, it was an evening of running around, rushing to cover and getting shot in the face when I would poke my head over cover like a n00b. However, that cemented my love for the sport and ever since then I have been a supporter and airsoft aficionado.


After seeing airsoft videos from awesome teams like Rainbow Airsoft, Infidel Airsoft, and videos Scoutthedoggie, Evike, and AirsoftGI I decided it was time to step up my game and graduate from swap meet quality AK 47's. Within the last couple of years I've taken the sport more seriously and have been gathering quality gear, guns and refining my play. I've also recently gotten my brother addicted to the sport, so we now play together whenever possible and have formed a loose sort of team which I've dubbed Spic Ops. You'll also be seeing/reading reviews from both of us on this blog from time to time and hopefully some play videos in the near future, once we get a helmet cam.

My brother and I are always looking for some positive, committed players to hang out with, so if you are interested in meeting up one day to sling some plastic, feel free to contact us!