Winnipeg Free Press Article

[Rukus]

+1 for that, great article.

[Captain Tenneal]

Great article, just saw it at work.

I have a feeling there'll be a LOT of people coming to noob day this october... :S

[Savage Haggis]

Well, would you look at that.

It's about damn time...

Nice job.

[Styrak]

Originally Posted by redmond

Bolt action M14? Good article though. They should of mentioned customs.

Indeed. I was like "ugh, the media again, trying to explain things and sound 'cool' or adding unneeded prefixes or suffixes to everything".
But not a bad article in it's entirety.

EDIT: Oh and yeah GIRL PLAYING?! Awesome!

[Hortons Heros]

very cool, big thanks to whoever was involved with this article

[Lakonian]

Cool stuff.

Who did she play with? Any guys from ASC? I saw "Wolfpack" being mentioned..

[Skruface]

Some of the Winnipeg Wolfpack guy use this board, but mostly only for access to the buy & sell. Most use their own forum or the MAA forums. And yeah, it's all the same Wolfpack - Ontario and Manitoba are one and the same.

[Amos]

Originally Posted by Styrak

EDIT: Oh and yeah GIRL PLAYING?! Awesome!

That's nothing new!

My team's got a girl that actively plays! Not some one's girlfriend who's there just to take pictures!

[paranoid987]

Originally Posted by Skruface

And yeah, it's all the same Wolfpack - Ontario and Manitoba are one and the same.

Not True

[ScottMcLeod]

Originally Posted by Ducky

Airsoft in MB has really evolved a lot and is heading in a very good direction. This article is just what we need; along with increased organization, and the real push for our association here to be more official, things will only get better.

We need more of this from other places in Canada.

+1

It'd be nice if Ontario and Canada Central would get some good press about it.

[Endymion]

Unfortunately for Ontario, the vast majority of the population is focused around urban centres and thus so is the media. You'd have to get through to the journalist and the editor and even then, the populace would see and hear only what they want to - i.e. "oh my gawd, people running around with realistic looking guns in the area shooting each other - we need to ban!"

[Rukus]

Would be nice to see something on the west coast like this too. And my wife plays with me and she likes it just as much as I do.

[ScottMcLeod]

Originally Posted by Endymion

Unfortunately for Ontario, the vast majority of the population is focused around urban centres and thus so is the media. You'd have to get through to the journalist and the editor and even then, the populace would see and hear only what they want to - i.e. "oh my gawd, people running around with realistic looking guns in the area shooting each other - we need to ban!"

Yep. It'd be nice if people would accept it like paintball/lasertag, but unfortunately they [don't usually] (edit).

[Zekk05]

Originally Posted by ScottMcLeod

Yep. It'd be nice if people would accept it like paintball/lasertag, but unfortunately they won't.

theres a defeatist attitude.
people will believe what they want to believe, but what they read can influence what they believe. look at this way, right now theyre already thinking "omg, para military freaks training to do evil things", so if you dont do anything, nothing will change.


The girl in the article was the journalist that came to US. not the other way round. she approached us asking to do an article on the sport.


all the same, like Amos said, there are girls in the MAA on teams who actually come out on a regular basis. including one on our team.

[ScottMcLeod]

Originally Posted by Zekk05

theres a defeatist attitude.
people will believe what they want to believe, but what they read can influence what they believe. look at this way, right now theyre already thinking "omg, para military freaks training to do evil things", so if you dont do anything, nothing will change.


The girl in the article was the journalist that came to US. not the other way round. she approached us asking to do an article on the sport.


all the same, like Amos said, there are girls in the MAA on teams who actually come out on a regular basis. including one on our team.

I work with a small independent newspaper. I wasn't trying to be defeatist, I was just reflecting the attitudes of people that went against a few people that tried to open a field somewhere in Toronto a few years ago...

That's impressive though. Did she say what sparked her into the idea of writing the article?