Top 5 Unbeatable tips to improve your airsoft skills

Whether you are a beginner or far more experienced, every airsoft player can improve their skillset on the battlefield. Remember these vital tips and apply them to your next skirmish and you will see an improvement in your focus, accuracy and general performance next time you're in a cross-fire.

1) Practice makes perfect

You are only as good as the time you put into the game. Regularly attending airsoft games forces you to understand the overall state-of-play, learn better tactics, and get familiar with your favourite fields. When you have the right mindset, know your gun and the fields inside out, you will begin to predict your opponents' next move.

2) Practice Improving your accuracy

The more you play with your chosen gun, the more accurate you will become. However, you should do the following to improve your overall accuracy and rate of fire.

Know your gun - How far will it shoot? Refrain from entering open spaces where the visible distance is further than your gun can reach. If long-range is your playstyle - perhaps with a DMR or sniper rifle - then take this advice and reverse it: get yourself in a position where you have the extra range to hit your opponents, but they cannot hit you back.
Hold your gun correctly - Airsoft isn't the army, far from it, but if you're in a position to learn from a professional shooter, make sure to emulate their shooting stances. Recoil management is irrelevant to airsoft, but modern military doctrines place a good deal of emphasis on personal manoeuvrability. Despite the prevalence of tactical shooter video games (even Fortnite gets it quite right, you kids have no excuses), the 'airsoft stance' remains a common sight: suspending the gun out in front of you, whilst your upper body tilts 45 degrees backwards. This is a horrible, slow and clunky way to aim that is sure to get you out-manoeuvred again and again.

3) Defence Oriented and Offense Oriented. Be more Tactical

Work around your environment and play to the rules. Some game modes may give both teams the same objective, but each must play to it from two differing sides of the same field. Let's talk hypothetically:

The blue team has physical structures that are easy to defend, but to approach the game objective requires leaving this cover and exposing themselves. Can they use this cover at any stage of the game? If the game mode requires the red team to get close to it, then yes. If this cover is too far back and the red team has no reason to attack it, then no - players on the blue team should seek a better position to play around the objective.