2004 World Steel Challenge Champion, Mach Sakai, practices at lot with airsoft guns when he is back in Japan. He sent in word about two videos the first one which we have wrote about before, the Unlimited Cup 2013 held in the early part of June and the APS Cup which was held two weeks after. You can follow Mach Sakai at his YouTube Channel or check his page at Military Blog Japan.

This video might just test the patience of many a player, but for Mach Sakai, it's just a day in maintaining his shootng skills, whether in airsoft or real steel. In this video he draws and shoots in 1 second for a hundred times and hitting the target. If you think this is not worth it, just remember that Mach Sakai is the first Japanese to win the Word Steel Challenge in 2004. That's a real steel competition and he trains with airsoft when real steel shooting is not available.

Time for the weekend update from Airsoft Extreme. Speaking of time, how time flies that graduation exercises are around the corner again! Thus, Airsoft Extreme will be having a Dads & Grads Sale with details to follow. For the gunslinghers they have the Cetacea Slings and Lanyards now in stock, and for the Action Air Shooters AIP speed mag holsters and 1911/glock holsters. As always, a reminder from them to subscribe to their YouTube Channel.

As we have reported before, during the Airsoft Arms Fair 7, Jim Septhon mentioned to me of their plan to hold the European Championships. Not much details yet during that day, but earlier today, he sent us the banner and information about the event and Clarence Lai/Airsoft Surgeon and RedWolf Airsoft will be sponsoring this event.

Now, that's a good way of starting `em young. The Thailand Airsoft Shooting Association (THASA) just had their THASA Junior 2013 with the local young shooters joining the kids of expats at the THASA Shooting range. Some of the kids can already draw and shoot fast, faster than most of us here at Popular Airsoft. And if that's the way they can move, shoot, and change magazines, the future is bright for airsoft practical shooting.

Shooter! Are you ready? If you are then why not try and join in the eHobby Cup Practical Shooting Match 2013 which is organised by eHobby Asia and will be held on the 23rd and 24th of March 2013 with the 23rd being the pre-match game? The venue will be at the Boot Camo in Hong Kong. So better polish up your airsoft practical shooting skills and prepare to join in this which is organised with HK Shooters.

It's time to post some Action Air (Airsoft IPSC) footage as we found two from the Philippines at Vimeo.com coming from the same video author. We want to promote airsoft practical shooting or action air, or AIPCS, whatever you want to call it, but we found faults in these videos which we recommend that other should avoid when putting up such videos to help this discipline:

For those who have been wondering about Stryke Airsoft, they just sent in an update that their website is now back online after some technical issues with it. They can now take in online orders and they also announce a series of custom IPSC Airsoft Race Guns that you can use if you're into airsoft practical shooting or action air if you want to go by the classification by IPSC.

Another Make Ready Video now available from Panteao Productions... "Here multi-World and National Champion shooter Robert Vogel shows you how to best approach and shoot a stage, or course of fire, in Practical shooting competition. Robert reviews the gear he uses in USPSA and IDPA as well as the targets for both sports and their respective scoring methods.

Yosser's Airsoft Odyssey posts the latest video taken during the Airsoft Arms Fair 4. As reported before, the organisers have put up an Action Air shooting course during the fair. The Grange have bigger plans for Action Air come next year, and this video shows that Action Air or Airsoft IPSC is now starting to take root and get more attention in the UK.