Airsoft Guns: Much More than Leisure
“The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times… The best moments usually occur if a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.”
“The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times… The best moments usually occur if a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.” (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, 1990).
It is of great importance that the military and law enforcement personnel, who serve for public interest and the security of the country, are ready both physically and mentally for possible situations that may be encountered in real life. Optimal mental state for performance, regarded by many sports psychologists as “mental toughness” or “mental readiness”, has been based on not only the real-life scenarios in training and drills also the more of the practice.[1]
In training, the application of difficult situations that may be encountered in real life with realistic scenarios can reinforce learning, while minimizing the risks of incidents and injuries that may arise in breaking safety.
When all these are under consideration, airsoft handguns are drawn attention with the features seen below:
1. Providing Safe and Space-Free Training Environment
In acquisition of manipulation of handguns and practicing general safety rules which is a “sine qua non” for law enforcement training; airsoft handguns are conducive to develop many critical skills step by step with trigger and muzzle discipline, basic shooting techniques and dynamic shooting practices since its impact effect is much less than the real handgun, it minimizes the adverse cases that may arise and provides a real simulation opportunity due to its structure.
Moreover, airsoft handguns have advantages not only for acquisition of these skills to the users but also for being able to be used indoor facilities different from the range requirement for trainings. Especially for the novice personnel, the airsoft handguns provide an integrated learning environment in training like close-quarter-battle, close combat and VIP protection by maintaining the security at highest level.
2. Achieving Sporting Advantage
Consciousness is associated with assimilation of information encountered in everyday life, determination of actions and development of behavior appropriate to the situation. The subconscious, on the other hand, includes actions that people develop instantaneously beyond their control. No matter how it seems that the conscious overweighs the subconscious, the feeling of survival, the behavior for recognizing and responding threats-risks are driven by subconscious. At this point, a hormone called dopamine is of crucial importance we think in everyday life. In fact, for critical occasions the instincts are main motives to determine whether a person can survive or not because dopamine stimulates the brain to predict what it is like to do next and what would be the safest course of action. Therefore, the more airsoft handguns the trainings are conducted with (assuming conducting more training), the more likely the person could predict what is next and counterattack by “controlling dopamine” to develop an insight thereby improving the reflexes for sports like aiming accurately, waiting for the right moment to fire a gun.[2]
3. Achieving Cost-Efficiency
Being biodegradable and environmentally friendly ammunition structure, airsoft handguns have economic advantage with respect to standard ammunition thereby offering to training practice much often for trainees. This means that the number of practices required in training is much higher than the number of practices performed with real ammunition, thus fulfilling the need to practice more.
4. Offering Realistic Training Environment
As Kenneth R. Murray stated: “the more relevant the experience will be when then mind begins searching for similar experiences during its decision-making phase of problem solving”.
Research conducted by Murray shows that “law enforcement personnel that have been involved in deadly force encounters after being trained through reality-based training suggested that officers are more likely to win the encounter”. Law enforcement personnel are also less likely to report “intrusive thoughts, indecision, and an inability to think their way through the situation, memory distortion. Therefore, reality-based trainings will allow the individual to focus more clearly and articulate self-confidence and assuredness in his/her actions.[3]
Through the utilization and incorporation of reality-based training, law enforcement should be provided survival tools that will allow them to essentially prove successful at many deadly force conflicts that they may encounter.
Under consideration of the critical cases that law enforcement personnel have faced with, air soft handguns are indispensable integrated training solution for their physical and mental development by enhancing their chance to practice more.
Complying with all these, the CANiK TP9 Elite Combat replica, which was produced faithful to the real weapon, was developed in cooperation with Cybergun as a result of two years of research and development. The CANiK TP9 Elite Combat replica offers solutions to both individual users' sports shooting development and the training needs of military & law enforcement officers in this field.
REFERENCES
[1] Mînjină, B. (2014). Survival Stress Management Through Mental Skills Training in Law Enforcement. European Police Science and Research Bulletin, (11). Retrieved June 8, 2022.
[2] Coker C., (2013). Warrior Geeks: How 21st Century Technology is Changing the Way We Fight and Think About War (pp. 224–225).
[3] Fitchett, E. (2016). Reality Based Training and Its Importance to Law Enforcement. Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas.
It is of great importance that the military and law enforcement personnel, who serve for public interest and the security of the country, are ready both physically and mentally for possible situations that may be encountered in real life. Optimal mental state for performance, regarded by many sports psychologists as “mental toughness” or “mental readiness”, has been based on not only the real-life scenarios in training and drills also the more of the practice.[1]
In training, the application of difficult situations that may be encountered in real life with realistic scenarios can reinforce learning, while minimizing the risks of incidents and injuries that may arise in breaking safety.
When all these are under consideration, airsoft handguns are drawn attention with the features seen below:
1. Providing Safe and Space-Free Training Environment
In acquisition of manipulation of handguns and practicing general safety rules which is a “sine qua non” for law enforcement training; airsoft handguns are conducive to develop many critical skills step by step with trigger and muzzle discipline, basic shooting techniques and dynamic shooting practices since its impact effect is much less than the real handgun, it minimizes the adverse cases that may arise and provides a real simulation opportunity due to its structure.
Moreover, airsoft handguns have advantages not only for acquisition of these skills to the users but also for being able to be used indoor facilities different from the range requirement for trainings. Especially for the novice personnel, the airsoft handguns provide an integrated learning environment in training like close-quarter-battle, close combat and VIP protection by maintaining the security at highest level.
2. Achieving Sporting Advantage
Consciousness is associated with assimilation of information encountered in everyday life, determination of actions and development of behavior appropriate to the situation. The subconscious, on the other hand, includes actions that people develop instantaneously beyond their control. No matter how it seems that the conscious overweighs the subconscious, the feeling of survival, the behavior for recognizing and responding threats-risks are driven by subconscious. At this point, a hormone called dopamine is of crucial importance we think in everyday life. In fact, for critical occasions the instincts are main motives to determine whether a person can survive or not because dopamine stimulates the brain to predict what it is like to do next and what would be the safest course of action. Therefore, the more airsoft handguns the trainings are conducted with (assuming conducting more training), the more likely the person could predict what is next and counterattack by “controlling dopamine” to develop an insight thereby improving the reflexes for sports like aiming accurately, waiting for the right moment to fire a gun.[2]
3. Achieving Cost-Efficiency
Being biodegradable and environmentally friendly ammunition structure, airsoft handguns have economic advantage with respect to standard ammunition thereby offering to training practice much often for trainees. This means that the number of practices required in training is much higher than the number of practices performed with real ammunition, thus fulfilling the need to practice more.
4. Offering Realistic Training Environment
As Kenneth R. Murray stated: “the more relevant the experience will be when then mind begins searching for similar experiences during its decision-making phase of problem solving”.
Research conducted by Murray shows that “law enforcement personnel that have been involved in deadly force encounters after being trained through reality-based training suggested that officers are more likely to win the encounter”. Law enforcement personnel are also less likely to report “intrusive thoughts, indecision, and an inability to think their way through the situation, memory distortion. Therefore, reality-based trainings will allow the individual to focus more clearly and articulate self-confidence and assuredness in his/her actions.[3]
Through the utilization and incorporation of reality-based training, law enforcement should be provided survival tools that will allow them to essentially prove successful at many deadly force conflicts that they may encounter.
Under consideration of the critical cases that law enforcement personnel have faced with, air soft handguns are indispensable integrated training solution for their physical and mental development by enhancing their chance to practice more.
Complying with all these, the CANiK TP9 Elite Combat replica, which was produced faithful to the real weapon, was developed in cooperation with Cybergun as a result of two years of research and development. The CANiK TP9 Elite Combat replica offers solutions to both individual users' sports shooting development and the training needs of military & law enforcement officers in this field.
REFERENCES
[1] Mînjină, B. (2014). Survival Stress Management Through Mental Skills Training in Law Enforcement. European Police Science and Research Bulletin, (11). Retrieved June 8, 2022.
[2] Coker C., (2013). Warrior Geeks: How 21st Century Technology is Changing the Way We Fight and Think About War (pp. 224–225).
[3] Fitchett, E. (2016). Reality Based Training and Its Importance to Law Enforcement. Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas.
