The Ground Zero Week­ender is the biggest yearly event on the UK Air­soft calendar.

Spread over three days in the New Forest near Bournemouth, over 1000 play­ers attend. Air­soft is sim­ilar to paint­ball, but with a lean towards real­ism and mil­it­ary sim­u­la­tion. GZ is known for a good game and large battles, but essen­tially the week­end is a social event with camp­ing and wild parties around the BBQ.

Trip moves into attack and Usif sports a kick ass hair cut

Here my team, Delta-Alpha; 26 strong, join in the fun and lark about until the game starts. We are more of a strict milsim team these days and GZ is used to build a team spirit rather than fight too hard. Still, you can see in the video that I had a gun cam and man­aged some great foot­age of people get­ting “laced”.

Among this year’s spe­cial sur­prises arranged by the DA’s, was a fly-over by the father of one of our play­ers in a Chinese stunt plane while drop­ping leaf­lets. Unfor­tu­nately, hit­ting a 1000 people all wear­ing cammo was a chal­lenge and most went wide into a nearby field. Roll on next year, where we will try again, or per­haps go even further!

Here is the film in HD:

Ground Zero Week­ender 2009: Band of Delta-Alpha from Basho Mat­suo on Vimeo.

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