reminded that nothing makes you run faster than an "enemy" with an air rifle with crafts-clay "bullet". Leaves nice haematoma even through wool pants :)

I'm all for the progress, yet i think abolishing BB guns/air-rifle battles isn't the one. Making sure that everybody wears safety glasses would be the one (we didn't have the ones, and that i think was unnecessary risk) Lead of course has to go.

Another - i see in the park children playing battles with "swords" which can't deliver any pain - foam wrapped by duct tape. We had "swords" we carved out of wood. They could deliver some pain, and that made the fight more lively i'd say :)