SandDragon, off to California 2012

Well Its that time of Year again....Its so Hot or too rainy to play so I will leave you all to yer doom!,,LOL!

Oh yeah, Its Freaking cold in places like San Francisco!....It can actually get in the 50s out here so I gotta pack a jacket!

Time to Cool off and Visit Family and friends in California!

Next Stop, Sacramento, Stockton and my favorite city by the bay!

I will be Posting, as well as Representing AIRSOFT RESERVE and will try to make an effort posting pictures and shoot up some more friends and make connections!



DING DING!.....Time to catch me a cable car up the hill to China town!

Friday 3rd was uneventful flying... the Grand canyon is still beautiful to fly...but even more cool at ground level!...The Photos I took while on the flight were so interesting...it almost warrants another thread , just to post them!

Im just gonna post some cool photos!
After landing, I pretty much am staying with my Father and all my brothers eating like a king and staying up all night playing Black ops on PS3 fighting more Zombies... My staying up late in Miami did not effect my sleeping habit as Miami is 3 hours ahead of California so what would normaly dictate waking up at 12 pm...I was awake at 7 am California time!

After Eating more Sushi at the Banquet house we made a trip on Saturday to Olde Sacramento and hit up the shops, even hung out with cowboys!

















Father and Son



















SandDragon Visits CQB city 2012










Running around like a Tourist, I made a brief pass by CQB city this Sunday.

Looks like everything here uas usual and the event guys hold well organized game events...unfortunately I couldn't stick around for a single game as My brother were on an origional mission for Stockton Con Comic book and anime manga festival.




The old flyers of our AIRSOFTRESERVE FORUM still remain in place on the school bus bumper!...I had a few recruits even write it down so the could log in and see what the forum has to offer...Photos will be posted ASAP!











At the Festival hosted at U.O.P. campus the place was a buzz with cosplayers dressed up as their favorite characters, Funny that I fumbled this one as I actually left my pirate outfit at the room and was still mistaken for a cos player in my vintage steam punk clothing!




















SandDragon Reporting from the Corrupt and Broke ass city of Stockton.....- I am not a crook!

Seems you have a lot to do for fun though,btw hope to see more members on the forum to trade tricks and tips.

Rillickual wrote:

Seems you have a lot to do for fun though,btw hope to see more members on the forum to trade tricks and tips.

what? nooo i like being the only one from cali!

Pandemonium wrote:

Rillickual wrote:

Seems you have a lot to do for fun though,btw hope to see more members on the forum to trade tricks and tips.

what? nooo i like being the only one from cali!

It's ok,if anyone does come on here then you would be the first while maybe showing them the way...or can make your own ideas.

Rillickual wrote:

Pandemonium wrote:

Rillickual wrote:

Seems you have a lot to do for fun though,btw hope to see more members on the forum to trade tricks and tips.

what? nooo i like being the only one from cali!

It's ok,if anyone does come on here then you would be the first while maybe showing them the way...or can make your own ideas.

i dont think anyone from cali will post as much as me

Pandemonium wrote:

Rillickual wrote:

Pandemonium wrote:

Rillickual wrote:

Seems you have a lot to do for fun though,btw hope to see more members on the forum to trade tricks and tips.

what? nooo i like being the only one from cali!

It's ok,if anyone does come on here then you would be the first while maybe showing them the way...or can make your own ideas.

i dont think anyone from cali will post as much as me

No , We need more SandDragon's and Pandeemonium's!


RECRUIT MORE FORUM AIRSOFTER JUNKIES!

Pandemonium wrote:

SandDragon wrote:

Pandemonium wrote:

Rillickual wrote:

Pandemonium wrote:

Rillickual wrote:

Seems you have a lot to do for fun though,btw hope to see more members on the forum to trade tricks and tips.

what? nooo i like being the only one from cali!

It's ok,if anyone does come on here then you would be the first while maybe showing them the way...or can make your own ideas.

i dont think anyone from cali will post as much as me

No , We need more SandDragon's and Pandeemonium's!


RECRUIT MORE FORUM AIRSOFTER JUNKIES!

but im a forum whore i post on like 10 different forums if this forums bout anime fool id break my 8400 posts on anime hq!

post a link on that anime forum, I might wanna drop on in and see anime discussion.

This weekend , I am hitting the road to go check out San Francisco...Funny that just seconds ago, that Franco kid "Eagle" did some wierd 2 way phone call just to ease drop and later insult me while talking to another person....I do not know why this guy keeps on calling....trolling for no apparent reason.

I am here to have fun....whether I am on the Forum, airsoft field or in my current position which is in California on Vacation.....

Tomorrow i will be hitting the City by the bay.

Its very Hot is Stockton... It was something like 102 degrees here!

But We all escaped to San Francsico and the place is just freakin windy and cold!





These are from my PSP camera, though I will later upload from the other cameras!




We spent most of the day walking off the Embaradero shopping in Fishermans wharf and I even built a small sandcastle again at the nearby beach next to the cable car turntable.




I wish I could spend more of a full day, but my dad was adament about returning home before night fall as we could not secure a hotel to do even more!

The place is packed and its virtually human gridlock in all these Tourist hot spots... Even great just people watching and seeing performing artists.

-You Know I left my heart in San Francisco!

SandDragon Reporting from CQB city California Sunday August 21 ,2012



Since its another hot lazy day in Stockton, why not go down the road and see what CQB city has to offer?

It was too late really for me and my family to reasonablly pay 30 bucks each to play the last hosted games of the day so me and my Brother Anthony just ran around as dedicated camera men.

The uniformed assembly of players stood to attenton upon roll call...The Referees anounsed to all our presents and said who we were and what we were doing....some players did not understand that I was actualy using a PSP camera and were rather confused about that device!

While my brother took still shots, I ran around and took video, it will take a bit of time to edit before I post it but some scence were interesting while other scence were just too dark to film- my camera being unable to properly film darkly lit areas.



I was present to see a form of Down pilot and CTF games... Anthony was allowed up on the referee viewing platform to capture overhead shots....



after all the filming the players all gathered for a drawing of raffled prizes, one kid was lucky and won a nice shot gun!

The event was very social with many players asking about where the pictures will be posted and how to get to this forum...I hope that California airsoft action will soon jump in and add to the fun by adding their point of views to this very forum-

WELCOME to AIRSOFT RESERVE.NET

Here are your airsoft battle camera pictures...if you attended , do post your game debriefs on how well the day went.

SANDDRAGON reporting from the corrupt and broke ass city of STOCKTON!





Players assembled nice and orderly- all are silent and listening to the game scenario rules.



There are no Bang outs here!... I highly recommend full face protection here!

















some overhead photos of the CQB facility in Stockton California














360 degree photo pan of the facilitie









Nice Gun!






SandDragon will be out here until September hoping to capture some real serious airsoft action!

Just assembled a rather interesting perspective video followed by some fun I had on the beach.

SandDragon wrote:

Just assembled a rather interesting perspective video followed by some fun I had on the beach.

why would you go oakland? and your stayin near stockton?! dam ur just askin to be shot lol

Browsing through a Sports authority in Stockton California...Looking at possible airsoft guns.

Aparentlly all airsoft weapons there were made with translustant plastic see through parts and nothing in metal and a bright orange tip!

Looks like only hard core airsoft gear must be found at the hard core hobby shops.
Aparentlly California has issued some hard core restrictions to full metal airsoft gear, or most of these shops are opting to not carry the full metal quality stuff.

Of course I tend to shop on E-bay but it is nice to hold the item and see it first hand.

SandDragon wrote:

Browsing through a Sports authority in Stockton California...Looking at possible airsoft guns.

Aparentlly all airsoft weapons there were made with translustant plastic see through parts and nothing in metal and a bright orange tip!

Looks like only hard core airsoft gear must be found at the hard core hobby shops.
Aparentlly California has issued some hard core restrictions to full metal airsoft gear, or most of these shops are opting to not carry the full metal quality stuff.

Of course I tend to shop on E-bay but it is nice to hold the item and see it first hand.

Where have u been Drago?... The same thing happens here in Miami, Sports Authority for Airsoft guns WTF were u thinking?................

Let me help u out.... Try driving to Airsoft GI or Evike's warehouses I'm sure you won't be disappointed!

Ebola wrote:

SandDragon wrote:

Browsing through a Sports authority in Stockton California...Looking at possible airsoft guns.

Aparentlly all airsoft weapons there were made with translustant plastic see through parts and nothing in metal and a bright orange tip!

Looks like only hard core airsoft gear must be found at the hard core hobby shops.
Aparentlly California has issued some hard core restrictions to full metal airsoft gear, or most of these shops are opting to not carry the full metal quality stuff.

Of course I tend to shop on E-bay but it is nice to hold the item and see it first hand.

Where have u been Drago?... The same thing happens here in Miami, Sports Authority for Airsoft guns WTF were u thinking?................

Let me help u out.... Try driving to Airsoft GI or Evike's warehouses I'm sure you won't be disappointed!

been there, dont do that lol sanddragon if you need stuff lemme know ill hook you up

Ebola wrote:

SandDragon wrote:

Browsing through a Sports authority in Stockton California...Looking at possible airsoft guns.

Aparentlly all airsoft weapons there were made with translustant plastic see through parts and nothing in metal and a bright orange tip!

Looks like only hard core airsoft gear must be found at the hard core hobby shops.
Aparentlly California has issued some hard core restrictions to full metal airsoft gear, or most of these shops are opting to not carry the full metal quality stuff.

Of course I tend to shop on E-bay but it is nice to hold the item and see it first hand.

Where have u been Drago?... The same thing happens here in Miami, Sports Authority for Airsoft guns WTF were u thinking?................

Let me help u out.... Try driving to Airsoft GI or Evike's warehouses I'm sure you won't be disappointed!

Maybe so, but I distinklly remember going last time to sports authority off the florida turnpike and kenndal drive last time and seeing the Tommy "typewriter" machine gun as well as some other all metal airsoft toyz.

Big 5 in Stockton had some full metal airsoft toys on my last visit last year of 2011 but I may be seeing a political movement taking effect that may actually end the availability of more realistic airsoft gear as of the quality that we are seeking.

If this is so, you all might as well start collecting and saving all yer old airsoft guns so that long after their internals have failed, you could always keep them going.....Maybe they will even be highly apriecated pieces from a bygone era if the full plastic trend has taken over and all this stuff is banned!

Saturday August 25, 2012

J- POP FESTIVAL in San Francisco:

Affectionatelly known as Sokyo- (SanFrancsico- Tokyo)




Today It was just me and all my Brothers who loaded up in a car and left Stockon for San Francisco to an area known as Japan town for the Anual J-POP festival.

This festival is alot like Miamis Lincoln road mall fairs except it was jammed packed with Cosplayers as well as all sorts of events and cool things to buy sell and trade.

Mostly geared to Anime...The J-pop festival was a blast!...Only thing though was the low tempature of 54 degrees outside and nice and toasty inside the mall....A nice cold summer day in SF!.....I had to bring a coat!

I actually started out shopping in steam punk era clothing and later on at the end of the day I looked like a Japanese samura in a Kimono!... I never thought people would be pulling me over for a picture!

I fulfilled all my little agendas in treasure hunting and gift finding as well as raced around here and there in the hope that no stone was left unexplored and no event was missed!

This years theme was based on Neo -Envangaleon style and series.

When we got home we had secured a few DVDs and so had a movie marathon of series 1.11 and 2.22, You will (not) advance!

Best places to hang out were just about everywhere!...every store featured high Quality service and merchandise... The Japanese book store is a real upbeat treat, Interesting cafes are all in the right spots, if you are ever in SF, make this spot a must do on your list!

I am posting pictures but will be unable to rotate some as this computer is stuborn!



















this character is popular!



Nearby the Anime and Manga Japanese book store:
OTAKU!






Purify your soul in the Japanese tea cerimony



Not exactly for Haloween, some of these costumes were actually very expesive or all hand made....My point, live in the moment and do not waste your youth!







Sayonara!

August 29th, 2012





Today I visited Old sacramento again as well as the California State Capital building and even visited the nearby mall., Good thing I brought my huge Japanese Unbrella... its sunny and hot!

Me and My cousin Westley Foo parked at Old Sacramento and basically Walked all over the place.
Visited the California railroad Museum and checked out many shops.



We didn't make it in time for any art Museums or gallerys....
The God Damned Homeless are everywhere too!
We got hit by some nut job who ran his bicycle into us while crossing the street and was tail gaiting pedestrians!
No one hurt but some other bums just would,nt shut up with the foul language and cursing in Olde Sacramento... I wish a Cop would show up and haul them off, looks like they wanna kill the mood.

Meanwhile, Olde Sacramento is getting ready for "GOLD RUSH DAYS" Weekend Festival, which will be starting next Friday, Saturday and Sunday, but I will not be able to attend as I will be Flying back home....still the Festival will celebrate the historic recreation of the wild west era...Cowboys Wanted!


Inside the Capital dome:



I am beginning to have issues about how I'm going to bring home all these cool souveniers back home and in a way Im feeling so comfortable here staying with my Dad and brothers, I feel a bit saddened that I will soon be returning back to Miami.

Mean while I hear, Miami got hit by another Tropical Hurricane and one of my Wooden sculptured Dutch garden Windmills got wrecked as they were never designed to spin quite that fast!

I have a few more art projects I actually started here and I also mean to finish them as agendas...This Saturday , I am hoping to plant another Epic SandCastle at the Santa Cruz Beach Board walk as well as strike San Francsico one last time.


A very nice Clock tower Church...and it does Chime nicely!
It reminds me of one of my Sandcastles that I often build.