Manager James Sheppard Assistant Dave Walton

Laser Tag at Leisure Lakes

The end of season day out for the Under 11's saw us head over to Lesuire Lakes near Southport for 2 hours of Laser Tag.

Laser tag is simply paintball without the pain and is suitable for all ages (even dads, see the faces on the back row!!).

We arrived just before 11 and after getting into our uniform and listeneing to the do and dont's we headed into the woods with our marshalls for 2 hours of fun.

The Marshalls split us into 2 groups, red and yellow.

The first game saw the yellows defending a hill whilst the reds had to attack and capture the hill. The woods added to the game because once you were hiding in the grass it was very difficult to be seen. All guns had a name and once you were hit the gun told you who had hit you. Gizmo and Bugsy seemed to make a bee line for me. Roles were reversed in the next game. This gave us good practise time for what was ahead.

Yellows defended the hill and in the next managed to capture it.

For the next game we entered the heavy woodland area covered with huts, bunkers, tanks, jeeps and metal fencing. Yellows had to defend a bunker whilst reds attacked from all sides. For this game 4 yellows had to remain in the bunker whilst the rest were outside defending. If you got hit you had to run back to the bunker and someone else took your place. This was mayhem as reds soon attacked from all sides and took control of the bunker.

For the next game yellows had to take a flag and get it to a hut in the wood that was defended by reds. Who ever carried the flag had to drop it once they were hit, then someone else carried it until they were hit. Yellows failed to get the flag to the hut with reds taking every one of us out of the game.

Now it was the turn of the reds to defend the bunker while yellows attacked. Yellows capturing the bunker in quick time.

For the last game the reds had to get the flag to the hut. Where as the yellows tried this patiently 5 or 6 reds just ran for it taking turns to carry the flag after getting hit. This game was over in about 10 minutes.

Overall, this was great fun, each game lasting approx 20 minutes and you can see by the photo's that not just the lads were going to enjoy themselves.