But after years of its existence it has expanded its range of activities and became a full-fledged sports club that offers its members a range of leisure pursuits.\u00a0Now members of Kosa may take part in four disciplines \u2013 Airsoft, diving, shooting at flying targets, as well as sports holidays.\u00a0At the moment the club, which is the champion of Irish Airsoft, has about 100 members and is the largest Russian-language sports association in the country.<\/p>\n
The club has diving instructors who can teach beginners and know many interesting places to dive.\u00a0\u201cWe dive to different depths,\u201d says one of the founders of \u201cKosa\u201d Igor Dolgov, \u201cFor example, recently our guys, who already have experience in diving, dived to a German submarine from the Second World War, sunken off the coast of Galway.\u00a0Our instructors are professionally engaged in diving.\u00a0They have all the necessary equipment and certifications. \u201c<\/p>\n
Classes on shooting at flying targets (plates) are also conducted by an experienced instructor who is also a member of the club Kosa.\u00a0The group meets at the Infantry based in Courtlough, Balbriggan, co Dublin, which is a 15 minute drive from Ashbourne (Co. Meath), where Kosa\u2019s airsoft range is located.<\/p>\n
Kosa\u2019s active tourism started its operations recently, but it is evolving rapidly. Kosa does not forget its origins: airsoft.\u00a0Every Sunday, club members gather at the site near Ashbourne, to compete in this team game for tough guys.\u00a0Many members of Kosa were in the past soldiers and officers of the Russian and Soviet army.\u00a0Therefore, they play very seriously as if it were the real deal in terms of combat engagement.\u00a0For example, Kosa was the first club in Ireland to introduce full radio signaling for all team members.\u00a0To catch the enemy off guard, \u2018Kosars\u2019 can bypass any obstacle.
\nIn 2009 the club took part in the tournament for the Take Aim Cup.\u00a0Defeating all the teams from Ireland and Northern Ireland, who participated in the competition, Kosa took the top prize.\u00a0In subsequent years, the Russian-speaking club successfully held on to the trophy.<\/p>\n
Igor Dolgov said that the club is always happy for new members.\u00a0Now, according to him, Kosa is represented by 15 different nationalities. All these people talk in Russian and were born in Eastern Europe.\u00a0Kosa is not exclusively a men\u2019s club. Indeed, the club has a women\u2019s team, \u201cThe Furies!\u201d.\u00a0Some ladies in the club also like to dive, and whole families go on Kosa tours. Russian club Kosa was founded in 2008 as an airsoft club (a command-military sports game similar to paintball, in which participants use air guns, shooting plastic balls). But after years of its existence it has expanded its range of activities and became a full-fledged sports club that offers its members a range of leisure pursuits.\u00a0Now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1614,"featured_media":31141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9341],"tags":[9868,12634,10720,9381],"class_list":["post-31142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russians-in-ireland","tag-airsoft","tag-klub-kosa","tag-kniga-russkie-v-irlandii","tag-sport"],"yoast_head":"\n
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\nViktor Posudnevsky
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