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About paintball
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What
is paintball?
In last 15 years, paintball became known as one of the most exciting sports. It's playing in over 40 countries, it plays a milion man and women with all ages and different life styles. Profesor and students, engineers and mechanics…all paintball players posses love toward adventure and have a strong nature for competition.
The final cause in paintball can be different. The motive of each "scenario" is to eliminate the enemy by hit him with small ball fill with paint which splits. Also, the second motive could be capture the enemy flag…
Paintball is combination of children game "tag" and "hide and seek" but more sophisticated. Also, there is a lot of different "styles" of game. Usually, the group will split in two team and play game "capture the flag". The numbers of players in every team can be from one or two, five or ten to over 100 or even 1000 depend on size of field for game…
Like in other sports, there is always a potential risk of injury. What ever, safety rules and proper use of factory develop safety equipment are made paintball one of the safer sports. The statistic are showed that more people get injured by playing with bowling and fishing (what about other sports) than playing paintball. When the player is on the field "ALWAYS" must to wear protective glasses which are usually part of special mask who protect eyes and face. You must to wear glasses the whole time while you're playing paintball and while you are in the area where the shoting is allowed. When the gun is out of field the barrel plug must be put in the barrel of marker to prevent accidental discharge a ball.
Does
paintball hit hurt?
The ball fill with paint splits when kick something and mostly caused very small pain. Getting kick is part of the game. Fortunately, is not so terrible like someone think…
What
need to bring?
Food, a lot of water, old, dark clothes and boots and, unfortunately, money for renting equipment and for the paintballs. Paintball centre have clothes for game (for rental) so you wouldn't dirty yours.
Can
you wash paint from the clothes?
The paint which is in the balls you can easy wash with water and cleaning powder.
Kind
of "scenario"?
In paintball ther is a lot of so called scenario for the players (depend about agreement and about field). The most popular is "Capture the flag". The team of players must get to the enemy flag which is on the enemy field, take it and bring it in their base. That target have the enemy team players, too. Very popular scenario is the "President". One player is without the marker and "act" president. Players form his team must to bring him to the set point… Further, interesting scenario is "Capture the fortress". One team defend fortress until the enemy team is trying to capture it.
A lot of players like to play a game named speedball. Speedball plays on a small field when the enemy is not hiding in the wood than by combination strategy, skill and precision try to throw out the enemy from the game. Players are split in two teams with the same number of players. The game is over when one of teams stay without players. That team is lose that game… .
It
is worth to try?
SURE! Playing paintball is adventure you will never forget !!!
