Paintball War-Personal Narrative

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Paintball War The very first time I ever played paintball was the most awesome/terrifying day of my life. I can still vividly remember the whole experience to this day, I was around 14 years old super short as I hadn’t hit my growth spurt yet and was super excited to go paintballing with friends. It was overcast when we pulled up to K.C Crusaders and paid for our equipment and checked out the section of forest where we would be playing, it was awesome there was a small river, little wooden boards for cover, and even some old cars that were just tossed in there. I could hardly contain my excitement the whole 30 minutes that we waited for the game to start, finally one of the referees came and told us that it was time to start and briefed us on the rules of paintball capture the flag. When we entered the arena ( not …show more content…

For the first few moments it was silent, then people started spraying paintballs into the forest, I was forced to run behind a tree so to avoid getting lit up like a fish in a barrel. The moment i ducked behind the tree it was hit at least 15 times and by that point I was freaking out, there was literally nowhere to go and I hadn't expected it to be so ruthless, so as I sat there sweating bullets and listening to the paintballs slamming into the tree with loud cracks I started feeling that survival instinct that people get when in a fight or flight situation. I decided to go with the smarter option, I dove behind the nearest board then peeked up and started spraying paintballs into the forest. Anything that moved I shot at furiously, and for a while whoever had been shooting at me backed off a bit in surprise for a bit, but had no other choice but to keep on shooting back. We kept on going back and forth this way for about fifteen minutes when whoever it was stopped shooting and I knew that they were changing positions and that it was probably only one other person that I was up against, I checked my hopper and found that it was a

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