paintballing
Paintballing is a fairly new sport that takes a combination of good equipment, athleticism, and skill. This sport was invented when “ A friend of ours found this gun in a agricultural catolouge that was used by cattlemen to mark cows. It wasn’t long afterwords that we bought two of these things and had ourselves a little duel. After it was over we knew that we had stumbled apon something great” –Hayes Noel. Paintballing is a fairly easy concept to explain, One team essentially hunt the other team. Players are armed with paint filled marble sized balls that when shot, travel at about 60 mph.
There are many different forms of this game that can be played. There is the most popular game which is single elimination, or if you are hit once (and the paintball breaks), then you must remove yourself from the game. Another game is capture the flag, two armed teams both have flags at an assigned station. You have to capture the other teams flag and bring it to your teams station without getting eliminated. The last game that i will tell you about was also the first game. Two armed players stand back to back, with only one shot, a third person tells the two players to take ten paces and after the players have gone the required distance, they turn and shoot. If one person hits the other, they win.
The euqipment of paintballing is very advanced, in the begining, no saftey gear was required. Now, it is mandatory. Each player MUST wear a mask. The average player will be armed with a gun, a co2 or nitrogen tank, and about 200-400 stored paintballs that are kept in pods. A mid quality semi automatic gun can be purchased for about $100. But prices can range up to $1000.
The question that most people ask when purchasing a gun ask “What kind of gun do I want? Well, it depends what you want. If you are a new paintballer and want a gun to play around with, then you might look into buying a Wal-Mart pump action gun. If you want a quality gun that will perform in a game, then you want a semi- automatic gun that costs from 100-200 dollars.
It should be noted that there are many different ways that are employed to get a marker to shoot a paintball out of the marker. Nearly every brand of marker has a different firing system. All have several things in common. They all have some sort of tank with compressed air or C02 or Nitrogen. Then they usually have sort of bolt and hammer system which is cocked back and held in place by a sear which compresses a spring. When the trigger is pulled it releases the sear. The restoring force of the spring pushes the bolt and the hammer forward starting the paintball moving then the C02 is released propelling the ball outward.
Richard Connell, the author, does an incredible job of portraying the insane, however experienced hunter, General Zaroff as a man who hunts man for fun. The portrayal of a sophisticated, educated, cultured man with psychopathic tendencies was evident in many different instances. Interesting enough, I discovered that paintballing was actually inspired in part by the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Dangerous_Game), which leaves us to think “Man is the cruelest animal.” (Friedrich Nietzsche).
Paintball is quite a new sport and is becoming more and more popular. It has been around since 1982, but professional paintball teams have just recently come together in 2002. The rules of paintball are not very complicated and are very concise. The game is very entertaining to play. There are also plenty of different types of products used to play the game. It is the one of the only sports that I am interested in and I hope that someday it could become a more popular sport.
Singles is where one shooter will shoot one target at a time on the 16 yard square. As shotgun shells come in boxes of 25, the shooter will shoot 5 shots at each post and move one post to the right. There can be up to five shooters on the line at one time, and any number less can be spread across the 16 yard posts at their will. If there is more than one person on the line, the shooter who starts on the farthest post to the left will be the first shooter. They will shoot one at one target, then the next shooter to the right will shoot, and so on until all shooters have shot, at which the first shooter shoots again, and the cycle repeats until all shooters have shot 5 targets, then they move one post to the right. Wireless voice poles are kept in front of the shooter, so when they are ready for a target they simply call out; “Pull”, and a target is thrown. Posture is very important when shooting. Feet are to be placed a shoulders width apart, with feet almost perpendicular to the top of the square. Assuming the shooter is right handed, the right elbow is kept straight out, even with the shoulder, right hand holding the trigger guard and butt of the gun and left hand holding the stock. Both eyes must be open while shooting for the best accuracy. More weight is placed on the front foot with the knee slightly bent to help with recoil. All this must be remember while up on the line, but for experiences shooters it’s second
Roping is a sport that most believe simply to be timing and performance of the cowboy and the cattle. However, roping is actually much, much, more. One quality that is necessary for a roper to be successful is momentum. Momentum is the quantity of motion of a moving body, measured of a product of its mass and its velocity (Jones). This concept of momentum can determine what results are obtained by the roper. For example, when a cowboy rides a horse and the horse accelerates, the mass of cowboy and horse together gain momentum. In contrast to that the cattle that leave the shoot and accelerate to escape the rope also gains momentum. The amounts of momentum determine how far each can run in the arena before the rope makes contact with the animal. Another concept that relies on momentum is the rope itself. The cowboy is required to swing the rope with enough momentum to make the loop stand out a sufficient amount so that it is extended and open enough to secure around the animals head or heels.
This report is going to be on the game Ice hockey. A game of hockey is divided into three twenty minute time periods that are called periods. Between each period there is a fifth teen minute intermission. In hockey there are several ways a game may end if there is a tie at the end of regulation. The pros use one twenty sudden death period in which the first to score is the winner. In the amateurs they use a shoot out in which five players from each team are selected and allowed to go one on one with the opposing goalie and which ever team scores the most goals after all five members for both teams have taken their shot they are the winners. If there is a tie after this it keeps repeating until a winner is crowned.
Most states require you to take a firearm safety class in order to complete your gun license and show that you are worthy of owning and operating a gun. Then you can then purchase a gun and register it with the state, in order to prevent the illegal sale of your gun (smartgunlaws.org). For gun control activists that claim guns are not beneficial to the safety of the American people, I present you with a quote from President Obama saying “I believe in the Second Amendment” (CNBC, Rosenfeld). The president makes the decisions about what is best for the people of his country. Although simple, the words of President Obama can tell us a lot.
Slamball is a high flying and high intensity game, which comprises elements of basketball and football. The athletic concepts are the same but applied to Slamball in a different manner. There are four players for each team on the court at all times, four separate trampolines on each side of the court, a fenced in court, and plenty of head gear and padding to go around. Slamball is meant to catch the viewer’s eye and give them an unmatched adrenaline rush.
Roller Ball Murder is an extremely deadly game. The objective of the game is for the runners to get past the skaters on the opposing team, field a ball, and pass it to a biker for a point. Each team consist of twenty players. Each team has ten roller skaters, five motorbike riders, and five runners. The game is played on a hardwood oval track that is fifty yards long and thirty yards across the ends. The oval has high banks and at the top of the walls are cannons. The cannons shoot twenty-pound balls out at over three hundred miles
Flag football is not only a great sport, but it is also getting exercise in without one knowing it. Flag football requires moving around all the time. It keeps cardio up and keeps one on the move. Running around with a football gets the players? legs moving and other players as well because they chase the football. Flag football keeps ones arms active. Throwing a football or catching it can help the players? muscles in their arms. Most players like using their arms and legs to play which makes flag football a popular sport.
Skeet Shooting is a recreational and competitive shooting activity in which you use a shotgun. One or two targets are thrown at once and you have to shoot both of them for them to be consider dead. The targets alway fly in the same direction and have the same angle, the only thing that changes is your position. There are different types of skeet shooting, international, Olympic, and American. American skeet is the easiest out of them.
Speedball is played by two teams. It can be played with fewer members on each team. A lot of Techniques are used in speedball, including kicking and dribbling the ball with the feet as in soccer.The object of the game is for the team in possession of the ball to advance the ball down the field toward the opponent's goal line and attempt to score. The opponents of the team in possession of the ball try to intercept and obtain possession of the ball in order to move it toward the goal line in an attempt to score. Some rules of the game are: It consists of four quarters much like a basketball game. Each quarter can be up to 12 minutes long.Kickoff must travel the length of the ball and may be lifted by the foot to a teammate. It may not be
GO! GO!¨ screamed the ref and right when he said the first “go” everybody sprinted. I ran towards the gas pumps and walked into the gas station while taking point marker ready.When I get into the gas station I cross the doorway and as I crossed all I heard was the extremely fast fire rate of a speedball marker and the wall behind me was covered in paint. I told my buddy to halt so he wouldn't cross the doorway and get shot up. I couldn't tell if this guy was on full auto or he was really good at walking the trigger. I realized that I could have been covered in paint because about five feet away was another doorway to another building and sitting there was a speedballer. My heart was racing because I knew this was an experienced player with about $1500 or more dollars worth of gear on him. But I did notice that he was sitting and waiting to shoot at the doorway so I knew that the best thing to do was to snap shoot. I tell my buddy to cover the left side as I snap shot so we don't get ambushed. I started snap shooting and my first couple and missed, but I had no time for accuracy because this speedballer was not going to let me flank his team's strong point. I snap shot until I hear him yell “HIT!” with his marker in the air. I move to the next building. I realized there were two enemies behind a car creating havoc for our guys flanking right at the abandoned hotel. So I started to shower them with paint until I got one out, but I couldn't get the other one out.
More established men, for example, 90 are standing right next to nine year old young men trap shooting. A considerable measure of seventy year olds have been playing this game for more than fifty five years or some have quite recently begun two years prior. Numerous sorts of trap shooters are innovators, moguls, ranchers, truck drivers, and performers. All individuals can contend with trap shooting. The age, pay or capacities matter. There are three types of trap shooting rivalries and they are as per the following: singles, impede, and twofold target shooting. An objective is flung from one trap in every one of the three occasions. In these occasions, 12 - gauge shotguns are utilized. Singles trap shooting is the place the challenger will fire from a progression of five stations found 16 yards behind the trap. The earth targets are then sprung out of the trap at different edges and in different bearings upon the hopefuls signal. The mud targets will ascend to a base tallness of 10 foot, and unless hit, will tumble to the ground generally around 150 foot from the trap. Trap shooting champions will hit 100 out of 100 targets. Disabled trap shooting is the place the contender with prevalent records must shoot from stations that are found 17 - 27 yards behind the trap. Twofold target shooting is the point at which the trap will spring two mud focuses into the air at the same time in distinctive
Ping pong is a sport played on a table with paddles and a ball. Two opposing players stand on opposite ends of the table. Their objective is to volley the ball back and forth over the net. The paddle is usually made from laminated wood covered with