The Sport of Paintball

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The Sport of Paintball

Whether you playing in a tournament or as a hobby, paintballing is a very fun sport. It is growing and becoming more popular every year. There are professional paintball teams that play in a forest for an entire day. Another way is playing indoors in a large room scattered with barricades. There are many different ways to paintball, this is the best way for beginners

Before you shoot your first paintball you need to take into consideration the type of clothing you wear to paintball. A general rule of thumb is the more padding the less bruises. If you are playing in a wooded area, fatigues are an obvious choice, but playing indoors, a couple of shirts and a pair of jeans work very well. It is also a good idea to wear a pair of gloves with the fingers cut off, because if you are hit in the hand with a paintball it stings. The same thing goes with a hat. There is one thing that you must never play paintball without. That is a face mask. It needs to cover your entire face and include goggles. If you are hit in the eye with a paintball it will put your eye out.

The first thing you need to do to begin playing paintball is find a paintball gun and some paintballs. Since the sport of paintball has risen dramatically over the past few years finding these essentials for the game is easy. If you are playing for an extended amount of time and will be using a large amount of paintballs, then a half of a case will be a good amount of paint to begin with. An average case contains approximately two thousand rounds, or paintballs. Essentially a paintball is a ball with the diameter of a dime that contains paint. The paintballs come in various colors and hold many colors of paint. The outside is ...

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...one team is completely annihilated or they surrender. After game is called, a cheer rises from the winning team. The teams that were just playing try to figure out who shot who and where everyone was located at. You also compare "wounds".

The pain of being shot by a paintball is not that bad, that is if the paintball explodes on impact. If the paintball does not pop on impact, then you are left with a sore spot for a couple of days. Even if the paintball does work properly, you are usually left with a bruise, but the pain leaves after several minutes.

Playing paintball is a fun hobby. It is a great game for relinquishing stress and tension. The downside to paintball is that it is quite violent. Everyone should play paintball once in their life to fill the adrenaline rush and competitiveness of the game. Its like no other you will ever experience.

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