Tuesday, January 19, 2010

There's No School Like Old School

By Robby Thompson

The world was made a more active, exciting, adventurous, and lively place when the outdoor participation sport known as paintball was conceived. This is one sport that can be played by any and all people, so long as that person has the money to do so, even for just renting the equipment and the battle field. This is a sport that can be enjoyed, and has been enjoyed by players from different backgrounds, from different proffrsions, from different ages, and even from different countries. There are more than forty million countries that delight in playing this one sport, and with millions that have over the history of the sport played it, it can be considered, and is considered as one of the world's most exciting sports around.

Paintball was once upon a time intended to be a game of skill. The skill in handling a firearm, that does not aim to hurt one physically, but possibly just to bruise and ego or two. Paintball is a team battle made up of snipers, using strategy to take out the enemy. It can be related to guerrilla warfare, only with paintballs and not bullets. Unlike the games of today, the pump paintball gun was what the people of the original game used. Pump paintball was the original, and some consider it the best way to play.

Paintball is a sport where skill should be considered as the measure of a player's mastery in the sport. When using semi-automatic and automatic paintall guns, a paintballer doesn't really show all of what he is worth. Those rapid-fire paintball guns need not really be aimed, they release a stream of continuous paint balls. Those types of paintball markers as the guns are also called are used and can be used by amatuers, which sometimes can make even a beginner look like a veteran in the paintball world.

When playing the paintball game, if one were to use a pump paintball gun, that person would be able to show his or her real worth in the field of battle. The pump paintball user would have the chance to showcase his or her skills. The player would be forced to aim for targets and not just let balls fly and hope that one of them actually hits a target. While a rapid-fire gun or marker could be used to mark where a target is for a comrade to spot and help take out, the single shot pump paintball gun would force the player to pay close attention to his or her surroundings.

There are many places all over the country that one can find paintball supplies, but very few of these actually sell those toys of old, those pump paintball guns. The easiest and probably the most convenient place to find pump paintball guns is on the internet. If there is one place in the world that sells those things, it is the internet.

Paintball is played on a variety of formats with many interchangeable rules, but at its most basic level, paintball is a game, a sport that combines tag, hide and seek, and capture the flag. Its the real life fun version of playing any first person shooter games out in the world today, only more exciting.

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