Paintball, still not accepted.

[Tower3003]

Recently a paintball club at a major university was trying to plan on-campus tournament between sororities and fraternities. The university turned them down becuase they didnt was to promote the idea of shooting at other people.

Latter, at a diffrent university there was simular plans, they wanted to start a tournament as well, but they were stopped for the same reason-they don't want to potray a violent image.

Appareenty, they do not consider paintball a sport. Us paintballin' type arn't welcome to on-campus recreation.

Martial Arts tournaments are held there, and thats ok-even though beating people us isn't. Fencing tournaments are also held there, but it's not ok to go attacking people with swords.

Perhapes if they listened to a little logic, and we said it just the right way, we'll be accepted. But in my opnion, it's been to long. There are 6 million people in the world that play paintball, add all of there freinds and family, and that makes a WHOLE LOT of people that know paintball for what it is: a sport.

Paintball is number four in the top extreme sports, and shows no sighn of slowing down. Paintball's been in exsistace for 20 years, and were just now starting to be accepted. And thats far to long, don't you think?

[Richy_C]

thats bull crap, on campus games would be fun

[iipaintballer]

I agree..

[Mad Ogre]

I've played on Campus before... Yeah - it was big fun!
Dixie College in St George, Utah.
Blast!
Game got called short due to police officers getting in the way... (hey - I was new to paintball way back then!)

[MuckRaker]

Ole Miss has a paintball club and has been trying to encourage other colleges to follow suit and form collegiate leagues. Sounds good to me, Wish someone woulda thought of it when i was in college.

[filasophikal]

by the time they form a collegiate league... i will be out of college, married, and a baby on the way... even though it would be nice... but i do believe that i will see the day that paintball will be accepted as an actual sport...

[cranberynvodka]

i dont understand man i bet when u go out to the field and play a nice game of paintball no one really wants to hrt anyone nor act like they kill people out there its just a sport like basketball people play laser tag but no 1 thinks that as killing the other person to tell u the truth i dont think paintball is violent at all

[DasBaldDog]

Hell, me and a whole lot of guys in my dorm building played a game about a month ago on a field tht the university set up for us. (It was like a whole day thing, like one dorm versus another and frats/sors) To make it even more ironic, this is a Religious Private college.

[elTwitcho]

Heh, I can imagine the rulebook "If a ball hits a player and breaks leaving a quarter sized mark, that player is smitten and must leave the game. Players may not reenter the game, but will be resurected before the next one. If a ball bounces off a player without breaking, he is redeemed and may continue in his crusade for the flag"

[JesterDude15]

I played paibntball at a local park once.

It was cool....my friends suck....at paintball....

[Jake]

Hey I work at a park and would be super pissed if I had to clean up all the paint on buildings and stuff and didn't get to make some of the mess.

[davidb]

Originally posted by elTwitcho
Heh, I can imagine the rulebook "If a ball hits a player and breaks leaving a quarter sized mark, that player is smitten and must leave the game. Players may not reenter the game, but will be resurected before the next one. If a ball bounces off a player without breaking, he is redeemed and may continue in his crusade for the flag"
LOL! We have the Holy Squadbuster! (Monty Python :D)
Actually, Tower3003, you make a very good point, but the number of people in the world who play paintball isn't 6,000,000, it's 11,000,000! Six million is in the USA alone. That works out to roughly 1/50 Americans who play. Really an incredible number for a still semi-underground sport. Some time this week I'm going to go talk to my principal (hopefully, at least I plan to) about starting a paintball club in my high school. If any school can have it happen, it's mine, and if anyone can make it happen, it's me. I love this sport. There are employees at my school who want to come play with us sometime, my history teacher (best teacher I've ever had), my friends' history teacher, the Class of 2003 counselor, and probably more that we just don't know about. Don't worry, I'm not just going to go in and let the principal make an uninformed decision, I'm going to bring in magazines, my friends, a sponsor (teacher who will back us/keep an eye on us), and anything else I can think of. I want to educate him on it, cause let's face it, anybody who really finds out a lot about paintball is going to approve. Of course, we would never be able to bring our markers on campus, but we could arrange big games, have raffles (probably with no gun prizes since we wouldn't know what kind of person it would be going to, but still we could award like an all expenses paid day of paintball or something), and other things like that. Imagine a students vs. faculty paintball game!

[Incube]

lol where i come from halifax wont let there be a paint ball field with in 50 km of the city limits i got to traval far to play

[Skull]

We had a sports recomendation form at my school, that we filled out a month ago.. 73% of the guys in our school recommended a school sponsored paintball team. They turned it down for the same reasons as everyone else "it promotes violent behavior". O and guess what team is being currently evaluated... RIFELRY!!!** There reason for this over paintball is that "it does not promote violence" because they r shooting targets instead of people. So we teach kids to have pinpoint accuracy with a real weapon hmmmm let me think whats wrong with this picture?!!

[Incube]

Originally posted by Skull
We had a sports recomendation form at my school, that we filled out a month ago.. 73% of the guys in our school recommended a school sponsored paintball team. They turned it down for the same reasons as everyone else "it promotes violent behavior". O and guess what team is being currently evaluated... RIFELRY!!!** There reason for this over paintball is that "it does not promote violence" because they r shooting targets instead of people. So we teach kids to have pinpoint accuracy with a real weapon hmmmm let me think whats wrong with this picture?!!
huh mabey the paintball and pinpoint accuracy part ! what the hell what kind of guns do the teachers think you play with flatline shotguns?

[Incube]

oh ho the wepons arent real too!

[Silent Knight]

hell yea paintball is fun

but then again. paintball on campus? to me that would seem like another excuse to go ahead and pull a student shoot out, and blame it on paintball! I wouldn't be surprised if that happened. those losers!

Check it out though. Private high schools here in Hawaii, are going to make Paintball a sport just like football. Compete with other highschool teams! damn, i wish i was still in HS

[ammoman]

Originally posted by davidb
Originally posted by elTwitcho
Heh, I can imagine the rulebook "If a ball hits a player and breaks leaving a quarter sized mark, that player is smitten and must leave the game. Players may not reenter the game, but will be resurected before the next one. If a ball bounces off a player without breaking, he is redeemed and may continue in his crusade for the flag"
LOL! We have the Holy Squadbuster! (Monty Python :D)
Actually, Tower3003, you make a very good point, but the number of people in the world who play paintball isn't 6,000,000, it's 11,000,000! Six million is in the USA alone. That works out to roughly 1/50 Americans who play. Really an incredible number for a still semi-underground sport. Some time this week I'm going to go talk to my principal (hopefully, at least I plan to) about starting a paintball club in my high school. If any school can have it happen, it's mine, and if anyone can make it happen, it's me. I love this sport. There are employees at my school who want to come play with us sometime, my history teacher (best teacher I've ever had), my friends' history teacher, the Class of 2003 counselor, and probably more that we just don't know about. Don't worry, I'm not just going to go in and let the principal make an uninformed decision, I'm going to bring in magazines, my friends, a sponsor (teacher who will back us/keep an eye on us), and anything else I can think of. I want to educate him on it, cause let's face it, anybody who really finds out a lot about paintball is going to approve. Of course, we would never be able to bring our markers on campus, but we could arrange big games, have raffles (probably with no gun prizes since we wouldn't know what kind of person it would be going to, but still we could award like an all expenses paid day of paintball or something), and other things like that. Imagine a students vs. faculty paintball game!


That means that if Al Gore supported paintball he may have won! :D:D

[Mad Ogre]

Paintball Markers and Firearms are one and the same to many administrators. Hence asking them to allow the sport is the same as asking to go on a field trip to a SWAT trainging range.

Too many people have heard of the stories about kids doing drive bys or firing gobstoppers at windows... putting eyes out... red paint... teaches violence...

If you want to 4th largest and fastest growing extreme sport to be accepted - you have to take responsibility for it. Think of it as YOUR SPORT. You've heard of "Think Globally, act Locally" right? Apply it to your favorite 300 FPS Sport.
Make it your calling in life to promote the sport in a possitive light.
If you see someone being unsafe - call him on it.
If you hear of a kid causing trouble with his marker on friday nights... take all your paintball buddys and go to his house and talk to this kids folks and him. Tell him to knock it off as diplomatically as you can. If it continues - call the Police on him! Get him busted before he does something that catches the eye of the Media and all the sudden Paintball is an "ISSUE."
Write articles about paintball that explain the sport, the upsides of it and make it real positive and upbeat - submit those articles to your school paper. Raise Interest.
If you have a few extra bucks - buy an extra set of gear so you can have other people, newbies and sceptics come out and play. You dont have to buy fancy guns... Think about it this way: "This is what Brass Eagle is for!"
If you have a team and everyone has a loner set... and everyone brings out a sceptic every time you go out to practice for your bigger games... you will slowly and methodically change your local area's attitude. You bring one person out and he or she has a good time - that person will go talk to other people about it... It will spread like cancer.
Trust me. I've done this with shooting in my office... My company used to be a real Anti-Gun establishment. Now? After 2 short years thats changed 180*. Not only is talking guns just fine - but there is even a gun trivia contest that I put up and its accepted!

You can make a difference. You just have to do it.