What attracted you to Paintball? [Archive]

123justin

07-20-2002, 08:27 AM

From advertisements on TV. It looked really fun. The competition and real sportsmanship and seriousness of having fun in the sport.

Also I used to be a big laser quest guy until everybody didnt take it seriously and just started walking around and just running into ppl and walk by shooting. It got real boring and I needed an alternate past time.

UTLadiesMan

07-20-2002, 09:35 AM

I was attracted to paintball because it was overrun with multitudes of the hottest chicks in the world. I later found out I was lied to, but I still liked the game so I stuck with it.

blinkpk11

07-20-2002, 10:04 AM

Originally posted by UTLadiesMan
I was attracted to paintball because it was overrun with multitudes of the hottest chicks in the world. I later found out I was lied to, but I still liked the game so I stuck with it.

aww man thats what i was going to say....no but seriously, my friends got me into it, and then i never looked back.

speeddemon0016

07-20-2002, 10:14 AM

i first wanted something to do and then i realized this website. this website made me like paintball more and more.

StealthElephant

07-20-2002, 10:22 AM

I wanted to play at first when I was like 13 in 7th grade...but my parents said no to a weapon being in my hands.

I played counter strike religiously for like 18 months and wanted to sorta play the 1st person shooter in real life. my friends were starting to play so I bought the tippmann power pack and have been addicted ever since.

halB

07-20-2002, 10:59 AM

well i guess it started with nerf. i played nerf.

BUT I SWEAR I WAS LIKE 5 YEARS OLD AT THE TIME!!!

after that i love qsar (laser tag) i even bought those oh so crappy home things. well found out bout paintball, got into it, and well, im damn glad i did. although i cant play for the next 3 months, too hot. people dying of heat stroke left and right

monkeybacon00

07-20-2002, 11:47 AM

Thats why im glad my field has night games. Its really hot here in south carolina.

My friend was having a birthday and he wanted to go play paintball. So we all went out and bought some BE talons, I played one game with that gun, threw it in the trash and rented a gun. Ive played sports before but they werent anything like paintball. And then my field built a speedball field. I almost died of pleasure. And from then on EVERY SINGLE PENNY i have earned has gone towards either playing or equipment, that was a year ago and im still buying stuff.

Ive gone through:

BE blade
Renting a Tippmann a lot
Spyder Compact
Black Dragun
RAT Impulse (I love this thing!)

And now that my field owner knows me real good, i get discounts left and right, and his products are already really cheap. 1 case of proball for $35.

Spencer16896

07-20-2002, 11:48 AM

I heard some kids at school talking about it and they said they were SO good. So my brother got 2 markers from Wal Mart and we showed them up. It was really fun. What I didn't like was they gave up when they got shot because they said we weren't playing fair... stupid. They just didn't like it because they never actually splattered eachother and we did to them.

Well I didn't want to play after that because I didn't think there was anyone left to play with. But I found SC Village Paintball park, went there and played, bought an ACI F4 Illustrator and have been playing ever since.

matt197

07-20-2002, 11:53 AM

my brother really wanted to buy a paintballgun so i thought heck its gonna only cost me 130 dollars why not try it out now im hooked on it and spending all my money playing paintball

UTLadiesMan

07-20-2002, 12:04 PM

Originally posted by matt197
my brother really wanted to buy a paintballgun so i thought heck its gonna only cost me 130 dollars why not try it out now im hooked on it and spending all my money playing paintball

only cost 130... you know better than that. :P

The first one's always free. :laugh:

Moose

07-20-2002, 12:20 PM

One of my friends told my friends and I about it. I got a small group together and we went to a field and loved it. Ever since then I've loved paintball. :love: :D

camoman5000

07-20-2002, 12:37 PM

I think one of my friends told me that his uncle and cousins paintballed, and that they had like Impys,Bushmasters, and Tippmanns. He said it was really fun, and then I began looking on the internet for sites like this, and I began looking at guns, and comparing, seeing what was good. Then I bought a Talon Ghost, played with it a few games, then I bought a Tigershark from a kid for like 10 bucks. It leaked,It still leaks, but I still love it. Then after a few games with those 2 guns, I did a bunch of research and bought my JT 4.0. I've only played a couple of games with it, I just got it like 4 months ago. And thats where I'm stationed now, thanks to my friend.

monkeybacon00

07-20-2002, 01:02 PM

kind of off topic here, but camoman you need to take the CIA thing out of your sig, the council is over.

halB

07-20-2002, 01:09 PM

ITS NOT OVER!!! THE COUNCIL WILL LIVE ON FOREVER!!!

turtlemonkey

07-20-2002, 01:43 PM

went with my frind on his birth day and played ever sence

matt197

07-20-2002, 02:26 PM

ladiesman.. it costed 130 for a traccer s/a and everything else i needed

Aglar

07-20-2002, 03:15 PM

I've always liked laser tag, and paintball is like laser tag but with strategy and consequence. It's a lot more fun, and I stuck with it.

kent

07-20-2002, 05:18 PM

actually it one time i was with my cous and for my B-day he took me to the world cup 1999 it was awesome! i knew nuthin abot the sport but after i went to this i knew tons more and then i bought my stingray!

UTLadiesMan

07-20-2002, 11:22 PM

Originally posted by matt197
ladiesman.. it costed 130 for a traccer s/a and everything else i needed

How much have you spent after that though? That was my point, it wasn't "only 130 dollars" to get into paintball. It is probably closer to somewhere around every cent you will ever make...

IromKnight

07-20-2002, 11:29 PM

My friend got me into it at the begginging of high school. I went to thepaintballstore.com and ordered the cheapest spyder:laugh:
The sad thing is I still have that thing...

tonysk83

07-21-2002, 07:17 AM

my cousin played and my brother borrowed my cousins gun and from the first time i shot that gun i wanted to play and i did:), but of course i was dead broke so i waited til christmas, a few months a way, i got a tippmann 98c, and then i recently bought an autcocker

matt197

07-21-2002, 12:02 PM

Originally posted by UTLadiesMan

How much have you spent after that though? That was my point, it wasn't "only 130 dollars" to get into paintball. It is probably closer to somewhere around every cent you will ever make...

i spent lots and lots of money...........but it costed 130 to get started out with a gun hopper mask co2 bottle

rver4life26

07-21-2002, 08:37 PM

WELL I REMBER IT WAZ AT THE BEGGINING OF THE SKOOL YEAR AND 1 OF MY ELECTIVES WAZ SPANISH AND EVERY1 IN THERE WAZ GEEKS AND WE HAD TO SIT AT LIKE GROOPS SO I SAT AT THE TABLE THAT LOOKED LIKE THE KIDS WERE KINDS KOOL THEY WERE ALWAYS LOOKIN AT PAINTBALL MAGZINES AT FIRST I THOUGHT IT WAZ SO *** AND THEY WERE SO STUPID BUT I STARTED LOOKIN AT THE MAGZINES AND I THOUGHT THAT IT WAZ KINDA KOOL SO I WENT TO MY LOCAL PRO SHOP AND BOUGHT A SPYDER COMPACT DELUX WENT TO A FIELD AN IVE BEEN PLAYIN EVER SINCE WHEN I TOLD U ABOUT THE SPANISH CLASS I WAZ GOIN TO TRANSFER TO A DIFFERENT CLASS BUT THE LADY WHO DOSE THAT WASNT THERE 1 DAY AND I THINK IF SHE WAZ THERE THAN I WOULDNT BEEIN PLAYIN PAINT BALL RITE NOW AND WHEN I SAID I THOUGHT THOSE I SAT W/ WERE GEEKS THERE NOW MY BEST FRIENDS

CORE 10

07-21-2002, 09:11 PM

ahh ..all caps..man thats annoyin, but yea i went out and bout a 98 c so i could play but then i never got to it and like a few months later i played one weekedn and so far i have been back every weekend after that.

Devastator

07-22-2002, 06:45 AM

I played laser tag, thought there were too many limitations, so I signed up to go on fieldtrip w/summer camp to paintball, and ever since I've been hooked!

Incube

07-22-2002, 07:51 AM

Well just the fact of a new hobby and something to do with my friends..tho only me and one friend outta the 5 who started out still play almost evry weekend...and i like haveing the ability to make my own dissiions juring play

Twista-Joint

07-22-2002, 03:09 PM

first i did it because it looked fun then i started palying because i was looking for a new sport to play. I did karate, got a blackbelt. i rockclimbed for a while i just couldnt jet in to it or make any close friends doing it . I never liked any normal sports, football, baseball etc. Paintball is the best thing i ever could have done.:D :D

Untoucable2

07-22-2002, 05:45 PM

Nothing really, my friend made me go cause he was all puss about it, ended up being a lot of fun. I wupped his Asss

Congobongo

07-22-2002, 09:54 PM

The free hats

Dravion

07-23-2002, 08:16 AM

well, when I was 17 a couple guys in my class talkeda bout, almost had a spyder for my first gun, if I had 100 dollars on me I would have had it. But I didn't. So me and my friend talked about it for awhile, and last fall my school took a trip to CPX (this is college now) and it was really cheap, I think the only thing I payed for was like the rentals. There were like 3 or 4 people from my school there. and well.. I've been hooked ever since.... I'm sure the thing that got me hooked was the fact that I play counter strike all the time and It's really limited and with paintball, I'm not as limited. I also like the rush.... I like getting out there in the middle of all of it. So yeah. That's me.

Mremeat

07-23-2002, 10:13 AM

I had this stuff called money, and i felt like i needed to throw it away. That and the sneaking around stuff, then i got into speedbal :)

Aglar

07-24-2002, 01:58 PM

Originally posted by Twista-Joint
first i did it because it looked fun then i started palying because i was looking for a new sport to play. I did karate, got a blackbelt. i rockclimbed for a while i just couldnt jet in to it or make any close friends doing it . I never liked any normal sports, football, baseball etc. Paintball is the best thing i ever could have done.:D :D

Funny, I followed the same path. Karate, rock climbing, and now paintball.