Hi all,
I am a noobie here and am looking into getting into the sport (not so much sup-air but certainly rec/woodsball).
Having called several sites in the Reading, Newbury, Farnborough and High Wycombe area to see where/when I could look to play, I was shocked to hear from several sites that "there is no market round here for walk ons".
One site I called didnt even know what a walk on was (although to be fair they didnt know what a marker was either........).
So the only place that specifically catered for walk ons within about 10-20 miles of Reading was 'Weekend Warriors', two other sites basically said "we would do it if people booked onto the site, but we dont have a programme for it" we may do it in the future but at the moment there is no market for it in this area. One of those sites did say they used to do it with lots of interest but it all fell off a cliff in 2012 and they may look into doing walk ons every other month from Feb 2015.
So two questions to everyone here:
1) Is the woodsball/recball walk on scene in the Reading/Berkshire area really as dead as has been implied by the local sites?
2) Where do people in this area (assuming they exist) go to do their walk ons (assuming they do more than the 1 a monh at Weekend Warriors).
3) Is there any merit in starting a 'Berkshire Federation' of paintballers to get an idea of people in the area that want to play and perhaps facilitate organising other 'walk ons' at the sites that would do it ad-hoc if enough people could form their own game (it might even help encourage local sites to step up and start looking at this market).
Any thoughts anyone?
-Sharpe
I am a noobie here and am looking into getting into the sport (not so much sup-air but certainly rec/woodsball).
Having called several sites in the Reading, Newbury, Farnborough and High Wycombe area to see where/when I could look to play, I was shocked to hear from several sites that "there is no market round here for walk ons".
One site I called didnt even know what a walk on was (although to be fair they didnt know what a marker was either........).
So the only place that specifically catered for walk ons within about 10-20 miles of Reading was 'Weekend Warriors', two other sites basically said "we would do it if people booked onto the site, but we dont have a programme for it" we may do it in the future but at the moment there is no market for it in this area. One of those sites did say they used to do it with lots of interest but it all fell off a cliff in 2012 and they may look into doing walk ons every other month from Feb 2015.
So two questions to everyone here:
1) Is the woodsball/recball walk on scene in the Reading/Berkshire area really as dead as has been implied by the local sites?
2) Where do people in this area (assuming they exist) go to do their walk ons (assuming they do more than the 1 a monh at Weekend Warriors).
3) Is there any merit in starting a 'Berkshire Federation' of paintballers to get an idea of people in the area that want to play and perhaps facilitate organising other 'walk ons' at the sites that would do it ad-hoc if enough people could form their own game (it might even help encourage local sites to step up and start looking at this market).
Any thoughts anyone?
-Sharpe
