No, but a lot more people were!its got to be because i certainly wasnt into paintball 10 years ago
Paintballing popularity
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I dont think many people have died in paintball, I know in America apparantly someone got their head taken off by a rocketing co2 bottle at a site... but I doubt a 2% chance of death.
Good chance of blindness if you just dont understand a 300FPS paintball hitting you in the eye may cause a little bit of damage....
Good chance of blindness if you just dont understand a 300FPS paintball hitting you in the eye may cause a little bit of damage....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1628682.stm
There ya go thats all I could find on deaths and it says only 1 ever aand in the uk too but then I guess a lot can happen in 5 years. Yet I doubt it took into account paintball related deaths as I know quite a few people have snuffed it from faulty air tanks going pop etc.
There ya go thats all I could find on deaths and it says only 1 ever aand in the uk too but then I guess a lot can happen in 5 years. Yet I doubt it took into account paintball related deaths as I know quite a few people have snuffed it from faulty air tanks going pop etc.
It seems to me that a lot of people posting in this thread have little to no idea what the hell they are talking about - ending up in a thread that does us all no favours whatsoever.
It would seem we don't really need a bunch of people to get killed to fukk our sport up, bejeeezus, we got a bunch of idiots on here who will do it out of pure ignorance for free
It would seem we don't really need a bunch of people to get killed to fukk our sport up, bejeeezus, we got a bunch of idiots on here who will do it out of pure ignorance for free
I dunno what that means but please don't.I doubt a misdemeanor of that kind justifies a comment like that, how about I come round your house and lop yer head off every time you go 35 in a 30........?
And Mikey, that figure is news to me, are you suggesting 11 people have died in the UK whilst playing paintball and the deaths were directly attributable to the playing of paintball ????
So 11 was just a random number then, so have people died becuase they did things such as taking their mask off half way through a game?
well as of 2001 no but quite a few people have been blinded etc from doing stupid things like that.
I would try to look at it from a punters point of view, if you see here "we kill sukas" or such other terms it may put me off, also in America there has been a huge drive for woodsball recently, I just think it's down to how the sport is portrayed.
Paintball in general has lost popularity in this country, however across the pond it is growing.
Think about it, the price for play, the attitude of either I can't be bothered or I will win at any cost, the ego trips of a lot of player and the overall lack of public understanding is what would put me off the most, in America they have most of that eradicated.
Woodsball has it's own national leauge, Speedball is on a constant up, mil sim has so many "big game" events it's unbelieveable and paintball is understood by a lot on the street.
Paintballing is just so acessable and is already understood in most of it's forms, we can't say the same for this country where until I asked a marshal on a day out had no idea about how paintballing is such a huge industry ect.
Just my 2 pence.
Paintball in general has lost popularity in this country, however across the pond it is growing.
Think about it, the price for play, the attitude of either I can't be bothered or I will win at any cost, the ego trips of a lot of player and the overall lack of public understanding is what would put me off the most, in America they have most of that eradicated.
Woodsball has it's own national leauge, Speedball is on a constant up, mil sim has so many "big game" events it's unbelieveable and paintball is understood by a lot on the street.
Paintballing is just so acessable and is already understood in most of it's forms, we can't say the same for this country where until I asked a marshal on a day out had no idea about how paintballing is such a huge industry ect.
Just my 2 pence.