Future thoughts, where are we going.

[fatrix_1]

what could people do though? if some people knew what to do and how to do it they may be motivated more to get their ass into gear?

there will be some people who want to expand and there will always be ones that do not but somewhere one group will eventually have to cave in a little or maybe compromise between the 2 otherwise its like tug of war, where the 2 groups are matched but to move on i.e get onto the next level on group will need to give in a bit and allow the other group to go forward and take the sport with them. which group will it be? who knows?

cant think of anything else sorry

 

[Lovetone]

as soon as someone can prove to me a real semi mode exists I would support the dumping of ramping but until then I want to see a mode used that stops the one sided cheating.

There are still gun cheats at the PA despite the PSP gun rules sadly.

 

[Maddogwhitey]

honeslty, i think paintball is going nowhere.

and arguably, why should it. paintball ,for the most part, will always be a thing for stag parties, or "that thing in the woods" ,or "doesnt it hurt", "but i saw in byker grove" , yada yada. basically, joe public doesnt know, or want to know. **** em. if people are to ignorant to not ask questions or care then why is it our job to change that mindset.

guys, its a sport enjoyed by a statistiaclly significant proportion of people in the uk, people rock up, play, then go home. we will never be as big as football, rugby etc. so lets accept the fact its a minority sport and play because we enjoy it, and for no other reason.

 

[jknight15]

But then again so was skateboarding in the early 80's.

It was only assossiated with long haired surfers who ddnt have any waves to ride so they attached some wheels and off they went. Then along came a guy called Tony Hawk who managed to grab the publics attention and look where its put the sport today, you only have to look around the corner in most citys and you'll see a bunch of skaters trying to land a trick.

But i do understand where you are going with this, the sport is just seen as being a 'fun day out' by your average joe and not really seen as a sport at all. The only people who really see it as a sport are people like us who have gone out and bought our own gear and given up our time and money for it many times over because its what we enjoy doing

EDIT and tbh you cant really say that the sport has become nothing if you think about the sort of money thats being exchanged through sponsorship and such. I mean consider how much value of equipment and gear a nexus player had on their person when they walked on to a sup air field, im guessing a grand or just under that. Lets not forget the big guy Ollie Lang who is bagging atleast 50k a year just for being on a team

 

[Dusty]

But then again so was skateboarding in the early 80's.

It was only assossiated with long haired surfers who ddnt have any waves to ride so they attached some wheels and off they went. Then along came a guy called Tony Hawk who managed to grab the publics attention and look where its put the sport today, you only have to look around the corner in most citys and you'll see a bunch of skaters trying to land a trick.

But i do understand where you are going with this, the sport is just seen as being a 'fun day out' by your average joe and not really seen as a sport at all. The only people who really see it as a sport are people like us who have gone out and bought our own gear and given up our time and money for it many times over because its what we enjoy doing

EDIT and tbh you cant really say that the sport has become nothing if you think about the sort of money thats being exchanged through sponsorship and such. I mean consider how much value of equipment and gear a nexus player had on their person when they walked on to a sup air field, im guessing a grand or just under that. Lets not forget the big guy Ollie Lang who is bagging atleast 50k a year just for being on a team

Thats Fair enough, but take any sport, and there are always one or two success stories, doesn't mean that the sport at its base level is going anywhere.
Skateboarding is still really the haunt of the long haired ones who listen to grunge and metal music.
Paintball is still seen by Joe Public as crawling round in the woods pretending to be a squaddie for the day. If us tournament players can change that perception then we are getting places................

 

[wongo]

I am surprised that no one has picked up on the negative gun culture issue that is receiving a lot of media coverage at the moment. Does this not provide an ideal opportunity to get paintball into inner city areas as a means of providing a focused and constrictive outlet for kids involved or interested in this ‘gun culture’?

This coupled with the additional angle of the social exclusion due to the prohibitive cost of paintball sounds like a good basis for one of those ‘social projects’.

 

[Cusack]

I am surprised that no one has picked up on the negative gun culture issue that is receiving a lot of media coverage at the moment. Does this not provide an ideal opportunity to get paintball into inner city areas as a means of providing a focused and constrictive outlet for kids involved or interested in this ‘gun culture’?

This coupled with the additional angle of the social exclusion due to the prohibitive cost of paintball sounds like a good basis for one of those ‘social projects’.

I can see the headlines now 'The ghetto learns to shoot straight'

Unless you put alot of spin (as in, positive reminders) people will disapprove of it, paintball is aggressive, why would any politician stick their head on that block? I do think it serves as good team building and could give those kids a direction, but if i wasn't a paintball player i wouldn't approve of gangs getting gun training!

 

[Silky]

uk paintballers are in the majority lazy and are happy playing at the level they do, the amount of players striving to get better and play at the highest level they can is minimal.

most players would rather spend fortunes on 3 new guns per year cuz they look nice or think they are gonna turn them into a better player. instead of spending the money on training and improving.

i dont see a future in televising uk paintball when theres prob only a handful of teams worth putting on the TV as in the majority they are the only ones putting the effort into being the best. who wants to watch players shooting right handed outta left handed bunkers, dangling outta bunkers, moaning about overshooting when being shot at by 15 BPS?

top players and teams offer there services for seminars and coaching and the interest is minimal. its a sad state of affairs, the way i see it it will be the same as the last few years, there will be a couple of uk teams playing at a high level and the majority will continue to play once a month buying new kit and telling thier paintball stories in the pub.

i think the point that needs to be addresses is upping the standard of uk paintball not trying to raise the exposure of the sport

 

[NSKlad]

imo i think there needs to be sites round the UK that are intended for punters but are tournament only. No woodsball. Where they will lend out ions or promasters or rails, and halo bs, and PMI air.

where they would charge a fair price for entry, but tournament costs for paint. That way, when a punter is poking round the net loking for his "fun day", he sees this dreamsite and a normal site. So okay, the idea of being a sniper sounds good, but "bugger me, being a squaddie costs a bomb! lets go play at that place with the bouncey castles! much cheaper! better guns!"

then maybe they could offer awards after games, free paint, free entry to a local tournament perhaps! Then the punter could get his mates together and go play at that tourney,borrow some kit, have a good time.

and the site should use ramping! more paint used, more money. and punters would have to learn to walk a trigger, otherwise their more resourceful mates will mow them!


just an idea

 

[wongo]

Unless you put alot of spin (as in, positive reminders) people will disapprove of it, paintball is aggressive, why would any politician stick their head on that block? I do think it serves as good team building and could give those kids a direction, but if i wasn't a paintball player i wouldn't approve of gangs getting gun training![/QUOTE]

Paintball is not really that aggressive certainly not compared to say boxing, martial arts or even rugby. From what I have seen most of the so called aggression is just the sound of poor losers who would soon shut up if they had to have a real confrontation.

In terms of those kids I assume you mean kids from socially deprived areas and backgrounds. That being the case why would paintball not offer a means of direction or be a good pass time? Surely paintball is not only for the middle classes.

I agree regarding not receiving packing from a politician however, you would be surprised by the people that come out of the woodwork when an initiative is seen to succeed.