Why paintball has to be an Olympic Sport!

[Buddha 3]

Despite the fact that in the pro leagues there is an ongoing shift towards true athleticism (and that's coming from a guy who usually pisses himself laughing when he hears paintballers calling themselves athletes), paintball has as much chance of making it to the Olympics as melodic farting.

 

[captain col]

Ollie Langs team talk at the start ,the bbc bleep machine would go into melt down

 

[Ralph]

There is 19,509 Members at the moment on this forum

We banned 17,000 of those already.

Soon to be 17,001

 

[Ralph]

paintball has as much chance of making it to the Olympics as melodic farting.

Jelly wrestling is first in line.

All categories, Strawberry,Orange & Lemon & Lime are my favorites.

 

[Ralph]

What is the ukpsf doing to promote our sport ?

Out of interest are you a member. ?


Ask not what the UKPSF is doing for you. Ask what you can do for the UKSPF.

Thanks JFK

 

[Ralph]

one e-mail from everyone and then there is paintball nation .

Is that a bit like, if everyone puts down Jedi on the sensus form as their religion it becomes a recognised religion.?

Further more how would you word this E-mail ?

Dear sir,
Me and a few chaps want to get together to make paintball an olympic sport.blah blah blah..... so in conlusion we get on to the field of play and shoot eachother.

it is a big voice might not get us what we like but we may get noticed and that’s a start.

It would get us noticed but we wouldn't have to worry about the fun police. Only the real ones.


On a side note,If international paintball were to take off, whereby country played country here's a list of games that i would not want to REF.

Russia V Georgia
Israel V Anyone you care to name in the Middle East.
India V Pakistan
GB V Aussies
Aussies V NZ
Argentina V Uraguy
Turkey V Greece

 

[Basik]

Another reason that it will never be on the Olympics is that it's **** to watch.

Then again, so is archery.

 

[Ralph]

Another reason that it will never be on the Olympics is that it's **** to watch.

Then again, so is archery.

Not if your the target......

 

[evoonline]

there is talk of 2012 reintroducing tug-o-war or cricket or real tennis or racket ball or croquet. paintball beats any of those.

 

[JamesJDdavis]

Do you really want it in the Olympics ? do you think it will actually benefit the sport, do you think it will even be broadcast at a time where many people will watch it or for very long ?

I was friends with a large group of people that were responsible for the instigation of the original campaign to get BMX racing in the Olympics, their argument was: Its an international sport, covered extensively on TV in some countries, with a large amount of external sponsors (Red bull, Relentless, Nike etc) and its another branch of cycle sports that deserves the respect and coverage that other disciplines within that medium recieve.
Anyway, they suceeded, for the first time ever this year bmx racing will be in the olympics, we even have our own Olympic hopeful Shanaze Reade, who is arguably one the Lewis Hamilton of BMX
(although she crashed severely earlier today putting her out of contention for this olympics), so all is going well right ?
Not really, in fact not alot has changed at all, have any more
big name/mainstream sponsors entered the sport in general because of this ? no, has it suddenly sky rocketed in popularity because its now in the olympics ? only time will tell, although I'm sure it won't hurt, what kind of TV coverage does it get now ? limited to a short slot very early in the morning, (between 1:00am and 6:00am tomorrow morning) where it is highly likely that hardly anyone in this country will see it, compared to the other sports that are being broadcasted at more sensible times.
The point of this whole long speech ? don't assume just because a sport makes it to the olympics that its going to do anything at all to benefit the sport, or that its even a good thing, bmx racing will probably continue to carry on exactly as it is regardless of it being an olympic sport or not.
I'm not going to go on about what I think paintball as a sport needs to do, but its just my perspective from someone who has seen firsthand what it takes to get a sport into the olympics, and how difficult it was for a relatively main stream (in comparison to paintball) sport, which is already associated with another very main stream sport (cycle sports generally) to get there.