Paintball- Target Sport ??? Not allowed for Duke of Edinburgh.

[ironfather512]

hey

i am currently in the middle of doing my duke of edinburgh award and i have to complele three months of a physical activity. obviously my first choice was paintball but apparently im not allowed to do this because

after awaiting contact from d of e head offfice i was told that as paintball was classed as a target sport it would not meet the criteria of the award.

i asked what exactly a target sport was and why it does not meet the critera for the physical section of the award and got this answer

"The theme of Paintballing is aiming at a target (person)."

although this is true the point of the section is to take part in physical activity. things such as: Tenpin Bowling, Carpet Bowling, Crown Green Bowls, Croquet.

these are accepted as physical recreation but all of themtake very little energy to perform and its very likely that more energy is exerted in a breakout than in a whole game of the ones above.

any thoughts?

thanks

sam

 

[ScottyDog]

i was allowed to do it mate, for all three bronze, sliver and gold.. Strange?

 

[ScottyDog]

try calling it tournament paintball or X-ball, sup' air ball or something like that.....or write to the British paintball organisation and get them to verify it for you. DoE won't be able to argue with that

 

[Ali]

im doin it for mine.....

 

[ScottyDog]

do you ride MX bikes by any chance mate? (motocross boy)

 

[Ali]

ye man i do.. hopefully sellin ma bike for a bigger bike

 

[ScottyDog]

i've raced motocross bikes since i was like 4 years old, i've raced british nationals and international beach race enduro's, nice to have another mx rider on the forum, what u riding atm mate?

 

[Devrij]

what u riding atm mate?

That's begging for a "your mother" joke. Seeing as it's now the weekend, I'll go way off topic and add that I used to ride MX (had an old CR125 when I was a kid and used to go hill-climbing at Gorman back in Cali). I miss it, but I moved onto road bikes, and now can only afford to play paintball. In fact, anyone wanna buy my harley? lol

 

[BubbleGumBob]

you can do paintball for physical and your skill side of DoE im doing mine, just note down every time you play, where u played, how long you trained and what u think you improved the most on and in a tornement just right down who u played for were and the date and the postion u came

simple

 

[Ali]

i replied to his question on his profile lol too keep the mods happy......and a cr125.....you need a cr250 man.....well thats what i want lol