i have been involved with training venues now for just over 10 years and due to them coming and going, there has been only a few that have grown enough to have a good following, the pitches however take a hammering, with a football pitch you run all over the field same in rugby and nearly all other sports, however paintball has defined lines and areas that get used all the time and its near on impossable to have a perfect grass pitch, unless you have thousands of pounds to spend on pitch maintainance, this is one of the main bareings on me putting down astro turf its hard wareing, also in autum winter and spring with the weather, most popular training venues suffer with the same problem MUD!! this i hope will be a thing of the past at bricket wood, now the fields have been ploughed the drainage system that is under our pitch will work again, and my final reason is that some torni's play on astro and some on grass thats why im keeping my new No1 pitch as grass (however this will close in autum and not reopen till spring) and the astro pitches will be open all year round, you will get a choice weather to practice on grass or astro, as the mear cat says SIMPLES !
i have always said at bricket wood we want your feed back good or bad if its good were getting it right if its bad hopefully we can change it, so dont be affraid to voice your views as long as its done in a respectfull or constructive way
cheers
yorkie
