Haha! Check out the fisticuffs towards the end...
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I agree with Bluelite: paintball is definitely a contact sport. Maybe indirect contact but still.... What caught my attention is the number of impacts some of the guys get during this preview. Some of the guys are getting hit 4 times point blank range, and seems to me that one gets a couple in the head. I would think that most neophytes to paintball would freak out seeing this.
Definitely hardcore balling. Nothing like what I've seen, even on the Millenium circuit!!! I like the image where Chris Lasoya gets a case of paint in the face just as he goes for a move....
As for being a bunch of gun totting, Yee haw hollerin, I like to hump my cousin and my sister by the way, rednecks, no camo thank you, naked is fine, whats wrong with that!!!! We all are.
Put ten guys together crammed in a minivan for ten hours and it's not much better
Nah seriously listen to what is being said in one of the hustles during the preview.... "We're goona kill them??" If it was said in a different context like Soccer or football it wouldn't be too bad, but you get a team of guys with airguns saying that and you'll have every human rights group up your a**. I dunno, kinda gives charm to the whole thing though. For me theses are some of the most impressive images I have seen on tape and I'm looking forward to seeing 300 FPS.
Definitely hardcore balling. Nothing like what I've seen, even on the Millenium circuit!!! I like the image where Chris Lasoya gets a case of paint in the face just as he goes for a move....
As for being a bunch of gun totting, Yee haw hollerin, I like to hump my cousin and my sister by the way, rednecks, no camo thank you, naked is fine, whats wrong with that!!!! We all are.
Put ten guys together crammed in a minivan for ten hours and it's not much better
Nah seriously listen to what is being said in one of the hustles during the preview.... "We're goona kill them??" If it was said in a different context like Soccer or football it wouldn't be too bad, but you get a team of guys with airguns saying that and you'll have every human rights group up your a**. I dunno, kinda gives charm to the whole thing though. For me theses are some of the most impressive images I have seen on tape and I'm looking forward to seeing 300 FPS.
visit me sometimeOriginally posted by Buddha 3
Or perhaps you're just short and weedy. I wouldn't hit anyone either if I was built that way.
Er no. the same could be said of any sport which involves a projectile.........so tennis becomes a contact sport........even badminton. Contact sports require physical contact and certain levels of pushing and shoving will be accepted, ever been hit by a cricket ball? does that justify tw@ting someone? if you can't take your hits and even the odd lighting up without hitting someone, then go play something else. I know tempers get frayed but it's no excuse. You go on the field expecting to have paintballs fired at you. Why act so surprised when it happens?Originally posted by fred1
I agree with Bluelite: paintball is definitely a contact sport. Maybe indirect contact but still.... What caught my attention is the number of impacts some of the guys get during this preview. Some of the guys are getting hit 4 times point blank range, and seems to me that one gets a couple in the head. I would think that most neophytes to paintball would freak out seeing this.
Definitely hardcore balling. Nothing like what I've seen, even on the Millenium circuit!!! I like the image where Chris Lasoya gets a case of paint in the face just as he goes for a move....
As for being a bunch of gun totting, Yee haw hollerin, I like to hump my cousin and my sister by the way, rednecks, no camo thank you, naked is fine, whats wrong with that!!!! We all are.
Put ten guys together crammed in a minivan for ten hours and it's not much better
Nah seriously listen to what is being said in one of the hustles during the preview.... "We're goona kill them??" If it was said in a different context like Soccer or football it wouldn't be too bad, but you get a team of guys with airguns saying that and you'll have every human rights group up your a**. I dunno, kinda gives charm to the whole thing though. For me theses are some of the most impressive images I have seen on tape and I'm looking forward to seeing 300 FPS.
Yes it hurts, but keep your reaction off the field. IF YOU PLAY PAINTBALL YOU WILL GET LIT UP EVENTUALLY: if it's going to make you have a flashback to nam, then don't play.
One fight on one dvd clip..........look how much reaction it's gotten on here.
Shoot me as many times as you want......I'll get annoyed, I might even call for a marshall, but I won't go beyond shouting at you. You'll only punch me the once, that's nothing to do with paintball.
Jose, the whole point in tennis and Badminton is sending the ball as far from your opponent as possible. The objective is getting the ball past your opponent without him touching it.... Same thing with cricket. Your objective as bowler is to get the ball past the batter without him touching it, and hitting the wicket, where as the batters objective is hitting the ball as far as he can and as far from any outfielder as possible so he can score more runs.
The whole objective of paintball is shooting your opponent. That has a certain amount of contact involved as far as I'm concerned. That doesn't mean I excuse what happened in that image. Though I think its pretty crazy and exciting. But they're both ****ers for shooting themselves that close and they both deserve a kicking for it.
To conclude, I don't know of one sport where it has never ended up in a lil brawlin' except Ping Pong or Badminton. It's just part of life. Men do these sorts of stupid things. So what if it happens on a paintball field once every ten years. I've been playing paintball for a while now and have never seen a fight. I was definitely stoked to see it go down in that preview and can't wait to see more haha. You might say I'm a mindless numbskull that just watches sports on Sundays to see who brawled.... Quite right on that one. Nothing like a baseball brawl though, those are wicked. Then again I spent a year in Uni in Scotland and traveled in Britatin a lil bit. Never seen so many fights.
The whole objective of paintball is shooting your opponent. That has a certain amount of contact involved as far as I'm concerned. That doesn't mean I excuse what happened in that image. Though I think its pretty crazy and exciting. But they're both ****ers for shooting themselves that close and they both deserve a kicking for it.
To conclude, I don't know of one sport where it has never ended up in a lil brawlin' except Ping Pong or Badminton. It's just part of life. Men do these sorts of stupid things. So what if it happens on a paintball field once every ten years. I've been playing paintball for a while now and have never seen a fight. I was definitely stoked to see it go down in that preview and can't wait to see more haha. You might say I'm a mindless numbskull that just watches sports on Sundays to see who brawled.... Quite right on that one. Nothing like a baseball brawl though, those are wicked. Then again I spent a year in Uni in Scotland and traveled in Britatin a lil bit. Never seen so many fights.
Thanks Fred for your first paragraph, last post. My sentiments. Jose, I never said that I condoned the actions of the few or that I was even sympathetic. I agree with you that getting overshot in some games is frustrating but no reason to blow your cool. If something in what I wrote gave that impression, read it another way. By the by, I have never seen a fistfight break out at any of the events that I have been to or at any rec ball I have played, but I have seen two fights during bowling leagues I was in.
Best one was in Hutchinson, Ks. It was men's league night and 40 lanes were full 4 to a lane. Of course there were a lot of wives and kids hanging about. Well two little girls about 4 years old were playing together in the video game area and one of them cussed. She did this where the mother of the other little girl could hear. The mother of the other little girl promptly began to verbally discipline the little girl who had cussed. The mother of the little girl became offended that someone else would discipline her kid which she felt was her job.(Side note: If she was up to the task, her kid probably would not have been at a bowling alley on a school night watching everyone around them smoke and swill beer) So the mother of the little girl promptly confronts and starts a verbal argument with the other woman. This is becoming quite heated and drawing everyones attention. Myself and the other porter working with me that night, stood on the counter to stare down into the little group of people to get a better look at what was going on and observed the two ladies bumping gums as hard as they could go when out of nowhere, the cusser girls mother says," You hit me." Which was a blatant lie as we had all witnessed that no such thing had happened. Lightning quick she hauls off and slaps the discipline lady, who I forgot to mention was quite preggers. Discipline Mom gasps but holds her ground and while Cusser Mom stands there not believing she didn't floor her with her slap, Discipline Mom puts both fists together and smacks Cusser Mom right in the chops with some sort of hammer blow. Cusser Mom staggers backward and is grabbed by a concerned league bowler who doesn't want to see either get hurt. He is promptly punched in the face by the husband of Cusser Mom. Leaguer goes to his knees and everytime he tries to get up, Hubbie punches him again. Hubbie gets in about 3 good shots when one of the guys playing against leaguers team, a big Harley riding dude named Stick, decides that this all looks like fun and promptly smacks Hubbie in the chest with a bag full of 16 lb bowling ball. This deflates Hubbie but brings in his teammates who begin to brawl with everyone in the general area. Now we have a free for all, every man for himself me'lee going on that is involving more and more people who start out trying to break someone up, get hit, and retaliate in kind. Square in the center of this hurricane of testosterone we see the initial combatants, both squarely on their feet, bent at the waist with a death grip on each others hair. This particular style of fighting has been termed by me a "weave-war" and is quite common place in East Waco, Tx. Cusser Mom is not exactly playing fair though because she keeps yanking Discipline Mom forward trying to kick her in the belly. Just about the time people started getting tired, the police showed up. Turns out the other porter had called them instead of just watching the surreal turn of events that were occurring in front of us. Only Cusser Mom was arrested and everyone else was issued citations. Man it was a fun night. Enough typing for now.
Rolling on the Floor dying with laughter..... oh that one is a classic. You got my whole office in tears. Brilliant!!!!!
Sorry, mate, was just a general "no violence in paintball" in no way directed at you. No place for it in our sport......... it's purely a Friday night thing for me.Originally posted by bluelite
Thanks Fred for your first paragraph, last post. My sentiments. Jose, I never said that I condoned the actions of the few or that I was even sympathetic. I agree with you that getting overshot in some games is frustrating but no reason to blow your cool. If something in what I wrote gave that impression, read it another way. By the by, I have never seen a fistfight break out at any of the events that I have been to or at any rec ball I have played, but I have seen two fights during bowling leagues I was in.
High point has still been last Christmas eve...... got punched on the dancefloor (pit) at our usual haunt. I was wearing a full fur reindeer costume...... flipped him over, pinned him to the floor and said" you're getting F!ck all in the morning" priceless..... he was pretty drunk....so all he'll remember is rudolph lamping him, then waking up next to the bins in a back alley on Christmas morning.
See, I'm not anti violence (happen to think it is sometimes big and clever) it's just got a time and a place............ if getting lit up bothers you enough to wallop someone, then go play something else.......sooner or later you'll either
A: hurt someone
B: hit someone who takes you apart.
So give up now before a or b happens.
Oh, and I got javelin withdrawn from P.E. at my school when I was 16.......... unpleasant for all involved.
I'm over competitive, paintball is the only thing I can take part in without getting angry (seriously, even risk), by the time I left school, all they would let me play was badmington. So keep anger out of paintball...... without that it's back to my medication