I want to start up paintballing

[paint baller]

im a 14 year old boy that wants to start paintballing i am right handed and would like to join a club in essex i was watching the campain cup over gloster park and i loved it, so i thought i would come on here and see if i could get into a team. if any one could help me and give me advice that would be awesome. The team would have to be in essex. or i couldnt do it.

Regards
Marc

 

[Kraazon]

When you say you want to start, you mean you want to start properly and you've played before or you've never played before at all?

 

[arg1271]

I think the first question you're going to be asked is:

Have you ever played before?

leading on from that:

Do you have any of your own kit?

Kraazon : beat me to it by seconds.....

 

[ION_CRAZY]

just generally steer clear of lefty's

How much you want to spend on your kit?

Also, mayhem paintball near abridge is great fun, theres a walkon on the 19th.

 

[Suns]

First bit of advice I was ever given was paintballing is not cheap.

Good luck though!

 

[paint baller]

When you say you want to start, you mean you want to start properly and you've played before or you've never played before at all?[/QU yh i av played befor and i enjoyed it alot and i want to start properly

 

[Marcus Geezer]

I've just posted the following in a thread very similair to this one...


You will get a lot of recomendations on here, so best to consider a budget for buying the items you will need to 'walk-on' and play.

The absolute basic equipment you want for tourney ready play is.....

Marker - Ion (£100 used?)
Hopper - Anything that is not gravity fed (Egg?) (£25 used)
Air - Cheapest out their is a PMI 3000psi 0.8litre ally bottle, good for about 500 shots each fill. (£40 used?)
Mask - (£25 used)
Battle pack - (£12 used)
Pots - (£1.50 each)
Squeegee (£4)
Barrel Sock (£5)

Total outlay if all bought used from PGI classifieds... about £200-ish..

Other than paint I think that is all you'd NEED to go play.

With this equipment you should get quite near the 15bps max rate of fire all sites and tourneys should be enforcing.

We all would recomend gloves, trousers, jerseys, head protectors, bottle cover etc, and of course much better much more expensive equipment, but depending on your budget you may want to play for a while first and then buy/upgrade as you get more into it.

Say goodbye to that thing called 'disposable income'..... you'll spend every penny on balling WHEN you get the bug.....

Hope helpful..

 

[paint baller]

im a lefty lol!! i will be at tht walkon, crazy are you going?

i dont no much about it really and i would spend about 1000 pounds in 6 mounths could u tell me more about it

 

[P41ntb4ll3r]

i dont no much about it really and i would spend about 1000 pounds in 6 mounths could u tell me more about it

i havent spent £1000 on all my gear and i got a desent kit you wont need that much

 

[Marcus Geezer]

Whereabouts in Essex are you paint baller?

A £1000 in six months equals about £160 a month. That's a lot of paint my freind!! Average walk-on if you shoot 2000 paint in a day is about £45, but can vary between £40 to £60. Additional site paint is between £25-£40 a box, whilst stores will sell you tourney quality paint for about between £25 to £30 a box, and most sites allow you to bring your own paint after paying a green fee of normally £25, but again some sites charge as little as £15 and some wil try and charge you £35.

Colchester run a very decent walk-on and their green fee's and paint prices are very reasonable. Some 'ahem' other sites will not allow you to bring your own paint and charge perhaps a bit more than what is considered the going rate. You'll get a feel as you browse around the web.

P.S.... I'm left handed.. so watch it you lot!!