You forgot the bit about having to have a break at half time to give a few ambulances the chance to get back from the hospitals. A bit like Hurling but without large chunks of wood to hit things with.
Paintball at Olympic Games?
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Like I said, a dull gameOriginally posted by Freddie Brockdorff
Looks a bit like basketball for farmers.........
But it makes you wonder why a sport like korfbal has pulled it of and paintball hasn't jet, doesn't it? (although I must say it has been there for nearly a century)
I'dd like to sea Gaealic football! Sounds interesting
That's easy.
There's no money in Korfball. No multi-million-dollar Korfball industry thinking that if they control everything, they can sell more $1500 Korfballs to Korfball players, drive the other Korfball maufacturers out of business, and then cash in on millions in TV revenue.
That's why paintball isn't getting anywhere - any effort to run it like a real sport is quickly quashed bythe folks who don't like the fact that a real sport isn't controlled by anybody.
Paintball is a huge sport compared to some of the examples given in this thread.
What is keeping us out - not just of the Olympic Games - but major media as well, is our poor organisation.
The sad part is, that any attempts to create national federations so far, has been strangled by the lack of support from and industry which appears to see federations as bothersome organisations, that might potentially potentially remove the industry stranglehold on the sport.
What the industry fails to see, is how much benefit they would derive from a federation structure in the long term:
- One unified format without special interests battling eachother
- A media strategy to benefit all of paintball
- Participation in the Olympics
(to mention a few)
So much of the paintball industry is riddled with paranoia and control freaks - when them letting go and letting a federation structure take over, would benefit the industry immensely.
Sad but true
Nick
What is keeping us out - not just of the Olympic Games - but major media as well, is our poor organisation.
The sad part is, that any attempts to create national federations so far, has been strangled by the lack of support from and industry which appears to see federations as bothersome organisations, that might potentially potentially remove the industry stranglehold on the sport.
What the industry fails to see, is how much benefit they would derive from a federation structure in the long term:
- One unified format without special interests battling eachother
- A media strategy to benefit all of paintball
- Participation in the Olympics
(to mention a few)
So much of the paintball industry is riddled with paranoia and control freaks - when them letting go and letting a federation structure take over, would benefit the industry immensely.
Sad but true
Nick
i know im going a little Off Topic now, but i think paintball woudlnt really be accepted in the Olympic games. i was more thinking the X-games. i consider paintball as a extreme'ish sport. correct me if im wrong but i dont see skateboarding, BMX/mountain biking or dirt biking in the olympics, if they arnt, then i dont think that paintball would generally be suited for the olympics.
I agree completely, experienced that first hand at PACE overhere, sadly!
But I don't see why pb could not become an olympic sport simply because it's an extreme sport (why is it an extreme sport in the first place?). Ice hockey for example is (IMHO) an even more extreme sport and it also is an olympic one.
I think that snowboarding hasn't been around long enough to become an olympic sport, but I doubt it will take very long before it will become one since its older brother (skiing) already is one.
Snowboarding IS an olympic sport
- What snowboaders have enjoyed, is the fact that they are a part of the FIS (International Skiing Federation) - which has made the transition easy.
Maybe it's time paintball realises we will never get organised on our own, and contact an existing federation to become part of it?
Nick
could be an idea, but I really wouldn't know which federation to cling on to. Like I mentioned, with snowboarding it is easy, skiing is the one to cling on to. Buth I really don't know the one for paintball.
We have set up the Dutch paintball federation this year, but sadly have had no time to make something of it. We looked but in the Netherlands we have not found anything familiar to cling on to.
So what did you have in mind?
We have set up the Dutch paintball federation this year, but sadly have had no time to make something of it. We looked but in the Netherlands we have not found anything familiar to cling on to.
So what did you have in mind?
I totally agree but who............i mean who is in charge of $hit like federations, i know we have the UKPSF in the UK but what other federations are there?Originally posted by Nick Brockdorff
Snowboarding IS an olympic sport
- What snowboaders have enjoyed, is the fact that they are a part of the FIS (International Skiing Federation) - which has made the transition easy.
Maybe it's time paintball realises we will never get organised on our own, and contact an existing federation to become part of it?
Nick
Maybe if we can try & find out all the paintball federations in the world & get contacts, then i will contact Bully (UKPSF) if he hasn't already seen the post & try & get him to contact the other federations to see if we can in anyway piggy back on to an existing shooting sport federation.
If you also include Robbo, Sergei, Laurent, Bob Long, NPPL, PGI, NPS, DYE, all the shops, all the sites etc etc in on the act & anyone else that might benefit (which is a lot) from Paintball being in the Olimpics then you have a good starting block to at least get the ball rolling
Here is the 1st contact:
UK Paintball Sports Federation
http://www.ukpsf.com/contactus.asp