Paintball, Women and TV, whats up?

[PGI's Chris Iaquinta]

Alright Damnit. I want to know why the hell paintball isnt on TV as much as it should be. The last time I saw a broadcast of just a paintball tournament was world cup a few years ago. I mean for christ sake, do we really need a 24hr. marathon of the Lumberjack Championships on ESPEN?!?!?!?!?! I think I know the problem, not enough hot women playing paintball. Who the hell wants to turn on a sports station and see our ugly sweaty asses running up and down the field. Beatrice from JT hasn't been around the paintball scene that long and shes already going to be featured in a womens entertainment cable network thats seen in over 43 million homes across the world. I've been playing forever and the most i've accomplished is being on the cover of a paintball mag. So what if shes asian, tall, hot with nice measurements? Look at me, young, Italian, smart ass, ITS THE SAME DAMN THING. I WANT TO BE ON THE WOMENS ENTERTAINMENT CHANNEL.!! ugh. And another thing, why isnt paintball part of the x-games yet? What is more extreme than paintball? Again, more hot women=more time on TV. You can't tell me Keely is the only good looking girl that plays or wants to play. Guys........bring out your hot girlfriends to play, please please please please, and if your girlfriend is not hot, hey, the world needs female gunsmiths too. Oh yeah that reminds me, hey ant, why arent there any female writers for PGI? That would be so damn cool, who cares if they could write, just put a huge ass pic of them next to their article everytime and make the print so small that you couldn't read it anyways. MORE SKIN=MORE WIN. Who cares if they dont wanna play or write, were men dammit, they listen and work for us.!!!!!!!! We dont listen to women, they only need to listen to us!!!! MAN POWER MAN POWER.....****, my girlfriend needs me to walk her dog, i gotta go. I just hope I can hit submit before she reads this.....TOO LATE!!!! (sounds of chris in pain with groin injury fill the room, followed by silence........he slowly gets up and returns to computer)....where was I? Oh yeah, women are delicate flowers and deserve our undying love and attention. They own the earth and are the keepers of the great poonaie. Now if you don't mind I have a swollen gland I must taking care of now. Cya guys.
Chris
ps.what do you guys think?

 

[PaintballBudgie]

Firstly, I agree we need more Paintball on TV, we need to see Tournaments, well lit, well filmed and with one of those little maps in the top corner with a blob for each player so you can see whats going on. We need lots of cameras so after the game it can be edited together so that the viewer can make sense of what they have just seen. We need a TV station to take a chance on us, with guaranteed air time will come Sponsorship outside of the industry. We need to show the viewing public that Paintball is and can be fast exiting and viewable.

Secondly we do need more Women in Paintball, but not just the curvy, bronzed, baywatch pammie look alikes. We need women in general, (well I don't, cos the wife says she is all I need), ordinary women, women that other women can relate to. Why should we bitch about the lack of pin up quality chicks, look at most of us guys honestly, few too many beers and pies as evidenced by our waist lines, eh? What the hell we've all got masks on anyway.

We need better facilities for families, toilets that are nicer than a hole in the ground, a lot of sites (I know some of you site owners have pristeen lavatorys Sparklie) don't worry too much because 90% of their income comes from blokes. Sites don't waist money on porcelain privvys because most blokes don't care what they p#ss on , in or around anyway. Better safe areas, but with a good view of whats going on, seating thats sheltered from the weather.

I have a dream, stadium tourneys, big screen images Team Red Hot taking the World Cup for the 3rd time..............SPLURGE, eh what??? right oh mum , just five more minutes.

thus ends todays rant.

 

[FAMINE]

Feel free to use my woman as you see fit

 

[Liz]

"Secondly we do need more Women in Paintball, but not just the curvy, bronzed, baywatch pammie look alikes. We need women in general, (well I don't, cos the wife says she is all I need), ordinary women, women that other women can relate to. Why should we bitch about the lack of pin up quality chicks, look at most of us guys honestly, few too many beers and pies as evidenced by our waist lines, eh? What the hell we've all got masks on anyway. "

Thank you Ian. Probably the first time a guy on these boards has said we need more women players without eventually saying they mean more tasty females rather than just players.
We have girls of all shapes, sizes & ages in the sport these days (though probably not as big a variety as you get in the guys
) but the important thing is that we play.
Another little thing to bear in mind guys - very, very few women can be like Sparklie & manage to play/marshall/have much to do with paintball at all & still look stunning at the end of the day! Broken nails, running makeup (if worn), sweaty tangled hair with paint making it go limp & straggly - none of these help a girl look her best. And the clothing etc can only let a girl with a stunning figure look anything at all, even a reasonably slim woman can look like the michelin man by the time she's wearing playing trousers, a big baggy jersey over them & a pack on her back.
So by all means have the cute models parading round the trade stands if you think that will get us more coverage on TV, but let us women who don't have gorgeous looks or a great figure just play on equal terms with the guys. It actually puts many females off playing, the sexist attitudes that are still in our sport today.
OK, mini-rant over for today, but it HAS been winding me up for about 10 years!

 

[PaintballBudgie]

Don't beleive that for one moment Liz, I am sure you are georgous and have a great figure.

 

[Chris - Nexus Eclipse]

WOW!!!

think your self lucky that you have the lumberjack championship. we dont get ESPN. the most we get is mission paintball on bravo which is on ever night......................wait.............thas quite good!

cool

(i would want ESPN though cos they show the NHL)

Chris (never had a nickname) Summers

SAD[YG]

 

[Liz]

Originally posted by Ian
Don't beleive that for one moment Liz, I am sure you are georgous and have a great figure.

Hmm. (Thinks, what's this guy after?)

Sadly, I'm built like a classic back player - can fit behind a coke can but thats about it

 

[SPARKLIE CHICK]

Dear Liz

Thanks for that now were do I send the cookies.

God I am just sooooooooooooo out of touch 1 week away and boy you have all been busy.

Sorry Liz but I barley played last year this is set to change health and staff willing. I tottally agree with the clothing issue but baggy is good on site wether playing or working especially this time or year when your sproting 3 -5 layers who knows if your a 16 or an 8 under that lot. I will also confess to a few months of working far too hard and losing the trail of glamoursness for a bit it's easly done when your on site and forget to have a life cause it's paintball 24 -7. This lapse has been suitably rectifed and now I have gourgeous pink camo bikni which might just see the light of day even if it's only the top and not customer days! lol I haven't caught up fully with the threads yet so I am unsure as to were you have drawn your conclusions from but again thanks

Yes I tottally agree we need more women to my knowledge and correct me if I am wrong we have 300 sites and 4 women running sites I am sure many a lass is stuck in kitchens but it would be good to see them on the feilds or just suporting. Yes being a female friendly site we have more than our fair share or girls. More importantly we have a growing number of younger (stop it you bunch of perves ) girls 12-14s getting intrested in the sport. It all helps and some of it will stick even if only 1% thats 1% more than what we have now.

TV I still have not seen it but I am very happy to say I got paint ball on tv and got them calling it a sport and to my knowledge only 1 bit was staged and that was only cause they missed the shot! I will not coment further as I said I have not seen it yet we were still no site / pub when it went out.

Great to be back

 

[Rachel Stormbird]

I'm at our (Me, Chuck and Andy from Team Redz) new site near Colchester in Essex, Paintball Extreme, nearly every Saturday/Sunday. If I'm not marshalling or running games there then I'm training with Team Redz or at a tournament with the Stormbirds. Talk about paintball 24/7!! All my holiday will be booked for millenium series tournaments this year (except skiing 'cos that's the other thing that gives me an adrenalin rush so I can't not do that) and most lunchtimes I'm on this forum!! Do I need help?

Oh and by the way, we have lovely toilets at the site too.

The Stormbirds are going to be getting... wait for it... clothes that are not XXL soon! Although like Liz says with your mask and pack and knee pads and elbow pads..... hardly gonna look sexy are we!

When we were in the States last summer after playing was finished we actually got to wear babe tops because unlike say Elsham it wasn't blowing a gale, raining and about -10. After playing here, if you don't get your 3 oversize sponsors fleeces on, you go down with hypothermia!

looking forward to the indoor, even now I've seen our division. eek!