sky one paintball

[jonhaley]

I totally agree with the majority of this thread.

One point however: You simply won't get the TV shows featuring paintball if the actors are not allowed to lift their goggles during play. The reason is, as any marshal will know, everyone looks the same in overalls and JTs!

So.... in exchange for more coverage and paintball being shown in a good light: no blindings, spinal injuries etc, I think we should accept the odd inaccuracy and let it slide if we are shown players lifting goggles when they are not firing their markers and not being fired at.

Remember, the majority of the public don't know what its like to play and don't appreciate the glaring mistakes that we see all of the time. So providing paintball is shown in a good light and they see people having fun, they might be tempted to try it.

Finally, yes paintball gets it bad...but so do loads of other sports. I'm a diving instructor..most weeks I see some idiot on TV going diving with his 'oxygen tanks', and drowning, getting attacked by sharks or getting 'the bends'. The same thing applies.

 

[Julesbloke]

Although not realistic, for the sake of "drama" you're gonna have to put up with the mask lifting in a programs such as this. Unless they all wear those big clear full face things a la Crossfire (Channel 4)

I wouldn't get too hung up on that having a big influence on they way punters will behave. Everytime I've been on a rec ball day at a site and listened to a saftey talk, not lifting the goggles is ALWAYS the main part of the briefing. In all honesty, there has to be something wrong with anyone who doesn't get the message during the saftey talk - they should take up laser tag for their own safety

 

[ices]

To make sure they dont lift up that mask, they should know what it feels like to get shot in the ass or nads.

The reason being is that the ball in the face experience will be far more painfull.
Thus making them learn their lesson before they are injured .

trouble will be just gettin em all lined up and shootin em

 

[nutz]

hse

masks for site operators has always been the main issue, when we do our safety brief we always show the power of the marker by shooting thru a paintball box with a metal plate behind it, this basic simple demonstration ramms it home just how powerfull the marker are, and tell them the speed the ball is travelling in excess of 200 mph, adults generally violate with masks in low risk situations like walking to the dead zone, but kids are another issue, taking the mask off invouleterally after being shot, looking down the barrel to see if the gun is loaded etc, these people we ban as soon as a high risk violation has occured, so basically have good staff, media has always portrade paintball as a dangerouse gripped type sport, yes these injuries do happen and granted they should portray how paintball is actually played, run by sites who have qualified staff which most do, and also the pro element team players generally are involved with local sites.
inuries are generally sprained ankles (crap foot wear) or bruses from point blanking, but at end of the day any publicity weather good or bad we need it, maybe bully should write to these people to offer technical support to how paintball is actually played, here endeth the rant from me

 

[RON]

they were fully supervised none of the guns had gas or paint in. but they have to lift there goggles if they are going to film otherwise it wont make any sense.

i know a lot of ppl think it puts paintball in a bad light, its a catch 22 situation. either paintball does not get the publicity it wants or it has settle for things like dream team which, although i have not seen it on telly, i did watch them film it and there was nothing that i saw that would do paintball any harm. we do a lot of tv on site and as or yet nothing we have done ( or let anything happen to put paintball in a bad light). we are in the industry so its in our best intrest to premote paintball rather than to wrongly portray it.

if tv pays actors large fees they want there faces shown as in away those actors are a sort of brand name in a visual sense for that show.

the actors and ppl on set were more concerned about safty then any paintball player ive ever met, not needing to be told once to put there goggles on when we actually shot with paint for one scene all taking safty really sirously.

i only hope that the program did premote paintball and nothing to harm it.

 

[RON]

i had not read any of this thread b4 i replied as i wrote it for the same topic on another thread.

we did not know about any injury i am 100% that was not in the script when they filmed it, as 1, it was not in the script we saw and, 2 no one was acting in any pain when they shot the only scence i can guess soneone got injured in. (the actors did not act look like they were showing any signs of being injured or what could later be intrupreted as an injury). the story line was all about two mates after one girl.

 

[Swiss]

Has anyone actually seen Dream Team??

It is absoloutly Crap (literally)

It has some of the worst acting in the world in it and the only sort of people that watch it are football finatics.
To be fair I think whoever watches the episode will realise (hopefully) how dangerous paintballing can be, and they might think twice before lifting goggles up etc. when they're playing paintball. It's a delicate situation- for the better or for the worse, but as I said the program is probably watched by about 0.001% of the population anyway, and a lot of them won't even think twice about it....

 

[FUBAR]

Originally posted by Swiss
but as I said the program is probably watched by about 0.001% of the population anyway,

I agree. good point

 

[Davo]

Dream Team

I agree to, but some of the birds on there are worth a rattle with my 10" Boomy.

 

[€gg]

This is happening at Bristol SKY sports arena isn't it? Who's goin. Who's goin from London or further, how much is it costing you, what time does it start?
HELP PEOPLE