So tell me when did you realize you were hooked and had become a paintballer?

[KCJones228]

I think I got everyone beat on the quickest to be hooked. My friends and I had ordered guns off the Net, my buddies all got theirs before mine came in. I got hooked WATCHING them play their first game, my gun came the week after and there's been no looking back since. That was 8 month's ago and I'm on my 4th and maybe final gun.

 

[Tom Tom]

Back around 10 years ago When I was a little boy, (well i ain't never been a little boy) i played at top gun, the old dissused hospital and loved it. It was the greatest day of paintball and I was hooked from the very first game......

I won't ever stop

 

[Richard Kirke (DUPS Rocket) UK]

hmmm

I think the process was a bit slower for me. Sometime after my second rec-day (first one using a semi) and up to the European Indoor thingy last year, we lost EVERY game, and came last over-all, one of the best w/es of my life

Still in one game I tagged 3 people, that felt pretty good. Though after my first mugging there was no going back

I can stop any time I like

Richard

 

[warped sports]

HOOKED

It was way back in may 1988 at combat for leisure site near wolver hampton and we played with spatmasters and 10 shot tubes /12 gram powerlets it was cool as , next day got phantom
pump and all the gear from the old midland paintball store in covenrty And the next week joined the tomcats 1 month later played at paintball petes my first comp, god i must be old. Any new players think about this 1.50 p for a 10 shot tube and then the co2 12 grams 60 p each my first tournament bill was 95.00
but by then i was hooked .

cheers Paul Parkes
Warped Sports

 

[Spyder_Dude_46360]

mine was deffently the first day cause i got to unload a case of paint on my homies????

 

[Penti UK]

My first time back in '88 Skirmish-Rushden.

A stag party of 18 guys against 8 of us and we drew the day overall. I just knew I'd found something I wanted to be part of, despite having done £100 and been shot in the knackers.

I have never looked back since then !!

Penti

 

[flameball]

i got in to it a cupple years ago and never played. then i started playin again and only renting. now tomarow im goin to order my first gun!

 

[SYTRAXZ]

mine

mine sorta came early, me and my friends were talking of playing paintball so i got a gun a BE talen ghost. they all wimped out so i shot at trees in the woods. then my friend got a spider sport and then i knew i had to buy a semi auto, went to a feild and check out the action then i knew i deffinatly had to get the semi auto i have now.

 

[flameball]

I got hooked on a camping trip with ppl i did not know.they had there own guns and asked there mom/dad if they could go then i asked my dad and i could it wasgreat fun.for about 3 year my parents would not let me get 1. then they said i could! it all started thanx to the nice ppl up in north jersey some where.

~Mat

Team Zero In

 

[Diggie]

Not too cocky to tell as well...

So come on big kids, post how you started out too!

Buddha 3 (still our best friend because he's Money) invited nearly half of our current roster to try it out one absolutely beautiful sunny day in the summer of 2000.
We were punters then. Wow, as I type this the memories are cropping up my throat.

You know the deal, Tippmann 98's (might as well carry a wet newspaper), überbaggy cammy overalls, and stinky Scott goggles with the opacity of black sandpaper.
I remember my man Cyrus involuntarily donning a bright red clown suit for our first ever game because he was about to get married. I can still see his big ol' Technicolor ass sticking out from behind a wooden shack and I popped my first ever hit on it. Absolute magic. No other words to describe it. It was magic and it was real. I shot someone and it was fun because he was alright. A few sundays later, bought my own kit and suddenly started acting like I owned the field and harass newbies.