This is what I am talking about

[Devrij]

Let me give you one of my old suggestions, it will generate you some cash for team funds and also help paintball!

1, Find yourself a local site and do a small commission deal on players you take to the site.
2, Every one of your team members try and get ten people (workmates and friends) to try paintball.
3, You take them to your local site and maybe even help marshal the day for some extra cash.
4, Try and do that half a dozen times a year. its good for you, its good for your team, it's good for the site, it's good for the first timers and its bloody great for paintball.
If half the teams did that just once a year we would have thousands of new players who already know how to progress to another level if they want.

I like that ^^^ it's practical. We try to get people in as a uni society, but is there anything else that paintballers can do as individuals to help UK paintball? For instance, is there any body or council that we can petition with irritatingly polite letters? I'm pretty ignorant of the politics of paintball, but I'd like to help in any small way I can and I'm sure my team mates would feel the same. If the future of UK paintball is in our hands then what can we do? For the guy on the ground it makes me feel pretty impotent listening to how leagues/series/etc need to change, so I thought I'd ask what the average joe can do. (if this was inappropriate please delete it mods)

 

[TheGurkha]

You need to shut up! Or bring some decent comments to a discussion!

Thank you!

nothing has changed in the 4 years i have been playing competitively. apart from it seems more expensive for some reason. so what i said is true. and great use of the exclamation mark, by the way. do you drink a lot of coffee?

edit; Getting more people into paintball is a great idea, hell, i work for a big paintball site, myself, and also help promote said site... but how many customers (punters, if you must call em that) actually 'GET' into playing tournie ball(of either format)? id probably say 1 out of 2000? maybe more? it gets the attention out there, yeah, especially if your site has a SupAir fields, that customers can try out, but, if anything, at our site, there have been fewer and fewer people going out and getting their own kit to come back and play. compared to two-three years ago.