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There are similar discussions
going on in just about every sport in the world.
(well ok maybe not all of them)
Cricket, when is rubbing the ball on your leg 'tempering' and when is it 'polishing'. (or attackingit with a beer bottle top for that matter)
Football, when is 'diving' a blatant attempt to get an opposition player sent off and when is it a reaction to a crunching tackle.
Etc etc.
Now here I am making the distinction between your 'baller who gets tapped on the goggles/hopper/marker and cleans it off and those who, as kidzero highlighted, use a slide or similar entrance to a bunker (or other move) to remove a hit.
So in the same vein as above,
Paintball, when is sliding into a bunker a blatant attempt to clean off a hit and when is it a reasonable way to enter a bunker?
Ok you get tagged and you wipe it off, foul play.
You get hit by a ball on the run you finish the run and check yourself with a marshall in tow. If you have cleaned the hit off by sliding in, is that foul play?
Gamesmanship is a word often associated with similar discussions in other sports, but that infers that you are doing it in the knowledge that the rules may bend for you.
In the case of paintball, you simply cannot stop and check yourself to see if it's a legal hit or a bounce.
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Chimp
going on in just about every sport in the world.
(well ok maybe not all of them)
Cricket, when is rubbing the ball on your leg 'tempering' and when is it 'polishing'. (or attackingit with a beer bottle top for that matter)
Football, when is 'diving' a blatant attempt to get an opposition player sent off and when is it a reaction to a crunching tackle.
Etc etc.
Now here I am making the distinction between your 'baller who gets tapped on the goggles/hopper/marker and cleans it off and those who, as kidzero highlighted, use a slide or similar entrance to a bunker (or other move) to remove a hit.
So in the same vein as above,
Paintball, when is sliding into a bunker a blatant attempt to clean off a hit and when is it a reasonable way to enter a bunker?
Ok you get tagged and you wipe it off, foul play.
You get hit by a ball on the run you finish the run and check yourself with a marshall in tow. If you have cleaned the hit off by sliding in, is that foul play?
Gamesmanship is a word often associated with similar discussions in other sports, but that infers that you are doing it in the knowledge that the rules may bend for you.
In the case of paintball, you simply cannot stop and check yourself to see if it's a legal hit or a bounce.
These and other random thoughts brought to you by the keyboard of the
Chimp
you are speaking my heart out. i have to work on my english, seems i couldn't get the right words together 
Obviously you can't check yourself during a run to the fifty, and if you slide in and the paint wipes during that process you can't be expected to just pull yourself out. But i'm talking about the real cheaters out there who blatenley wipe a welt once they are already established in their bunker, are not running and with the judges not facing them. THESE ARE THE PEOPLE who give our sport a bad name.
mugged44
mugged44
I don't think
That anyone is against that thought m8, I'm with you.
Not only does it give the sport a bad name but it means you don't have to improve your game to play at the next level if you can survive and prosper by cheating.
Just thought I'd have a mini rant about an interesting point KZ raised. Sorry to get away from the thread issue.
Yeah they really F*** me off too!
(although in their defense if they are punters trying to get value for money I can see where they are coming from......ish)
Chimp
That anyone is against that thought m8, I'm with you.
Not only does it give the sport a bad name but it means you don't have to improve your game to play at the next level if you can survive and prosper by cheating.
Just thought I'd have a mini rant about an interesting point KZ raised. Sorry to get away from the thread issue.
Yeah they really F*** me off too!
(although in their defense if they are punters trying to get value for money I can see where they are coming from......ish)
Chimp
Good at least your with me!
I'm now going to go and sit on my window sill, suck my thumb and sulk for the rest of the day.
(only joking)
It was good having this debate, I got a lot of points off my chest.....
until next time............
mugged44
I'm now going to go and sit on my window sill, suck my thumb and sulk for the rest of the day.
(only joking)
It was good having this debate, I got a lot of points off my chest.....
until next time............
mugged44