Originally posted by styles mugger
Rite people the dreaded question to sum people.
Wot/how/when/why do u decide when finally call it a day with the team u feel that u sud decide to call it quits with the team u love&hate especailly when ur equally feel being torn apart&feel rite with it all.
Wahh you wanna try that in English?
If I've worked my way though that OK and we are speaking hypothetically
then I'll share that I've split with 2 teams in my time.
My first team I quit because things weren't working for me. I felt we had a few players who weren't pulling their weight, didn't turn up for tourneys, didn't like shooting paint 'cause it pushed the bill up. At the time my 2 best mates were on the team, one was the captain, we all had a meeting, I expressed my views and got f&*£$d off by the rest of them, (bit of team politics, especially as I wasn't the only one with the views). At that point I had a long think about it and realised I wasn't enjoying playing paintball with these guys so I quit, told them what I was doing and why and we went our separate ways, basically amicably, cost me a friendship but it kept me sane.
The second time I quit a team, I quit paintball for 6 years, (along with 2 other players from the same team). We all came back from the World Cup in '95 and partly playing in soggy Brum was a bit of a comedown and partly because our captain had forgotten that we played at least a little bit for fun and was always on our backs I'd had enough. Playing every weekend or every other weekend, plus marshalling, for a year or so just made me lose my taste for the game, the final nail in the coffin was the fact that I hated playing with the team I was on, politics, whinging and the rest of the crap that goes with a team made me get up and go.
Not difficult decisions either of them, down to my sanity or staying on a team. Call me selfish for this but for me the upshot of this baring of my paintball soul is; if it ain't working for you don't stick with it, you'll only start hating the game.
It took me about 2 minutes into my first game for 6 years to make me realise how much I missed the sport. As one of my mates put it half way through the afternoon of that first days play, "why did we let that W£&*!r stop us playing?"
My opinion? you don't want to get there, there's got to be other teams to play for if it's that bad.
Thinking about it, didn't Justin Owen write an article on something like this in PGI a couple of months ago?
