Why we play paintball...

[Dayspring]

I found this on another forum and read it. And I agree wholeheartedly.


"It happens on a random Monday, coming back from an event. Or late on a Sunday night, right before you get on the plane and you’re about to be frisked for the third time. You’re driving, you’re flying, you’re sitting in an airport seat with boys from the team. You’re drinking stale coffee, trying to stay awake. You’re explaining the fat welt on the side of your neck to a confused stranger or a best friend, or running through the sidewalks of LAX, trying to catch a plane. You’re coming back to the other life… the one without paintball, where no one understands why you do it. You’re tired, you’re working off little sleep, the question creeps up and you try to ignore it. Why do I do this? Why the travel, why the losses, the missed work, the missed school, hours of practice, and the complaining girlfriend/boyfriend? Because the lure of living a paintball life is just too potent. And the products of the road, the travel, are memories forever, and trips, and strange lands with stranger people, At tournaments it feels like, for once, you actually get to live as loud as you want. It’s worth the sacrifices. it’s worth all the BS. Because if you work hard enough, a Sunday will roll around, and you’ll be in the huddle, screaming, with your hand in, one among ten, playing for the world title, and suddenly all those clichés you ever heard make sense. And you are defined. You say it to yourself and it means everything. I am a paintball player. And this moment right here, is my life."

-Matt Marshall, SC Ironmen

[JEDI]

That is the begining to the Sunday Drivers DVD. It gives me chills just hearing it. You gotta see the actual scene.

[dre1919]

Wow, that's niiiice. :D

[Quiet]

Sweat, and I agree, so very true to life.

I remember one conversation I had while waiting for a plane years ago.
After you die if you are forced to make a record of your life. All of those days at the office or school, any of those boring events that take up so much of our lives will be summed up in a sentance or two. The exciting times like paintball, travelling and having new experiences will expand to consume the whole of the record. We identify ourselves not so much by what we do on a regular basis, but what we are passionate about.

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[fyse0]

i paintball for the adrenaline rush. Fear, anticipation, anxiety, and a sense of power or accomplishment all in one.. thats where the fun in paintball is for me

[jayel579]

has anyone one here seen the movie 'fight club'? and remember the scene when ed norton says something to the effect of, when i go back to work on monday all i can do is think about the next fight saturday?

thats how i relate to paintball, get home clean my stuff, and all i do in class monday it think about playing the next weekend

[automag_20]

When i try to sleep at night after a day of paintballing all I see in my mind is a replay of everything i did that day Paintballing playing over and over in my mind until i look up at the clock and realize it is 4 in the morning and i still cant fall asleep and i just wait for saturday and sunday to come along so i can do it all over again.

[jah871]

yah that is so true. that was prolly the best begining for a paintball movie. i just got my sunday drivers DVD but its messed up so i have to send it back.:(