Why do you play paintball?

[Carbon]

Why do you play paintball? simple question, need simple answers. At the risk of sounding all flowery and new age-ish, we all play... take the time and answer why please...

-in layman's terms, I like getting shot AT. I like shooting at people.

-The rush - duh!

[Auzzy]

Bottom line is it's fun. There are other benefits to playing but the reason I spend so much time and money on it is because it's something I love to do.

[Ov3rmind]

- The rush, there's no other sport like it.
- I love the gear (setting up my gun, upgrades, discussing guns with friends).

There's also just some inexplicable feeling I get when I play (besides the rush), I can't pinpoint it, but I know I love it. Whatever it is, it's doing a good job of keeping me addicted.

[reefer madness]

its an addiction.

[pbguy888]

The darn bug bit me. And I dunno it must have given me some wierd disease that wont let me stop playin :confused: :p :D

[ugabiged88]

I love to play and I love going onto AO.

Also, just upgrading your gun is very fun to do.

[Jonno06]

all of the above?

[xadamx]

most everybody that ive met in relation to paintball have been some of the nicest, most honest people ive met.

i love messing with my gear

the rush of adrenilline(sp!?) i get when playing

the comrodery of my teammates

the thrill of competition

the smack talk that goes on between my team and our rivals :D hehe

[sniper1rfa]

i dunno, because i can?

its just damned fun. :D

[Lopy-slopy]

It's so fun. There are no other sports like it. It takes cops and robers, my favorit game as a kid, to new heights. It is just so fun to make that run to a new bunker as shots ring out all around you. Nothing gets your heart pounding like a good run for the flag or bunkering someone.

[davidnj]

It's fun and it gives me and 4 close friends a weekend every month away from the women @@

[RT pRo AuToMaG]

I play paintball because I love the technology of the markers and upgrading them (even thought it drains my wallet) plus it's just too damn fun to stop! (yes, i'm addicted)

[Umbra Solis]

1. The ardenilin rush

2. The intensity

3. Keeps my senses razor sharp

4. Just messing around with my friends

5.the gear and such

the disadvanteges: my serios lack of $$$:p

[Hexis]

For me there is nothing like charging a large group in a big game like a crazy man and surviving. If I do get eliminated and break the line I'm almost as happy.

Just gotta love the suicide charge.

[BlkSprk]

Exercise

Anger Management (Nothin like shooting at people and no legel reprucusions)

Addicted at the first thought of the game

[_Spork_1]

i like the rush of being shot and hearing the whizzes go by me, and being shot

meh

[Blazingace]

2 reasons.

1. Working and tuning the guns are really fun. It is kind of a hobby by itself. Building a gun from the ground up and watching it cane people is a thrill that is unrivaled.

2. I like the competition. Owning people is a rush that very little compares to. Even getting shot up isn't that bad. AND YOU GET TO SHOT PEOPLE!!!!!!:D

[68magOwner]

I agree with Hexis, even thought im a noob, i love to charge into large groups firing faster than rambo himself, and if i survive, it makes for great talk off the feild, it has also earned me the respect of being the only brave noob to ever enter my local feild, the rest all hide the whole game just waiting for me to bunker them.:cool:

[*Exit><Wound*]

1. Fun

2. Exciting

3. Tinkering

4. Developing quick reflexes

5. Meet new people

6. My first time playing, I was 11 and walked into the rest area of my local field to find a so-called "tourney player". He had everything a spoiled teenager could get, JT jersey/pants, Angel fully upgraded. He saw me with my rental Tippman and cheap *** mask and laughed. We started, I got him out in less than a minute. So, 6 is shooting the over-confident!

[MaChu]

because i like burning holes in my pockets

[Carbon]

Ove3rmind, i know what you mean, there is an inexplicable component in "feeling the rush". I suppose its just the natural extension ou the human condition itself. Them endorphines.

Comaradery is another reason, after all we are pack "hunters". Not to sound all new age and flowery, but i consider myself an embassidor of/to paintball. And ill give any noob out there, to the best of my knowledge, the striaght dope on paintball info (thats why i dig AO).

oh yeah its also fun too!

[Big_Chops]

I play because it is a healthy addiction, unlike the drug addicts spend all their money on drugs i spend my money on my gun

[Big_Chops]

That was my first post ever!!

[The JOE]

I play for a number of reasons... among the ones I can think of currently is because I'm good at it.
That's the only reason I need. I play all positions fairly well (I'm a hardcore speedball player, by the way), and for the first time ever since I've tried doing things, I notice that I actually play better than other people... (Sounds trite, yes. But being a tall, skeleton of a person I can't exactly play sports that are more phyiscally demanding than paintball)

Plus I can't get enough of the adreniline rush. I've noticed, though, that it takes more and more crazy moves to get it... and harder and harder to pull of...

-and-
I'm loving every second of it.

[p8ntballsnowman]

Shooting people is the only reason i play.

[mag-hatter]

relieves stress. i like the fact that i can shoot my friends legaly...jk

i like it because it gives me a rush that doesnt involve some sort of drug ( i dont do drugs ne ways), and because it freaks me out thinking 20+ people are hunting me down with guns...hehehehe

[Hucklbry]

If you have ever played you don't need to ask. There is just such a wonderful feeling knowing you put someone out of the game, let alone when you have multiple people out. You don't have to be the state champ quarterback or be a track star in order to play well. Paintball can be played and enjoyed by everyone, and will be enjoyed (trust me).

[adam shannon]

rippin on people with my e-mag keeps me from ripping on people with my H&K. its strictly an anger management/prison avoidance thing for me.

[jayloo]

I'm addicted to the rush....I have actually tried to not so something pball related for 24hours and have failed. I need haelp:p

[puckmaster]

Do you know whats really hard? Trying to forget about paintball for 15 hours. I have once forgot about paintball for 2 or 3 days, because i was backpacking with friends and got completly lost.

I like paintball because.

[SlipknotX556]

I play for...

The Thrill

The Rush

[pookachu32]

cuz i suck at everthing else...

[Peach]

It's all about the guy next to you... And then shooting him when advances :D :D :D Advise: Only works on your friends.

[AFRaven]

1. The Thrill

2. The Rush

3. Chicks dig circular scars, looks like you got a smallpox vaccine :D

[chronic john]

for the rush for sure and meeting all the other ballers is a plus to ...

[raehl]

I play paintball so I don't get sick of organizing paintball. ;)

- Chris

[bryceeden]

It is something that I am very good at and enjoy doing. I also like upgrades(ULE body or ULE trigger first?).

[spacedtedybear]

I like hurting people. ;) Don't worry guys I'm just kidding. :D

[Recon by Fire]

I play for the welts :)