EXTREME Paintball!!!

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Statistically you are more likely to get injured in a game of basketball than you are paintball.

The extreme part is just because it's uncommon. If in the 1950s kids ran out in the streets playing paintball with sling shots and bathbeads instead of baseball with a stick and a rock it wouldn't be so out there.

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If in the 1950s kids ran out in the streets playing paintball with sling shots and bathbeads instead of baseball with a stick and a rock it wouldn't be so out there.

Lol I know at least a portion of the kids back in the 50's had an actual baseball or ball of some sort... but I'm not sure if they had them bathbeads back then. I dunno I'll ask my dad tomorrow when I see him.

The extreme part is just because it's uncommon.

Highly agree with ya there, paintball is like nothing else, and that's why we all love it in one form or another.

To me the categorization of paintball as an xtreeeeme sport doesn't really change anything. There's really no way to compare pb to any of the xtreme sports. When I think of what is an xtreme sport the first criterium that comes to mind is whether or not it's an individually based sport. Can't really name many xtreme sports that are team sports. Yes, some events are with a pair of athletes like skydiving/skysurfing (the camera guy). Still there's more emphasis on the individual there. I guess since Rally is now an event that'd be a tandem sport too but dangit it's motorsport first and foremost. I wish paintball were televised more... but I'm not sure how I'd react if it was part of the "X-Games," is it this year?