When is a newbie not a newbie anymore?

[Newbie505]

My son and I recently took up the sport of paintball and we still call ourselves newbies. That brought up the question, "...when does a newbie stop being a newbie?" We were just curious. we have both played less than a half dozen times, and still feel pretty raw out on those courses. I myself have never played a woods course, and my son has only played in the woods once. Otherwise, we are the guys who are usually outclassed on a speedball field. Thanks for you input.

[xmetal2001]

1)when you start calling other people newbies
2)when people start either
a)asking for you on their team
b)asking you how to do stuff

[Mango]

Originally posted by xmetal2001
1)when you start calling other people newbies
2)when people start either
a)asking for you on their team
b)asking you how to do stuff

haha well said. I noticed it when people started saying "omg that was YOU!!???!?" after i wailed on them with my good ol' VM-68!!! Those were the days.....Then I got my Minimag and I started screaming "MOOVE!!!!!!! NEWBIE!!!!!!!! OMG WHAT THE F**K ARE YOU DOOING!!!!!!!!" LOL!!!

[Expalien/XPM]

In my opinion, we are all newbies. Newbie is someone who is learning? Right? So I don't think there is one person out there who doesn't make mistakes, and never gets shot, and knows every single thing about the sport of paintball.

[Miscue]

You start getting shot out at the beginning of the game instead of the end. :) A newbie basically has no clue as to what's going on... once you get past this and have a general idea of what to do and stuff, then you're not a newbie anymore.

/me was never a newbie. :)

Killing my share since day one, game one.

[MantisMag]

well on my second day out i got asked all about stuff by newbies. obviously i'm still a newbie. i've only played three days. yet still i was answering questions about the mag, about my mask, about my pack, about other people's markers. maybe it's cause i was holding john/udtseal/sprayingmango's minimag and i was wearing a jt proteus and redz dimension pack. somehow everybody seemed to think i knew what i was doing. surprisingly enough i did answer a lot of those questions. maybe i'm not a newbie. maybe i just skipped the whole newbie stage. thanks john! haha.

[Miscue]

A seasoned player is less interested in other people's equipment... where newbies got that 'eyes wide open' look... "No, you can't touch my EMag - get your own."

[talls]

Well there is never a certain time to stop calling yourself a newbie. Because as I have witnessed we all have newbie relapses, but I guess I stopped calling myself one when I had been around the sport long enough to know what I did wrong, how to fix equipment, and different things like that. If you know the basics and can hold your own on the paintball field you are not a newbie, well at least to me anyway. Then again I never really call anybody a newbie because it just sounds to much like an insult to me.

[Miscue]

You can just look at somebody... observe their demeanor and tell if they're a newbie. See the fear in their eyes. :) People who've been playing have that 'look'... hehe.

Haha, UDTSeal made this pic:

[MantisMag]

HAHAHA! people shooters! ups is coming with my people shooter tomorrow. YAY! look for posts!

i know what you mean about the eyes wide open newbie look. it was so weird getting that look from kids when it was only my second time playing. it was REALLY weird explaining stuff to them. like what the hell am i doing? why is it that out of all the people here i'm explaining things to the newbies and receiving looks of awe and respect for my paintball knowledge?

[FatMan]

FatMan's rules of Newbies

You are not newbie when:

- You wear out your sticky grips.

- Your kid's first words are "Bam, you're gone!"

- Your wife tells you to "make a bunker move" when she's in the mood.

- You find a pack of twinkies you stashed in the back bunker, and the only reason no one else ate them is they KNEW they were yours.

- There's a worn spot in your favorite bunker exactly the same shape as
your butt.

- Someone tells you you have a leak in your power tube and it doesn't
piss you off.

- You have pet names for all of the bunkers at your local field.

- Everyone ELSE tells stories about how you got "lit up."

- You tell stories about extreme discomfort, severe pain, and total
embarrasment - and everyone laughs and says "that's hysterical, tell
another one!"

FatMan

[Clint3240]

your not a newbie when you beat me

[RoadDawg]

My classification of a newbie is when a starting out player makes simple mistakes and uses them as a learning experience. It is when they put what they learn into effect and just go with the flow. I still consider myself a somewhat newbie and I've been playing for 2 or 3 years now. I'm still learning and from time to time I do something really great that makes people go wow. Now I'm all about letting other newbies shoot my marker. Although I don't have a Emag or anything like that (micromag RT) I let them try it to see if I could help someone in a decision of a good marker. Like for me at this moment I'm yet to try an Emag. Why I don't just buy one of my own is cause I don't know if I'll like the feel of it. When I offered to try out an autococker the guy said no but when my friend with his Micro and 68 classic said yes I feel in love with the mag family. Who knows if the cocker guy had said yes maybe I'd have a autococker instead of my mag. Also you'll know when your no longer a newbie. You get this feeling that your a veteran. Maybe that was just my stomach saying "I'm hungry" I don't know.

[rifleman]

Your not a newbie the very SECOND that you buy an automag :)



Also when your gun is so pimped out that when you walk up to a crowd everyone stops talking and just glares at your gun----that cracks me up everytime





Oh, and what Miscue said... look at that guy in my sig, buahaha




Adam

[Top Secret]

Yeah, I love the stares I get when I go to the field with my E-Mag/Warp. I get lots of "Oh ****, I hope he's on our team." That's when you are no longer a newb. I love throwing off other vets by wearing newbie camo. I wear camo pants and a black t-shirt. Confuses the crap out of people and they don't know what to make of me.