Your favorite indoor field?

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  • Redbeard the Pirate
    Grand Poobah
    • Mar 2008
    • 280

    #1

    Your favorite indoor field?

    Just brainstorming for the future (someday when I'm more successful I want to open a field), we have and indoor/outdoor field here locally, but I have some major problems with how things are run.

    Anyway, I'd like input on the playing field itself. At first I wanted to design it to look like a construction yard, but I was having a difficult time making the field balanced, while making it look like your average construction yard.

    Post your input, what does your dream indoor field look like? Pics of your ideas if you have them would be awesome! Googling "indoor paintball fields"
    is just giving me a bunch of speedball fields (which I also want to have, but I want something scenario-able as well)

    As a side note, I think a really good way to do the floors would be to do an elevated porous rubber flooring on the indoor field, then during the off times of the field I could just turn on a sprinkler system to clean the field I'm sure the drainage system would need some big ole filters, but can you think of any problems with that system?
  • mtaylor
    EP Magger
    • Feb 2008
    • 87

    #2
    From what I can see, the best floor to have is astroturf on top of cement.

    That way, you can slide on it, it's grippy enough not to fall, and easy to clean. Your biggest issue with cleaning is unbroken paint and shell, not fill.

    I believe Sup'Air makes some scenario style bunkers.

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    • Pump Scout
      Aging gracefully
      • Jun 2003
      • 141

      #3
      The field at Stinger Paintball/Ke-West Sports in Kewaskum, WI is the best I've ever seen. It's a turf that seems to be on a pad of some sort. The facility is big enough to run NPPL-sized fields regulation sized, oversized for a regulation X-Ball field, or enough to be split down the middle and run a couple 3-v-3 games at a time. The turf itself is soft enough to seem like grass, and the pad is enough that I didn't bother wearing my usual "protect the old-man knees" kneepads while playing there. Not sure what they do for overall cleaning up of the field, but I know a TON of balls simply soft-landed and were shuffled to the rear of the playing area.

      Ben Kohnen, Limited Pump Paintball
      www.geocities.com/limitedpump

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