Paintball and Nonunderstanding Parents

[mountaindud]

insurance records show that paintball has less injuries than golf and tennis

[Tony Arrivo]

I know it's long but please read

i agree, i think every kid should be able to play paintball. My theory is that if a kid grows till he's well, no longer a kid and never even so much as plays half life or doom, or even can participate in squirt gun fights (I know a kid that can do none of these) he will just have more motivation to buy a gun and go shoot up a postal office or something. A kid who goes out and paintballs would never feel that he would need a gun. I mean how much fun is it to go out and shoot.. oh excuse me.. "mark" up your friends with paintball guns. It's a blast! And if some grumpy old parent won't let him play it's a shame..

[BTAutoMag]

yea my mom would not even let me near a gun toy or not for my whole life until i was 10 at which point she got me and my stepdad identical supersoakers and nerf ball guns. we had the time of our lives with those and nerf ball guns are close to paintball and thats probably my first time ever "shooting" at someone. i have a good nature, so good in fact i refuse to kill rats when they get in our house. i hate hurting things but in paintball it does hurt, but not much or for long. paintball has been marked as a war game for too long. people say that all paintball does is teach you to kill people and that is far from the truth. paintball teaches you good sportsmanship and the only thing it teaches about guns is GUN SAFTEY. paintball needs to get publicised as a safe extreem sport not a war game.

[FooTemps]

Maybe we should make a paintball "truth" commercial...

[BTAutoMag]

Truth: they put rat poisin in paintball gell

[Tony Arrivo]

Truth: Every saturday 20 newbies are lit up by the Radical Racoon Bandits.. mwahahahahaha

[gimp]

Just tell your parents that your going out drinking and doing drugs. Then when you say your going to play paintball, they'll be like, whew. He's not gonna die.

[FatMan]

Parents and Paintball

Guys,

If you want info on parents and paintball I suggest you check out Action Pursuit Games magazine. They cater to younger, newer players; they have regular articles about young players and parents and paintball; and they are extremely paintball image concious. Look at some back issues and you'll find some good material.

That said, there are some people who you can say or do ANYTHING and they will NEVER change their minds about paintball. To them, the image of people shooting guns at each other produces an emotional response that simply shuts off their rational mind. Its almost religion. You can make the most sense in the world and they will simply choose to ignore it.

If your parents ALLOW you to play, but don't support it, then play as you can. If they won't allow you to play and they are in that group of "never to be convinced" then it's time to find another pass-time. I'm sorry, but until you are self established that might be the only way.

Personnally, I think many parents CAN be convinced. One of the best ways is if another parent who is involved in the sport can talk to them. Of course it has to be a parent they can respect. Try the rational arguments. Take 'em out to a field and explain what's going on. Show 'em a video of Hyperball or Sup' Air Ball or one of the newer promotional vids that emphasizes the "sport." If that doesn't work you may be banging your head into a brick wall!

Of course YOUR attitude during this process is ALL important (as I've mentioned before). If you're like "SEE!!! I TOLD you it's not like war. What do you MEAN you still don't think so! Jeeeze! Can't you even understand what I'm saying ..." you are not going to get very far, even if your parents *might* be swayed. You have to understand THEM and their worries and then show them you are a responsible kid.

Anyway, good luck and ...

Play safe and have fun,

FatMan

[Jonno06]

ags own you...LOL

field fee-10$.......case of paint-70$.........2 air fills-10$.........lighting up newbies and bunkering jerks-priceless....lol

[TigerMan]

Another good thing I think is by word of mouth, possibly by finding someone who is either a coworker/friend of the parents, and find if they play paintball or one of their children play (only do this though if you know they have something good to say). It helps parents and eases them into the idea seeing others doing it (helped with me).