Deaf Paintball Players

[paintbattler]

i havent seen a deaf person before but i have also seen an one armed man. i have no idea why he had a forgrip though...

[Johnny_Reb]

Well I played against a team of deaf players today at a tournament in alabama.They made the finals! If Freaks of 03 sees this post, congrats on a job well done.

dansim: you get headaches too? wow and I thought i was teh only one.....

[Tunaman]

Well...I have played with a deaf guy(a few of them at the same time) down at Top Gun Paintball in NJ. Maybe this is the same guy that graycie is referring to. He is a great dude, and plays very well. The first time I played with him he was renting stuff, and the following year I met up with him again and he now has his own gear! Power to all you handicapped people! May the Force be with you all!

[jfreak]

At my field we have hosted a few days where an entire deaf group of about 50 came out to play. A few of them are very good and I see them on occasion playing at different fields. The only real disadvantage I see is that sometimes they take a hit on the tank/hopper/etc. and don't realize it because they never heard that distinctive sound.

[logamus]

Originally posted by Fred
I have a great deal of respect for people who go out and play (any sports) despite percieved physical limitations.

---Fred

imho when you are missing a limb, it is not a percieved physical limitation. it is a physical limitation. my hats off to anyone who can play with physical limitations, i have my hearing and both arms and i still suck.

[than205]

It's funny this thread popped up again almost a year later.
I played with Harvey (my deaf friend) last sunday in Boston. He's a great player. I never mentioned that he also shoots a Mag. I gotta convince him to get rid of the third reg though.....

Anyway, he usually gives me crap for getting shot out too early. (he's usually the last guy to get shot if we don't win)

[Automaggin2]

Originally posted by shartley

Shartley, hearing is def. a plus in paintballing. Thats why they are looked at as being special. People say when you loose one of your senses, your other ones make up for it.

[halB]

when im reffing and yelling at people to put in their barrel plug i swear all the paintball players are deaf

[Ultimator]

Yeah ... almost a year later this popped back up ... odd!

I still think Shartley blew it out of proportion though. I was just asking a simple question

[Demobilized]

Wow, in a local tournament today there was an all deaf team. They played very well even for not being able to communicate. This tournament was in Hunstville Alabama so i dunno if you might know any of the players. But one time one of the girls made the pull of the break and kept going and hung it! It was insane haha

**Edit Sorry Shartley but i gotta disagree with you. Not being able to communicate for me would be a horrible disadvantge and these people that can still play good and not be able to communicate effictively impress me a lot**

P.S. this tournament was the same as Johhny_Reb's

[Ultimator]

Originally posted by Demobilized
Wow, in a local tournament today there was an all deaf team. They played very well even for not being able to communicate. This tournament was in Hunstville Alabama so i dunno if you might know any of the players. But one time one of the girls made the pull of the break and kept going and hung it! It was insane haha

My brother plays in Huntsville sometimes .. and so does his friend.

[Demobilized]

Well maybe well played em haha

[BetaMax]

I am a what you call a Moderatly Deaf person. I lost about 40% of my hearing in both ears when I was 4. I am 28 now and having been wearing hearing aids.

The only issue that I have had while playing is hearing when my opponents call themselves hit or when my fellow teammates call for me. But doesn't that happen to most people in the heat of the battle? :)

The only thing I can say tho is that when I am out there playing, I have a better sense of what is going on around me since I am more visual to where everything is since I have a hard time figuring out where shots are being made from. I agree with Automaggin2 that with a loss of one of your senses, the others make up for it.

Just thought I would put in my 2 cents.

[shartley]

Originally posted by Demobilized
Wow, in a local tournament today there was an all deaf team. They played very well even for not being able to communicate. This tournament was in Hunstville Alabama so i dunno if you might know any of the players. But one time one of the girls made the pull of the break and kept going and hung it! It was insane haha

**Edit Sorry Shartley but i gotta disagree with you. Not being able to communicate for me would be a horrible disadvantge and these people that can still play good and not be able to communicate effictively impress me a lot**

P.S. this tournament was the same as Johhny_Reb's

Originally posted by BetaMax
I am a what you call a Moderatly Deaf person. I lost about 40% of my hearing in both ears when I was 4. I am 28 now and having been wearing hearing aids.

The only issue that I have had while playing is hearing when my opponents call themselves hit or when my fellow teammates call for me. But doesn't that happen to most people in the heat of the battle? :)

The only thing I can say tho is that when I am out there playing, I have a better sense of what is going on around me since I am more visual to where everything is since I have a hard time figuring out where shots are being made from. I agree with Automaggin2 that with a loss of one of your senses, the others make up for it.

Just thought I would put in my 2 cents.

[hostage]

I started reffing at a place called Compete and about 10 deaf guys showed up. (I go to RIT and Rochester and RIT has a large def community and RIT has a National Technical Instutite for the Deaf.)

Well many showed up and they couldn't tell sometimes when they got hit. I felt sorry cause they would just walk into a stream of paint, since they couldn't hear themselves getting shot at. Well it was really funny in a "hotel" game where this one kid kept on talking to them. I kept on telling the kid, they were deaf, and he kept talking to them. Well with their handycap they seemed to do as good as any other newby player.
-Doron