How does you guys convince your female friends to play?

[Patron God of Pirates]

I make fun of them until they want to shoot me, then I offer them the opportunity!

[FooTemps]

Hmmmm... I got a lot of of my girl friends to go. It's easy, just ask them. Well, I always get them to ask but then I forget to give them directions, times, and prices so everything always gets screwed up and they yell at me when I get back home. lol

[vineas]

I just bought my wife a bushy, we went to a big game, and now she's on an all-girls team. She even plays more than I do now.

Main thing is just to ask nicely, don't badger, and if she actually wants to play she'll play. If she doesn't want to, leave it at that and be done with it.

A good way to start is to ask around at local fields and see if they have a ladies day or something. A field around here is having one this weekend sponsored by my wife's team that girls play for free (including pump gun rental, field fee, paint ... everything). It's a huge incentive when they know they won't be the only girl out there, and the free really helped too.

[HyperSnyper]

You can always do what my brother did to me...

(even though Im a guy)

just leave a box with paintball stuff in the middle of the playing field with a note inside saying "PUT MASK ON"

I remeber when my brother did that to me, he asked me to bring in a box full of "garden trash" to the front yard for throw away. Instead of finding dead shrubbery and broken branches, I found a Spyder and a Scott Mask with a note taped on the lens "PUT MASK ON"

I was wondering like "WT*" then all of a sudden shots started raining by my feet, the the note on the mask was pretty much self explanatory, I grabbed the gun and next thing you know we're playing "GIJoe in the backyard.

Well... thats the way you do it if you want her to dump you. If you wanna still keep her, then maybe inviting some paintball friends that she really knows will really help her get in her comfort zone.

I asked my GF to play with me and some of the boys in a renegade game, it ended up being a nice 5v5 in the woods. She played every single game, and now kinda likes the game.

The trippy thing is that I gave her a Piranha EXT PRO with mechnical el cheapo trigger, she can rip that triger just as fast as I can on my Mag. ???? Damn.

-Hyper

[Kevmag]

I agree with hitech. Get her to bring a friend or two. Also make sure you can equip her properly (sounds like you're doing this).

When my wife agreed to go paintballing with me, I bought her a marker (Retro Mag) and made sure she could shoot it. (I don't think the marker needs to be high end, just reliable and sized approp for her). I let her use my mask as it fit her better. Finally I got her a chest protector (borrowed from my bro, not sure why he has one of these...).

She had a great time. We played on a private field with friends of mine who were all very cool to her. Many of the guys mentioned they would try to bring their girlfriends/wives. She plans on going again.

[kosmo]

One of my friends was asking to go play paintball with me, and she seemed real interested. So now I've been trying to get her to play for a month and she keeps backing out. She did the same thing with skydiving, but she never told me she was deathly afraid of heights, she just kept making excuses. Ive tried damn near everything short of synreals tazer and handcuffs suggestion, including but not limited to:

Getting a small group of girls to go
I offered to let her wear my hockey chest protector
I try to shame them into it and tell them "dont be a girl" if they think it will hurt
i just ask them...
I make fun of them until they want to shoot me, then I offer them the opportunity!
just to ask nicely, don't badger
If she doesn't want to, leave it at that and be done with it (she started asking me again when we were going to play)
i can get her in for free, plus she is using my friends gun. On top of all that she is using some of my paint also
inviting some paintball friends that she really knows will really help her get in her comfort zone.

She is driving me insane, and this threads ideas haven't worked. Girls...

[Kevmag]

Originally posted by vineas
She even plays more than I do now.

Now that's just sad... I wanted my wife to play paintball with me so that I could play more. Not sure what I'd do if she went without me...