Homemade Speedball Field (in progress)

[Reo5th]

You are so lucky to have that land Snakebite. That field is awesome. Me and AngryMan just finished our field - it has a tree house right about the 50. such a great spectator area. I'll take pictures monday so you guys can check it out.

[Sinnet]

how big is that field snakebite? looks pretty big... around 200 feet long?

also, do you have many problems with bunkers being knocked over or it being hard to get behind bunkers on the other team's 40?

[Jonno06]

lol,he didnt steal them,hes BARROWING them

i want my own PB field!!!!!!

[Blennidae]

OK, its official, I hate snakebite78 Man thats a nice personal setup.

Sinnet, the only suggestion I might have would be to mow the lawn. Grass looks pretty tall.

[Sinnet]

heh, it's actually not a lawn.... well, it's a long story, but i'll tell it


all the land we play on is behind a church in our town. It's owned by a really rich guy, who wanted to develop it. But, because parts of it are marshland, the EPA shut him down. So, because he can't do anything w/the land, he lets us use it for paintball purposes. It all used to be forest, but a lot of it was cut down, so what you see is weeds growing up out of pieces of wood that pretty much cover the whole place. But yeah, we plan to weedwhack it at some point.

[845]

X-mas trees do work awesome. Me and my friends made a whole fort out of them for paintball. It was bull dozed before we could play attack and defend though. You need to make a snake EVERYONE loves the snake. Just lay the orange cones on the side. If you need more just do drive by construction sites reach out the windows and pull em in. Most of the times the construction guys dont even care.:)

[Sinnet]

well, the orange cones are used for marking the corners...

they're about 1' tall, you'd hafta be a smurf to use them as a snake.

[HoppysMag]

well for my definition of exciting is balls flying over you head, always haing a place to go but having to dodge paint to get there... but im descriping this all from a rec stand point where nothing really matters as long as we have fun... but still i see where your coming from about not making it too easy for the back guys...

[pumpamatic]

Dang, I wish I could get some pics of the fields I've built. I'm with Rudy though, on the speedball field I've built, you crawl the snake and see a whole different world. There's so many blind angles, it's like I'll shoot out one man on the tape, and not seeing it, charge up field only to be suprised when someone pops out. It's great though, it makes it easy to move on those people who just shoot the whole game. Although front men are normally screwed and there's not a whole ton of teamwork going on, but I think that's just the people I play with. Still makes a great field and gives anybody on it a lot to work with.

[Snakebite78]

our fields have come a long way, that field is proboly around 225-275 feet long, and man it is nice. We just put up a sweet middle section and were working on hankin down some of the tall marsh grass right above the field in the pic. We jsut got 21 bails of stray adn were probobly gonna get 30-40 more soon. Were talkin about a snake or 2 adn some more bunkers. Wish you guys could be there, anyone who lives in ohio near akron, come on down. :) :)

[shartley]

Hmmmm Ever wonder if we send shivers down the spines of *organized* paintball fields?

I think it is great that so many are not only making their own fields, but making them as good as, if not BETTER than some of the paintball parks I have seen.

Good job guys and keep up the good work! After all, all you guys got me and Kim hyped up again to make ours.

[j.t.]

Sinnet, where in Maine do you live anyways? I live in the Scarborough/Portland area. Any chance that field your building is close by? Id be glad to help out

[Sinnet]

hey JT... we're in cape elizabeth... not far from you at all. we actually just finished building the field, and we're playing on it thursday if you want to come... pm me about it.


we finished the field off with 2 stand-ups and some more spools and played on it (2 on 2) for the first time yesterday... it's great!

by the way, i'm awaiting authorization for ICQ w/you

[ANTi]

dude...you kow what you need...those like large tubes that you can crwal through...those are awesome...you also have to have some kind of like hypernball spyder thing in the middle...cause those are really fun to use...a speedball course in the woods near me has one and its a lot of fun...they also took barrels cut them in half stuck those in the ground and used some of those as bunkers...

[Sinnet]

actually anti, a friend of mine's dad owns a plumbing/construction company, and he said he can get us some hyperball tubing for free