School paintball team?

[FalconGuy016]

I like your atv

[magsRus]

Behind my school we have a Track, football field, 4 tennis courts, 3 soccer fields, a lacrosse field, and a sup air field

[agdemagman69]

BS, where did you get the funds for a sup air field?

[drx975]

I am

I'm starting a paintball club this year at my school, (St Joe's Prep in philly) and hopefully they will let my friend and I go through with this. Last year there was and still is an "outdoors" club and they did paintball, but only once a year. A school advisor was not required because it was not a "school sponsored" club. So hopefully, I will just need to talk with a few people and get an announcement in the morning and afternoon anouncements.

I'll let you all know how it goes, it should introduce paintball to quite a few of my sophmore friends, and many other freshman, juniors and possibly even seniors.

[magsRus]

hence the wink face at the end of my paragraph..here i will do it again for the slow people as in just kidding

[paint_suey]

well when you ask for a paintball team describe it as shooting small, plastic, projectiles from paintball markers (NOT GUNS!). Also describe the safety involved when submitting a petition or form. dont use gun in the description and when people are trying out tell them not to either.

[RexTheKing]

Ya, my school has a paintball club, its called 'weekend warriors' and we even have a tourney team .

[mag_pbg]

I tried at my school, and my super intendent said it wouldn't happen since it is a "liabilty" risk becuase we used to have skeet shooting too, but it was canned.

[FalconGuy016]

liability?? What does that mean exactly with paintball?

[mag_pbg]

well not liabilty, but you know what I mean it is a insurence risk, plus the perents prob. would jump down the super intendents throat if he approad it.

[Skoad]

If you want a paintball club do some research. you will find that there are more injuries in bowling, track, golf, tennis, and other sports than in paintball.

Present your club idea professionally and hopefully they will see the light

[FalconGuy016]

I saw a list of statistics on sports injuries. The highest was lacrosse, with something around 225 out of 1000 players injured a year, and paintball was the LOWEST, with something like .37 out of 1000 a year

Is there any insurance in paintball? Just make them sign a waiver... The only way to get hurt really is if you fall or something or you arent doing the basic saftey rules (mask on stuff like that)

[hitech]

Try reading this:

http://www.college-paintball.com/hs/

Good luck.

[raehl]

No, no, no..

Never bring up paintballs, projectiles, injuries, markers, or anything else paintball related when you try to start a paintball club at school unless the school forces you to.

You are starting a club, and you will do it the same way anyone else would start a club. One should ask "What do I need to do to start a club?", *NOT* "What do I need to do to start a PAINTBALL club?" If you act like there should be something special involved in starting a paintball club, your school just might believe you.

Honestly, I think a lot of kids trying to start clubs cause most of the problems they face by going to their school officials and saying stuff like "We want to start a paintball club, and don't worry,it's totally safe, and we'll never bring the guns to school, and there are very few injuries..." etc. Even a school official who didn't think paintball was a big deal before you came into their office is going to wonder why YOU think all those things are such a big deal.


Find out what the process is to start a club and do it. Don't make something special out of it.


Now, if you approach it like it's no big deal, fill out the paperwork, etc, and then some school official says "Hey, wait a minute, paintball?" ... THEN you're going to have to be read y to throw all the information you can at them. As some others already mentiond, www.high-school-paintball.com should have plenty to get you started.


- Chris