Father/ son painballing .. or any parent

[shartley]

I play paintball with my son, and my two oldest daughters (14, 16, 20), although the oldest does not play any more. I can tell that our youngest (3) will play when she gets older too. She loves everything paintball. It is her birthday today and she is tickled pink that she will be able to spend the morning around paintballers.

Heck, even my wife has played paintball (and may play again at some point), but now just target shoots.

[Ov3rmind]

Well, everyone in my family has tried paintball, but none of them have played more than once. I guess it's just not something they could get as into as myself, that and my dad threw out his back playing for his first time. Despite this, they still encourage me to play, but wish I would spend a lot less money. LOL, my dad thinks it's rediculous that I'm buying my third gun in 3 1/2 years of playing (2 1/2 years consistantly). Oh well, I'm glad I have parents that encourage my habits then ones who don't.

[aaron_mag]

Originally posted by adam shannon
...but if they dont clean their room, or do the chores you can take em out on sunday and light em up!

Its actually the exact opposite! If they don't clean their room/behave there is no way they make it out to the paintball field at all!!! You just take off without them and they are grounded . Never had to resort to this form of punishment but I guarantee that I wouldn't be in the mood to share the special parent/child paintball relationship with a kid that was chronically misbehaving.

[Blennidae]

My daughter has no interest in playing, but I was recently informed her boyfriend plays, so I may get a chance to shoot him. Maybe between the 2 of us we can convince her to try it out.

I do take my two nieces playing from time to time. One has her own gear, the other has a mask, but borrows my backup when we play. I usually prefer to play on opposite teams, to maximize the friendly smack talk.

[Prezents]

My children

I play and would have liked if my oldest daughter (11) would play. She did try and say's that she likes to play but is still not sure.
Then there is my youngest, that entered a youth young guns top gun at age 6
and 2 weeks ago went toe to toe with her mom and them 3 guys with angles, granted they did manage to get her out but it took them awhile ( I thought that I shoot alot of paint)
I now have a son that is 6 months and it looks like he is really looking at my minimag

[oldsoldier]

I'm 32, my dad is 58...he and his buddies go 2-3 times a year, and invite me to go as well. All of them arent particularly athletic, but they all do have physical jobs, that keep them in shape. They are all decent players too, but have no interest in speedball. Oh well, its fun nonetheless to shoot at relatives

[-=Squid=-]

I wish my stepdad would play with me, hes like a dad to me. He would be pretty good, but every once in a while I can talk him into playing some rec ball with me.

[Blazestorm]

I wish someone from my family besides my cousin would play... rawr... not even my brother who's going to be a freshmen at college has any interest in playing.

[ChuckWag78]

I'm 21 and my dad is 52. We have been playing together for like six years. One time he tore his ACL playing, four months later he was back out playing. He is not that quick anymore but he is a great back player

[einhander619]

I'm 20, my dad's 54, and he runs, snowboards, surfs, and plays paintball with me.

[magking1971]

As a counter to the "tuff guy" parent photo above I will now post this
My daughter LOVES to shoot my marker but has only played in a small "kids game" (we turned all the guns WAY down)
and had a blast ))

[LittlePaintballBoy]

my dad plays with me, at first he didnt want to play but i made him rent and he was hooked! you now can find him as aegis on the boards

[kevdupuis]

My stepson got me into playing. He gave me a Talon for christmas 4 years ago and we've been playing together since, (that is when he has the money to play).

I still have the Talon and it still works.

[TheJester]

my local feild and store is run by a father/son pair. the father is like 50 something, and i think the son is like 30

[JKW]

My 13 year old son and I (41) play and it has brought us even closer together. I try not to do anything paintball related without him along. Here he is with one of the most famous father and son combos in paintball!

Not sure about this, but I think taking him with me to the Chicago Open to hang out with the Assassins for 4 days might have moved ole Dad up a bit on the buddy scale