speedball --- dont like it

[iownamag]

I think that people (yes, like you) who don't think of paintball as a sport are blocking is progress. Considering that paintball (in speedball form) is being played in stadiums and broadcast on more and more tv stations now not only is it a sport, but obviously the majority of the people think so. And is spraying and praying really any worse than hiding and preying? IMO atleast speedballers have the balls to duke it out with someone and not just snipe them from a bush.

[ntn4502]

Originally posted by Paintchucker

And btw NTN4502, by your own description you are also "some hick who likes to play with toy guns". You just choose not to do it in the woods...

You must have missed the sarcasim, believe you me I know the roots of the sport, but Im one to choose the title of extreme sport over fake military combat. Its just personal prefrence....but I for one like to change the gerneral public's conception of the sport

[iownamag]

Originally posted by ntn4502


...but Im one to choose the title of extreme sport over fake military combat...

well put man... well put. key words: "sport" vs. "fake" "combat"

[Zimbo]

Originally posted by iownamag
IMO atleast speedballers have the balls to duke it out with someone and not just snipe them from a bush.

Well sure if you put it that way atleast we dont have to spray and pray in order to get someone out. atleast we have less arrogant punk kids atleast when we get out we dont get all pissed and start swearing atleast we use accuracy by accuracy and not accuracy by volume. Atleast we know how to wait and use the element of surprise instead banging away with your chromed out machine gun. Atleast we will end up with more money because we dont need to Trick Out! our machine gun. Atleast we have patience. atleast thats what i think

Originally posted by iownamag
I think that people (yes, like you) who don't think of paintball as a sport are blocking is progress.

Sport = Activity created for the sole purpose of competition. Paintball was originally a way of marking cows. Skiing was originally a form of transpornation track and field is mainly just running. Swimming was a mode of transportation Baseball was created for sport, same goes for rugby soccer football. Im not completely sure about Hockey. I tihnk the word you were looking for is Competition.

[BuNkErEd89]

i find it so funny how u woodsball people are all saying how woods is the root of the sport and how it was originally played and all that other crap. well then i guess u think football players should still play with thin leather helmets like they used to back in the day? or hockey players not wearing masks at all? heck i guess all sports are bad according to you all since they technically are not played how they used to be played. accept change and stop whining about flashy guns and money and how kids get guns from their parents. becuz u know damn well u would like it if u parents would have bought u an angel. u need to stop hating on other people and what other people do and worry about your OWN self. and as for speedball being luck and like checkers and spray and pray? dude all i have to say i guarantee ill kill u in my "spray and pray game." oh and i guess stock class players who play speedball spray and pray to right? if u like being all camoed up and acting out military tactics, then go join the army or something mr. commando.

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this is not meant for the people who play woods and arent babies. this is intended for the ignorant *******s.
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[Zimbo]

Originally posted by BuNkErEd89
i find it so funny how u woodsball people are all saying how woods is the root of the sport and how it was originally played and all that other crap. well then i guess u think football players should still play with thin leather helmets like they used to back in the day? or hockey players not wearing masks at all? heck i guess all sports are bad according to you all since they technically are not played how they used to be played. accept change and stop whining about flashy guns and money and how kids get guns from their parents. becuz u know damn well u would like it if u parents would have bought u an angel. u need to stop hating on other people and what other people do and worry about your OWN self. and as for speedball being luck and like checkers and spray and pray? dude all i have to say i guarantee ill kill u in my "spray and pray game." oh and i guess stock class players who play speedball spray and pray to right? if u like being all camoed up and acting out military tactics, then go join the army or something mr. commando.

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this is not meant for the people who play woods and dont diss speedball
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spoken like a true 14 year old. If you actually read what i wrote itd be saying that the field is the thing that should change. Sure i have electro guns but than again youre an idiot. A football helmet is the equivalent of a paintball mask That is protective gear. Its good that that evolves. The paintball field has changed to cater to the unfocused and one that are low on patience. its hard for stock players to spray and pray seeing as to how they must rock there gun forward after every shot. And im sure you would KILL me if we played speedball because i dont have an electro and your parents bought you an angel LCD for your 12th birthday because all those kids at the field had one! Maybe you should spend more time on reading comprehension before you show your head once more in these forums. Now anyone have something intelligent to say?

[BuNkErEd89]

hmmm actually i dont have an electro. i had a spyder and now have a mag that i bought...i love your assumptions. and as for the football thing, yes i realize that wasnt a good comparison.

[BuNkErEd89]

u should either accept change, join the army, or just have your opinion and not flame others because they differ.

[iownamag]

Yea dude people's parents don't buy them angels, unless of course its just the kids you hang out with. Yes, I have an emag which is not cheap, but I started with a stock classic standard feed mag and worked my way up mowing lawns!

And btw, paintball wasn't invented to mark cows! markers were invented to mark cows maybe, but the "competition" of people shooting eachother with them started with the military using them for training. And as bunkered said, you go tape your feet to a piece of wood and slide down a hill in the snow. Then I'll go play woodsball . I'm not really that against woodsball though I play that too, but I am recently moving over to speedball and am loving it. Change is good, progress is even better.

[Big_Chops]

alright stop whining. you guys sound like a bunch of 7 year old kids arguing about wat form of tag is better. and dude i am not gonna get mad but chill out with teh grossly overweight stuff because someday day some kid that is over weight is going to come up to you and put you in ur place.

[davidnj]

I play about once a month, maybe twice if Im lucky with a group of 5 of us. We don't care if its speedball, woods, a 'mix' of the two (sparse trees, bunkers, etc) just as long as we're playing paintball having fun.

When it's speedball we have alot of fun working together. We all know what our job is and we all do it reasonably well. We win our fair share of games.

When its woodsball\recball whatever you want to call it, our group of 5 will stick together but at the same time we like to help out the people who haven't played mcuh before. More than once we've given a younger player a flag with the hope that they'll keep coming back so we have more people to compete with and against.

In the end, for me, its boils down to wanting to have fun with my friends playing paintball. The only time I really really hate any kind of paintball is when we get a bad ref who would rather talk with people in the dead zone instead of watching the game. To me there is nothing worse than one of our games being ruined by a bad ref. I guess thats off topic but well a bad ref\cheaters is the only thing that can ruin a day of paintball for me.

[luke]

[-=Squid=-]

Im sick of all these so called adults, who cant use proper grammar mind you (zimbo), whos only basis for argument is stating that younger kids parents pay for all of there stuff. Thats not only ignorant, but stupid. Zimbo, none of your points are valid in woodsball defense, so why dont you just give up? Your just making yourself look more unintelligent, especially when you poke fun at younger people.

EDIT: I own an LCD and paid for it myself. Judging by your other posts, its a better marker than yours, but apparently it sucks as well as my playing ability because your not only older, but my parents HAD to have bought it for me. Chuckle.

[Zimbo]

Originally posted by iownamag
And btw, paintball wasn't invented to mark cows! markers were invented to mark cows maybe, but the "competition" of people shooting eachother with them started with the military using them for training. And as bunkered said, you go tape your feet to a piece of wood and slide down a hill in the snow. Then I'll go play woodsball . I'm not really that against woodsball though I play that too, but I am recently moving over to speedball and am loving it. Change is good, progress is even better.

What im saying is that when it was invented it wasnt for sport. Skiing for example when it was originally invented in the mountains of the alps and whatnot was just for transportation. 1 ski and 1 big pole it later evolved and it now a 2planking 2 sticking race/freestyle competition but it was originally invented for something other than sport. Ill use a well known example. Baseball was invented to be a game/competition. It was made to do that so its a sport. track and field is if you take it back to the oldn days just running and jumping and throwing. Javelins were used for hunting everyone jumps (they just work on ther style for greater distance) and everyone runs at one point or another. Paintball if you could call it that back in the day was for marking trees and cows. At some point someone said lets shoot each other or something like that but it came from the original idea of marking things. Soccer = sport Football = sport Rugby = sport
Fishing = not a sport Riflery = Not a sport Swimming = not a sport. if You need anymore clarafication just yell

[Zimbo]

Originally posted by -=Squid=-
Im sick of all these so called adults, who cant use proper grammar mind you (zimbo), whos only basis for argument is stating that younger kids parents pay for all of there stuff. Thats not only ignorant, but stupid. Zimbo, none of your points are valid in woodsball defense, so why dont you just give up? Your just making yourself look more unintelligent, especially when you poke fun at younger people.

EDIT: I own an LCD and paid for it myself. Judging by your other posts, its a better marker than yours, but apparently it sucks as well as my playing ability because your not only older, but my parents HAD to have bought it for me. Chuckle.

OW MAN! im gonna go cry myself to sleep!