speedball --- dont like it

[Konigballer]

Marek, I dont think anyone but a band nerd would call being in a marching band a sport....

[Marek]

Originally posted by Konigballer
Marek, I dont think anyone but a band nerd would call being in a marching band a sport....

No, Music Educators like myself would also call it a sport, as it is a physical activity with the intent of enjoyment. That is the definition, and it does fall under the meaning.

It was more of a point of clarification towards the person who said that paintball was not a sport.

[Zimbo]

^^^^thats just sad man^^^^

Do you say that so the large kids can say yeah i play a SPORT! what sport? uhhhh marching band . thats to funny many major props on that joke



**Edit** Marek you must think cheerleading bass fishing skydiving sleeping masochism and murder are sports than, Because its an activity people enjoy! how about watching TV and playing pocket pool? Chasing old ladies down the street or throwing rocks at cop cars? all those can be fun activities so i guess they must be sports to.

[Marek]

Originally posted by Zimbo
^^^^thats just sad man^^^^

Do you say that so the large kids can say yeah i play a SPORT! what sport? uhhhh marching band . thats to funny many major props on that joke



**Edit** Marek you must think cheerleading bass fishing skydiving sleeping masochism and murder are sports than, Because its an activity people enjoy! how about watching TV and playing pocket pool? Chasing old ladies down the street or throwing rocks at cop cars? all those can be fun activities so i guess they must be sports to.

^^^^^^ that's just a sad little boy, emphasis on the boy

I am going to be as nice as possible, so listen up son.

Large kids DO play paintball, which is considered a sport. Offensive lines are usually made up of these "Large Kids," which if you know anything protect the quaterback. Sumo wrestling, which is also a sport, is made up of really large kids. I could continue, but I think this is enough for you to get the point.

Cheerleading is a sport. If you do not think so, then you are really off. Bass fishing is a sport. So if fly fishing for that matter. These are things that require physical activity and done for enjoyment.

Sleeping requires no physical exertion. Well, maybe you while you release fluids on your matress, but not most people. We overcome that problem around the first few years of our lives.

Let's try and read before posting. I clearly stated in both replies that it is a PHYSICAL activity you engage in for enjoyment. Let's try to think before we post, it would save people from looking ignorant.

[JT2002]

you speedball haters must admit, paintball would not be ANYWHERE near as big and popular as it is today without speedball. if speedball had never been created, we would still be known as those crazy war hawks fighting wars against eachother in the woods.

[Zimbo]

Originally posted by Marek


^^^^^^ that's just a sad little boy, emphasis on the boy

I am going to be as nice as possible, so listen up son.

Large kids DO play paintball, which is considered a sport. Offensive lines are usually made up of these "Large Kids," which if you know anything protect the quaterback. Sumo wrestling, which is also a sport, is made up of really large kids. I could continue, but I think this is enough for you to get the point.

Cheerleading is a sport. If you do not think so, then you are really off. Bass fishing is a sport. So if fly fishing for that matter. These are things that require physical activity and done for enjoyment.

Sleeping requires no physical exertion. Well, maybe you while you release fluids on your matress, but not most people. We overcome that problem around the first few years of our lives.

Let's try and read before posting. I clearly stated in both replies that it is a PHYSICAL activity you engage in for enjoyment. Let's try to think before we post, it would save people from looking ignorant.

well most if not all people move around in there sleep and well some people find murder to be fun and well stabbing someone requires some arm movement. Masochism requires some physical movement to. Lets see suicide is a sport so is armed robbery, streaking can be a sport and so it mollesting children. Marek could you be anymore wrong?

[Marek]

Originally posted by Zimbo
well most if not all people move around in there sleep and well some people find murder to be fun and well stabbing someone requires some arm movement. Masochism requires some physical movement to. Lets see suicide is a sport so is armed robbery, streaking can be a sport and so it mollesting children. Marek could you be anymore wrong?

Oh what, no comment about the big kids reply?

Well, on to the other mess. Sleeping, well, you are not physically exerting yourself, so nope sorry.

Masochism is a sexual perversion. Come to think of it, almost all the things that you mentioned are perversions of some sort. I wonder why is that? I sure that means something; for you to mention 4 horrible perversions of man. I would honestly go seek help if these things remind you of pleasure. I am sure that that is not right, since most people would agree that what you mentioned is both digusting and demented.

Well, save armed robbery, which, if you think about it is not for pleasure but really a way to get rich quick. Think about it sport.

[JT2002]

can you say, FLAMEFEST!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this thread is gettin ghey, especially the one who started it

[FreshmanBob]

[Lohman446]

Originally posted by blakdragon21
Speedball is the ultimate game for any paintballer. Almost anyone can play rec ball or woods ball but it takes a true athlete to play speedball. They are still fine in my book, but there is very little teamwork in rec or woodsball.

Funny... I play speedball and I don't come close to considering myself an athlete. BTW - I do play on a low-level local tournament team. I play a sport - when I did martial arts I did not consider myself an athlete. I am not in the shape that a "true" athlete is - many of the people who play speedball are not. It does not take a true athlete to play speedball, and playing speedball does not make you a true athlete. I will not defend this statement against those that play with no other source of income besides there playing - as it does not hold. There are many athletes that play speedball, there are many non-athletes that do as well.

Even for most of us that play competitively, the competition is more about the thrill of the game than the money on the line. Winning is nice, but I do not depend on it. The difference is when I play scenario style games, and normally walk away without knowing the score, this is for fun. Anyways... those of you/us that play speedball cannot look down on those that play woodsball... many of them are very very good. Woodsball does require a skill set not found in arena ball, arena ball does require a skill set that is not found in woodsball. Many of these skills do overlap though. BTW, I play both woods and arena ball... I find both exciting though, given a choice, play arena ball.

[Zimbo]

Originally posted by Marek


Oh what, no comment about the big kids reply?

Well, on to the other mess. Sleeping, well, you are not physically exerting yourself, so nope sorry.

Masochism is a sexual perversion. Come to think of it, almost all the things that you mentioned are perversions of some sort. I wonder why is that? I sure that means something; for you to mention 4 horrible perversions of man. I would honestly go seek help if these things remind you of pleasure. I am sure that that is not right, since most people would agree that what you mentioned is both digusting and demented.

Well, save armed robbery, which, if you think about it is not for pleasure but really a way to get rich quick. Think about it sport.

Perversion or not they are all sports. So i guess ill be joining the USAmurder Association once it starts up. this is gonne be sweet just imagine tham showing people getting hunted down and killed for FUN! on ESPN! Wow what a sport thats gonne be! think its gonna make it to the olympics? Yeah probably before bass fishing and playing in the marching band do! Wow I didnt know that theft was a sport! Almost everything is a sport if you enjoy it! So i guess for some kids going to school is a sport. Sweet man! When the cops question me for beating someone with a baseball bat ill just say What a guy cant play a sport without getting arrested? damn whats the world coming to Marek i just wanna play sports! **End sarcasm**

So if we push Mareks Pro-nonathletic person definition of sport we're left with an activity that was invented for the sole purpose of competing. So since that makes more sense than letting murder be a sport i tihnk we should stick with mine. Nothing is wrong with Paintball being a recreactional activity. Sure its got a professional circuit but than again so does track and field and bass fishing. If we're gonna use Mareks defenition So does armed robbery and theft. Its called americas most wanted where they give a top10 of americas most wanted. Its a competition! a race to #1!

[Marek]

Originally posted by Zimbo


Perversion or not they are all sports. So i guess ill be joining the USAmurder Association once it starts up. this is gonne be sweet just imagine tham showing people getting hunted down and killed for FUN! on ESPN! Wow what a sport thats gonne be! think its gonna make it to the olympics? Yeah probably before bass fishing and playing in the marching band do! Wow I didnt know that theft was a sport! Almost everything is a sport if you enjoy it! So i guess for some kids going to school is a sport. Sweet man! When the cops question me for beating someone with a baseball bat ill just say What a guy cant play a sport without getting arrested? damn whats the world coming to Marek i just wanna play sports! **End sarcasm**

So if we push Mareks Pro-nonathletic person definition of sport we're left with an activity that was invented for the sole purpose of competing. So since that makes more sense than letting murder be a sport i tihnk we should stick with mine. Nothing is wrong with Paintball being a recreactional activity. Sure its got a professional circuit but than again so does track and field and bass fishing. If we're gonna use Mareks defenition So does armed robbery and theft. Its called americas most wanted where they give a top10 of americas most wanted. Its a competition! a race to #1!

Not only my definition sport, but also Merriam-Webster's definition. I guess they are wrong too huh? What do they know, right?

[Zimbo]

So just say it Murder is a sport

M-W gives and old *** definition of sport. Either agree that Murder is a sport or disagree. If you disagree the whole definition and you are wrong. So i guess you have 2 choices. Be a sick bastard or be wrong. Either way its going into my sig.

[Sir_Brass]

Originally posted by blakdragon21
Speedball is the ultimate game for any paintballer. Almost anyone can play rec ball or woods ball but it takes a true athlete to play speedball. They are still fine in my book, but there is very little teamwork in rec or woodsball. You are not always playing with the same people and not everyone has a certain job to do in a certain amount of time.

Funny, but last time I looked, the same applied to speedball. Yesterday I played woodsball and we kept the same teams all day. There was more teamwork in those games on both sides than there was when I played speedball.

Point is that no style of play, whether speedball or woods ball, necessarilly promotes teamwork in and of itself. I've seen teamwork in speedball AND in woodsball. I've also seen ZERO teamwork in speedball AND in woodsball.

It takes a TEAM to have teamwork, and you can have a woodsball team as easilly as you can have a speedball team.

Oh, and athelete, hmm, maybe, but I doubt it. Just because paintball is a sport (and quite a great one at that) does not make every paintball player an athelete, at least, not in my book. Then again, my definitions don't ALWAYS come from a dictionary.

[JT2002]

looks like we got a "who can write teh best essay on what is/ isnt a sport and why speedball does/doesnt suck"