Does everyone wear jerseys?

[RingOfScale]

i would wear a jersey if i had the money at the moment ... well actually i have 400 dollars, and would get an AO jersey, cept i dont have a mag yet, and on the off chance i change my mind, i dont wanna be wearing a AO jersey and shooting an autococker or impulse :)

[Cheeseball24]

omg, this guy on my team has like 4 jersey's and two pairs of paintball pants, one dye, one jt. He wears the pants EVERY OTHER DAY, literally. He swaps out dye and jt. And every day he wears a jersey. I'm starting to wonder if the guy actually has any other clothes at all.

[Rumble]

omg, this guy on my team has like 4 jersey's and two pairs of paintball pants, one dye, one jt. He wears the pants EVERY OTHER DAY, literally. He swaps out dye and jt. And every day he wears a jersey. I'm starting to wonder if the guy actually has any other clothes at all.

lol actually he dosent, except for maybe one other shirt and one regular pair of pants

[68magOwner]

I have played several tournies, and have yet to wear a jersey (excluding a muppets jersy from my lil bro's soccer team as a joke) frankyl, making minimum wage, while trying to pay for all my paintball stuff, i dont have the spare money to get a jersey . But i do have a nightmare before christmas shirt that i usally wear paintballing because it matches the lazer engraving on my marker

[845]

I almost always wear a jersey or a black long sleeve shirt.

[pbguy888]

Ive been playin for 8 years, shoot a viking, what do I wear?
Winter-Hoodie
Summer- White long sleeve shirt.

[tony3]

Originally posted by dave_p
flame away dude, but i guarantee i am no one to be trifled with. im not here to flame BTW. i started playing around the time you were 8 years old. back then you worried about getting good before you bought the fancy gun(much less a shirt). i understand your frustration to a degree but its a waste of time thinking about it. there will be poseurs no matter what. there are so many other things about paintball that need to be addressed, clothing is the least of it. let these kids buy their gear. if they get good then excellent. if they quit whatever. but dont measure someone by the cost of their gun. 40 for shirt, 70 pants and 100 gun = 210 bucks. a small investment by the parents(if these are younger kids you are talking about)is safer if they quit than say buying 12 year old johnny a 1000$ timmy and having him quit cuz his expensive gun didnt keep him from getting lit up.

I don't know exactly what to say because I didn't understand most of that, but I'll give it a shot. Personally, you can most times judge someone by their gun. If they are shooting a 100 dollar blowback, they most likely aren't to serious about the game and don't play to often. How many times do you see hardcore tourney players with blowbacks? If I see someone with clothes that cost more then their gun, I will assume they are a poser trying to look cool. Am I right all the time? No, but most of the time I am.

[NoFearPaintballer]

i wear a BRass eagle jersey i bought for 5$ for $]-[1Ts n giggles. or ill just wear a empire tshirt. O yea i wear my empire pants. i dont really wanna wear a jersey unless im at a tournemnet with my team that im extremely serious about

[badinfo]

Ya know, Suicidal Snyper posted a bunch of pics in some other thread and the one thing that struck me was how pathetic some of those young kids looked in all their pimped out gear. Kudos to SS for wearing that rockin Tshirt and the stuffed dog. Jerseys dont make ya play better, and good game beats good gun most of the time.
Oh yeah, I wear camo. Like I used to back in 84 lol.

[breg]

I wear a jersey becaue I don't have a lot of clothes that I can chance ruining during a game. So, I cave and bought an '02 Dye jersey at about 25% off. The pants I bought because i thought they were cool looking and I wear them all the time. That and they are comfy while going commando...
But, before that I wore a grey dickies work shirt over a long sleeved black t-shirt and camo pants. But, I like the jersey and paintball pants better mostly because of the vents built into them. Especially the pants, they have this panel built in to help prevent swamp crotch... swamp crotch is not good...

[shartley]

[Evil Bob]

Does everyone where a jersey?

No, "everyone" does not wear a jersey. Your average baller doesn't play speedball or play in tournies, they usually play once or twice a year when the weather is nice and wear whatever they have around the house that can be desposed of after playing, the average player doesn't own their own gear, they usually rent it from the field.

The fact of the matter is that less then 10% play speedball and less then 2% play tournies, which is a far cry from being the all encompassing "everyone".

Most people are just happy to show up and afford to play a game once or twice a year, they typically wear whatever raggy clothes they have laying around the house and they play rec ball.

Now, those that happen to play more then a handful number of games a year falls into the hobbiest group. This is the category that most of us here on AO (and other paintball related forums) fall into, we are hobbiests, but regardless of what you percieve, we are a small minority of the total number of people out there who are playing paintball, we only account for 15% of the paintball market. The hobbiest typically own their own gear and will have at least tried several different variations of the game. This means they will have at least given speedball or possibly a local tourny a shot at one time or another, it does not mean that they play these two games on a regular basis. Most hobbiest play woodsball, that is where the bulk of paintball takes place. The percentage of hobbiest level players that regularly play in tournies is still quite low. Take AO for example, only a small percentage of AO regularly plays tournies. This is mainly due to the fact that hobbiests dont have the time, inclination, or money to play a tournament, much less a full tourny season. The plain fact of the matter is you shoot alot of paint at a tournament, the better you team does, the more games you play, the more paint you shoot, and the higher the paint bill at the end of the day. Your average hobbiest would rather spend money on equipment then lay out $500-$1200 in paint for a single tourny.

I hate to break it to some of you, but amatuer tourny players fall into the hobbiest category as well, they're the upper crust of the hobbiest who have the time, money, and inclination to take their hobby one step further, but they are still hobbiests.

The level above the hobbiest is the professional. Professionals who typically do not buy their own gear, it is provided for them through their sponsorships. These guys make up less then 1% of the total number of people playing paintball.

-Evil Bob

[Pacifist_Farmer]

I guess that makes me a hobbiest

moving on...

Played 8 years, owned three jerseys, and i never seem to be able to wear them past the first game of the day, i get hot way too fast

[phantomhitman]

i am a hobbyistest also. i like my hobby though

[Sir_Brass]

I'm in my 3rd year of playing and have spend very little time getting pball 'wear' other than gloves and a mask. I have only 1 jersey, but I rarely wear it b/c it makes me stick out like a sore thumb in the woods.

I'd LOVE to own a jersey that I can effectively wear in the woods, b/c I like jerseys. They're VERY comfortable to wear. But effectiveness comes before looks in my book (thus the reason I shoot a blazer instead of a fancy milled autococker).