Paintball is 3rd most popular extreme sport!

[shartley]

Originally posted by Carbon
I hope they mean extreme by the context of "differnt". Casue in all honesty, to me an extreme sport = higher possibilly of extreme injury and/or death. Surfing is extreme. Paintball is "safe" remember...

[steveo356]

I dunno, if ur in a rush to get from stagin area to field like i was a week or so ago. You mihgt gas up b4 removing your barrel plug n hit ur trigger on ur RT pro on acident n have a balistic barrel plug fling towards ur junk. on the other hand ive only spraing my ankle about 9 times skate boarding. I value sum think higher then others. paintball far more extreme



P.S. I have switched from barrel plug to condoms after that game

[Carbon]

well stevo, your less likeley to repeat shooting your junk than hurting your ankle a tenth time. For sure.

[luke]

Paintball, an extreme sport, I don't think so! Last time I checked it wasn't life threatening to participate in the sport..... What a stretch!

[Carbon]

From now on i declare paintball and Extremely Odd sport.

[raehl]

Well...

Until last year's SGMA Superstudy, we were classified as a shooting sport. The insurance industry still classifies us as a shooting sport. I'll take "extreme" over "shooting" any day of the week.

- Chris

[Carbon]

I like how un-PC and more accurately descriptive shooting sport is.

[Bolter]

funkykarl and you mean to tell me that extreme ironing is not up there? the new extreme sport that is taking europe by storm!?

I play for Storm in Europe and we hate ironing.

[UThomas]

3rd most popular "extreme" sport translates to like 35th "regular" sport right?

[raehl]

Accurate?

Other shooting sports are things like archery and sharpshooting and hunting. I don't think that's accurate at all.

Ultimately, I'd like to see us listed as a plain ole team sport.

- Chris

[trains are bad]

I will never use the E-word again, especially not to describe paintball. Shooting sport is fine, since I'm into shooting sports, but that's not doing justice to the team element. I think Paintball should be a team sport. It's not really much different than basketball.