renegade paintball

[Conversekidz]

Welcome to AO!

We have a pretty solid group of guys that play together here in Nor-Cal. I'm sure you can find some nice fields to play at. For example, TAGs Hollster field Sunday next week?? I'm half planning, look for a G2G post soon.

By the by, whereabouts in Nor-Cal do you live?

/End hijack

Renegade: I play on private land occasionaly in the Fremont Hills and also * in South S.J.. Fun, but lacking in chrono safety often, and mask/barrel plug standards.

One Exception is pump day at WharfRat and FirePro's hosting. Netting, chronos and plug/mask enforcement.

I'd love to play with players wiling to follow safety rules. In renegade situations, all too often, peoples standards drop.

Ricker

Well if you live in downtown san jose, I pretty much live 5-10 minutes away from you. I am from san jose as well. Actually next sunday we were planning to have an evening game at RAP from 6-10pm, 15 dollars to get in doors, unlimited CO2 and you can bring your own HP fill station. Paint is $45 for house, $75 for tourney level. The games are quick, 5 minutes tops, lost of different senario games played. Its all close combat, so figure 4000sq of play area if that.

[Conversekidz]

Oh and because its close combat, 250 FPS max.

[SCpoloRicker]

RAP website? I'm googling at work, so I'll post it up if I find it...

Your not Adam H by any chance?? This is Rick from Bellarmine.

edit: Real Action Paintball No pics of the playing field, though. I may try to drop by sometime after work...

[Conversekidz]

Nope, but I do live near Bellarmine

[SCpoloRicker]

damn CK, you do live right next to me... On Sunol, going towards the arena on Alameda it'd be on your right. Have you played at RAP before? I saw their booth at Night of the Catman, seemed pretty into mil-sim and room-clearing exercises.

You should come over and have a beer sometime

[Conversekidz]

Damn you are close, I live right next to Bellarmine on Elm St.

[Recon by Fire]

I play both at the fields and outlaw, here are a few comments:

The group that I play outlaw with started playing the fields and have since moved to private outlaw games because the safety is BETTER. Not to mention the poor quality of refs they had the misfortune to encounter. I have personally been shot at the field by a player shooting almost 400 FPS, that has never happened playing outlaw!

Outlaw ball does NOT hurt the industry, that is a crock. If anything it is a strong financial influence in paintball. If the consumer buys paintball products, it helps, period. Store owners benefit from outlaw players while field owners lose. If you are a field owner and local players prefer to play outlaw rather than at your field, better ask yourself what you are doing wrong and fix it

Outlaw play does not raise field insurance. Outlaw play is not insured or covered in any way by the insurance companies that insure the fields. Insurance rate increases are caused by policy holder claims and the simple fact that the insurance companies will bleed you dry at any chance given (like just the story of a paintball injury that cost them $0 in claims).

Both places; fields and outlaw, have their places in paintball. Just as woodsball and speedball have their places. It does not matter which you play, just that you do play