When I first started playing paintball, I had a blast no matter what. I didn't care if I got mowed down by my more experienced friends, I was having fun. And one dayI'd be able to wipe the floor with them anyway, right? Going out to a friends huge woods and playing, messing wit one another in the 'staging area,' having fun in the woods. Paintball was challenging and fun, a learning axperience, helped along by careful magazine reading, and watching of webdog radio videos, over and over. With no air or paint, I would endlessly mime on feild moves, making sure I could hit any target I wanted, pow pow!
Slowly, I moved to speedball out in Portland, When my old companions stopped playing. I loved the adrenaline rush immediately, Here was REAL paintball! But I missed the carefree fun out with my friends, not being here with strangers. Over time (less than last time), I have come to the point where I regularly get 3-4 elimenations a game, and don't get hit all that much. I have dreamed about playing in tournies for as long as I knew they existed. I am at a skill level where I could play well in one. But there is a problem. I am 70 miles away from portland, where I play, and even further from most tournies. I can't get a team together, my one and only friend who kept playing with me is now just playing pump out in the woods with the latest batch of kids to start, (they come in waves about sixth grade, and then they have all stopped by 8th) And even if he did play on a team, We still need opne more person, a place to get air, paint, etc.
I seem to have hit a wall where I am nopt progressing anymore, playing against mostly newbies, you don't improve by whaling on people. You improve by being beaten. I went and played with my friend august Friday night, and he had never played before he had fun, and I enjoyed watching hime work his way up all night, at the end he bunkered two people in their starting bunker, but I was pretty bored most of the night.
What now?
Slowly, I moved to speedball out in Portland, When my old companions stopped playing. I loved the adrenaline rush immediately, Here was REAL paintball! But I missed the carefree fun out with my friends, not being here with strangers. Over time (less than last time), I have come to the point where I regularly get 3-4 elimenations a game, and don't get hit all that much. I have dreamed about playing in tournies for as long as I knew they existed. I am at a skill level where I could play well in one. But there is a problem. I am 70 miles away from portland, where I play, and even further from most tournies. I can't get a team together, my one and only friend who kept playing with me is now just playing pump out in the woods with the latest batch of kids to start, (they come in waves about sixth grade, and then they have all stopped by 8th) And even if he did play on a team, We still need opne more person, a place to get air, paint, etc.
I seem to have hit a wall where I am nopt progressing anymore, playing against mostly newbies, you don't improve by whaling on people. You improve by being beaten. I went and played with my friend august Friday night, and he had never played before he had fun, and I enjoyed watching hime work his way up all night, at the end he bunkered two people in their starting bunker, but I was pretty bored most of the night.
What now?
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