Would you let your child play paintball today

[Tyger]

The question is this - would you let your ten year old son or daughter play paintball?

No.

[FallNAngel]

BTW... "Velocity" ramping would only affect velocity slightly. Enough to bring it to 320-330... Spool-valve guns it wouldn't matter because the dump chamber doesn't change in size... dwell is just used to determine how long the dump chamber should be open so that it can be efficient.

Unless you start the dwell abnormally low and the pressure a bit on the higher side... in this case, increasing the dwell would allow the dump chamber to fully vent, which would increase velocity.

[onedude36]

wouldn't that also give abnormally low efficiency? and possibly a little inconsistency when shooting even slowly?

[Cameo]

A child need not to have just one hobby or sport that they do.. You have to give children choices in finding and devolping thier inner talents. With each child being so very different you can just put them into what you like and expect them to stick with it or like it... neither one of my children picked up my love for baskettball (i was a state all star), or my love for cheerleading (did it all my life). They both have found thier own little niches in life. It took just a bit of time for them both to discover what they liked, but once they did it there is no stopping them...
You have/had guns in your house as well as paint ball guns. Now is the time to teach your daughter the saftey issues that come with each of them..Pound them into her head each time she see's them, ect.. When it comes time that you think she is ready to play you will have already installed the respect for property and others' beings in her and that will be one less hurdle for her to get over if she does decide one day that she wants a hand in it.

[tropical_fishy]

I'd tell my kid to suck it up if they wanted to play. At 10, you're old enough to be able to:
a) play by the rules
b) understand the game and the risks of pain involved.

If they wanna play paintball, I'll take them to play paintball. BUT, if I take them to play paintball, they WILL play paintball, sans whining, crying, and complaining (unless serious injury occurs that requires instant amputation). If I knew my kid was prone to whining about pain and the like, I definitely wouldn't take him/her paintballing.

That said, I worked with nine year olds this summer. I saw these nine, ten, eleven year olds persevere through sting ray stings, jellyfish stings, rashes from paddling a mile, sore legs from running miles and swimming for hours. And you know waht? They lived, it was good for them.

Your ten year old can handle paintball.

[steimway]

The question is this - would you let your ten year old son or daughter play paintball?

Nope. I shot my brother once when he was 11, because he really wanted to know what it felt like. For about 20 minutes afterwards he was crying on the ground. I felt horrible. It was obvious that he was far too young to understand the pain associated with getting hit. In the past few years, he's been almost afraid of even shooting my gun. Now that he's 13, he's going to play this weekend together, so we'll see how he does.

[shortkidsrus]

I think it really depends on the kid. There are kids my age (17) who probably would not deal with paintballing very well.

If I did decide to take a younger kid paintballing, it would be at a certain field. There are obviously some fields that are better suited for beginners (lower velocity, less experienced players, etc.)

[Aslan]

Absolutely

Kids have a way of determing on their own what suits them. If my daughter wanted to pay paintball...when she's out of diapers...that's great. I would start her out playing rec ball...maybe some woodsball...try some scenario games. If she strayed to the "darkside" and wanted to play speedball...well, I hope by then she has a job because I'm not paying $1300 for a marker that goes through a half case a paint a game.

What I WOULD do to make sure that my kid doesn't become a "paintball idiot"...is:

1) Stress safety.
2) Stress fair play.
3) Stress sportsmanship.
4) And if she swears or throws her marker or does any other thing that I find offensive...she sits out for however long I see fit.

Parents need to play paintball WITH their kids...so they can teach them that just because paintball is full of A$#@&*^!, doesn't mean you have to be one too.

[steimway]

What I WOULD do to make sure that my kid doesn't become a "paintball idiot"...is:

1) Stress safety.
2) Stress fair play.
3) Stress sportsmanship.
4) And if she swears or throws her marker or does any other thing that I find offensive...she sits out for however long I see fit.

Sounds like the way it should be.