What does it for you?

[peewee]

Because it's the only way I can legally shoot people.......

[wimag]

what keeps me coming back ?
the rush, blasting people in the face. My older cousin and his kid play and in 3 years my twin boys will be old enough.
Pre-established 3 man and 5 man teams.

[SCpoloRicker]

Good thread. :)

[Barjack420]

that moment when you realize your in a 1 vs 3 situation......... a moment of clarity.......its not "if" you survive, its how much damage your capable of inflicting before you go to the deadbox


That and all the cool toys you can buy.

[Lohman446]

that moment when you realize your in a 1 vs 3 situation......... a moment of clarity.......its not "if" you survive, its how much damage your capable of inflicting before you go to the deadbox


That and all the cool toys you can buy.

Its even better when you realize such a thing, realize you are the last hope for your team to win, and pull it off... or the day I made it to my first bunker and realized my backplayer had taken all three of the other team on the break or just after

[DiSoRdeR]

I like to build guns, and there fun to shoot

[ThePixelGuru]

Watching a paintball zip out of your barrel and break on an opponent. Everything else is secondary to that.

[Lee]

" There is no hunting like the hunting of men. Those that have done and liked it hnever care for anything else thereafter."

-Ernest Hemingway.

i like to shoot
the adrenaline
most of my friends i met from playing
traveling to new fields and meeting new people with the game in common
the challenge

i can't think of another hobby or imagine what i'd do without this game.

[dahoeb]

the comeraderie (sp?), the tactics, playing against friends, the trash talk between friends on opposite teams.

hmmm what else....paintballs whizzing all around, especially when you don't know where its coming from. the great feeling i get when i sneak up on someone

the list goes on and on.

[zaqwert6]

" There is no hunting like the hunting of men. Those that have done and liked it never care for anything else thereafter."

Drenny rush of course.

Building guns you can actually use.

Good exercise. (Speedball anyway)

It's also one of the few sports where your part of a team but if the team fails or just plain sucks , your still able to fight to victory if your that good and can rise to the challenge.

[SpitFire1299]

What keeps you coming back to the game of paintball? What really does it for you? For me it's the arenaline mainly. The comradery you get with friends. Then there's the amazing technology that has developed since 1988(the year I started playing). I remember when auto triggers on Nelson based pumps were the best thing to happen to paintball.
The Razorback 3 was the hottest pump, then the SI Bushmaster came out!
Tell your feelings, opinions, hell even neat stories.

You are sooooo old school.

I dont know what keeps me coming back to the game. I think im addicted.

[Carbon]

god i can wax poetic on this subject but, for the benefit of all, i'll keep it short.

Aside from the obvious, the rush.

The idea of:

Continual, on-your-feet problem solving.
Travel.
The people you meet, good and bad.
the notion of paintball, being one fo the few things i do well.

[bleachit]

I forgot...


the newbie hunt.

good times.


the ability to take on 2-3 guys at a time and prevail

having 4 guys chase you down in the woods, and being unable to capitalize on there numbers.. numerous times.

Ambushing those same guys.

3 on 1 firefights where you are giving as good or better than you are taking

being able to use 12" of tree trunk to mask your movements, lay ambushes, and protect yourself from heavy fire in multiple directions.

being able to move undetected while those around you are not.

laying in wait, wondering if they see you yet, then jumping out at the last second, scaring the poo poo out of them and watching them fleeing in haste..

realizing you completely missed them and have to retreat to set up another ambush.

repeat.

when you are less than 50 feet from someone in a firefight.. and are able to move on them when they are behind the bunker to a new location.. only to watch them fire on your previous location. then you get to shoot back at them and they have no idea what just happened.

[Richter]

what does it for is me having to help a new player have fun during a day of paintball.

I was at a field a few months back were we were playing pump and for some reason the field owner put us against a bunch of semis instead of splitting us up to even the pump and semi ratio. He figured we wanted to play together. The guys were being somewhat jerks and had a tendency not to go out when you shot them with a pump. There were two rentals with us; a boyfreind and girlfriend which were not really having a good time. Since the guys were being such jerks we decided to go run our own game and have fun playing pump. The two rentals ask if they could join our game. We told them they were more than welcome. The girlfirend was actually a little scared to play. We coached her; helped her shoot her boyfriend and i think they had a great time! Helping someone have fun and having the fun shared with others is why i keep on playing.

[quik]

It's a good way for all my friends and I to have a good time together. Best part of the day is razzing each other on the ride home of our stupid mistakes we made each game.

Tournaments are fun because we get to play in front of lots of people and play as hard as we can.