Time to quit?

[Automaggot68]

You're all failures.




Mr.T pitties the fool who quits.

[SCpoloRicker]

Take some time off, and try different styles of play.

/echo?
//not not that echo, a real echo

[goneloco]

If you deside to quit playing sell all your gear, no jokes, keep nothing. I had my gear for 2 years and didn't play, started to play agien bought some new gear and didn't play for another year. If you get out for little bit and keep stuff you always think it will be fun to start back, but it sucks. Some people think that I'm wrong for saying that, but its never as fun as it was with all your friends and just getting into it. Plus if part of you didn't think it sucked you wouldn't be thinking about quitting.

[DiRTyBuNNy]

I think it's been a little over 2 years since I've been on the field. It may be less but it feels like at least 2. I don't think I ever will play again. The new wife and I have been talking about having kids and I've started to play golf...so really it's just trading one thing for another.

--Mr. DB

[magman007]

Nooo Dan Not Golf!

[DiRTyBuNNy]

Nooo Dan Not Golf!

next it will be plaid pants and a walker....

--Mr. DB

[Wizzman]

Nobody quits paintball, they just take vacations. Sometimes these are long vacations, but they do come back.

My mom said my dad was on vacation, do you think he will come back...

[SpecialBlend2786]

I've been slowly getting rid of most of my gear...just hoping to keep one decent setup incase I ever feel the urge to play. Well, I always have the urge, never the means or the time to play now adays

[BlackVCG]

I haven't shot a paintball gun since the summer after I graduated college. That was two years ago. That senior year my college buddies and I played about once/twice a week and had tournaments about once a month. We all went our seperate ways and I played just that once with a college friend when he was in town that summer. I was also working on about 4-5 guns a week for you AO guys/gals and continued that on into the summer and then completely stopped about 3 months removed from college. I haven't put a wrench to a paintball gun since.

I keep thinking I'd like to start working on guns again and get out and play sometime but I have a feeling that once I start doing that again, I'll get tired of it pretty quick. It's just like college. I miss being a dorm rat, having 3-4 hour breaks in the morning/afternoon before going to another class and being around the close-knit group of friends I made in the four years I was there. But then again I know if I were to go back I'd get tired of classes, not making any money, crappy food, etc.

I think the one thing about paintball that doesn't do well for the sport in terms of growth and sustaining it is that once people quit and get out of it, they don't really come back to it the same as when they got into it. Everyone starts out wanting to play tournaments, get sponsorship and play 3 times a week. After they get burned out from that they take a break and come back to play rec-ball. It seems like, as opposed to other sports, people get burned out from paintball fairly quickly and don't stick with it for 10+ years. I'd say average life span of a tournament player is in the 2-3 year range.

Anyway, the one aspect of paintball that will always stay with me is the memories and the majority of the people I met through the sport.

[Cow hunter]

i try to get out and play every weekend i can, ive got a very good friend who is into the tourney scene, and has far too much into the sport to quit, so ill hitch a ride with him as much as i can. financially the best thing to do to stay in the sport is either mooch off others, or get to know the field staff and ask to work for paint. personally id do what rouge said;

Focus on one aspect of it that you still really enjoy(coaching, reffing, tinkering, teching, collecting, playing, etc) and take a break from the rest of it.

i know a couple people wo havent played in almost 3 years but still regularly work on markers and visit the fields. if i ever get to feel like not playing (ie; theres a team there talking trash and ruining it for everyone else) ill sit down and work on someones marker or talk to others that are sitting around

[Rudz]

awww

Well, I just sold my 2004 DC Viking for $750. Sorry to see it go, but...

I do play a variety of paintball styles when I do play; speedball and woodsball with private groups. Electro, mech, or pump even.

I'm leaning towards just parting out the rest of markers and keeping the Mags and the rest of my eqipment. Can see where it goes from there...

i just saw that sold on the aka forum...awww..that was a beautiful marker..btw was that just a blue black acid wash?? i love that anno, it looked great on that marker..

[psychowarden]

A very wise paintballer once told me, "One never quits paintball, he simply takes breaks, but he will return." too bad I cant remember who it was.

[kosmo]

A very wise paintballer would have known the difference between brakes and breaks. On a side note, when I get back to the states Im going to unload all my junk at cut-rate prices and pick up an ion This thread got me thinking about the junk I had accumulated and never plan to use again. Ive got a sto cocker sitting around with no bolt, a flatline way past hydro date, a warp feed that I never figured out, and heck, I dont even know where my bushmaster or my rt pro disappeared to.

[psychowarden]

Yeah yeah, I had been awake all day with a baseball game. Give me a break, I was tired.