Sport or Hobby?

Hello everyone, and welcome to the first installment of What You Didn't Know About Paintball. I, Aurelio Francis, will be discussing the sport of paintball and hopefully persuade you to view paintball more as a sport than a hobby.

         So exactly what is paintball in your eyes? Do you see it as a sport? Or do you see it as a hobby? These question are quite controversial because paintball can easily be both. Most people typically see it as a hobby, but did you know that paintball has more that just a "hobby" ? Imagine this, you are running from bunker to bunker hearing nothing but the sound of paint flying past you at over 205 miles per hour and each player shooting an average of 12 paintball per second, along with this the constant yelling from your teammates giving out position of potential threats. Sounds like a crazy sport doesn't it? But it doesn't end there either! With all this going on you're trying to make strategic moves to help your team's progress up the field. This mix of speed and strategy are the ingredients that make paintball so unique. Players are required to be not only physically fit but have the mental capacity to make smart strategic moves while under pressure. In addition, players need to be disciplined, if it comes down to a one on three. That player has to have the discipline to keep calm, and make smart choices. Rather than going crazy and running down the field on a suicide mission. Clearly there's a lot more to paintball than what most people think. If helps, think paintball as a real life scenario of chess. Players practice to think two moves ahead, rather than just shooting randomly hoping to hit someone. In the end, paintball is a game of strategy. I have attached a video that gives you just a slight taste of the intensity that paintball brings. In next week's post I will be going more in depth about the background of paintball and some basic rules on how the game is played.