Paintball Field Locations

Most players prefer to go to commercial paintball parks, which charge for admission. These paintball parks usually feature different themed fields (e.g. woods, jungle, city, or historical battlefield), as well as a complex of speedball fields for tournament teams. Some commercial fields are indoors, allowing players to play when it is too hot, too wet, or too dark outside. Commercial fields also (but not always) provide such amenities as bathrooms, picnic areas, lockers, equipment rentals, air refills, and even food service. These fields adhere to specific safety and insurance standards and have a paid staff, including referees, whose job is to make sure players are instructed in proper play in a manner that ensures all participants' safety. In order to avoid liability, commercial fields strictly monitor paintball velocity with chronographs.

IF you want to find a field by you check out this paintball field locater.

Until next time, have a good one.

Paintballing History

Paintballing started as a hunting game between two friends in the woods of Henniker, New Hampshire. The game was originally called the National Survival Game, as it was not recognized as a sport at the time. In 1976, Hayes Noel, a stock trader and his friend Charles Gaines, a writer, were walking home and chatting about Gaines' recent trip to Africa and his experiences hunting buffalo. Eager to recreate the adrenaline rush that came with the thrill of the hunt, and inspired by Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game, the two friends came up with the idea to create a game where they could stalk and hunt each other.

In the ensuing months, the friends talked about what sorts of qualities and characteristics made for a good hunter and survivalist. They were stumped, however, on how to devise a test of those skills. It wasn't until a year and a half later that George Butler, a friend of theirs, showed them a paintball gun in an agricultural catalog. The gun was a Nelspot 007 marker manufactured by the Nelson Paint Company and was used by cattlemen to mark cows. Noel and Gaines each purchased a pistol and had a duel in what became the very first game of paintball. Gaines won.

What is Scenario Paintball?

Scenario paintball is a category of paintballing game where partakers complete missions in a historical or story bound situation. Scenario paintball games are often large-scale reenactments of historical battles involving hundreds of people, like the Battle of the Bulge, or modern scenarios like storming a building and rescuing hostages. Occasionally, the scenario director may create wholly fictional settings, allowing for more creativity and imagination on the part of the participants.

To enhance the realism of the game, scenario games may also incorporate tanks, faux "air strikes", "helicopter insertions", "booby traps", and an extensive intelligence network both before and during the game.

Compared to the average speedball game, which lasts around 5 minutes, scenario games are much longer, generally lasting between 6-26 hours.

Scenario ball is also distinguished in its usage of paintball marksmen, who are seldom seen anywhere except scenario games and woodsball games.

What is paintballing?

Paintballing is an extreme sport in which players use compressed air guns called markers to shoot paintballs at other players. It is in essence a complex form of tag, as players struck with paintballs during the game are eliminated.

This activity draws a wide array of players, and the Sporting Goods Manufacturer's Association estimates that approximately 10 million people play annually in the United States alone. Insurance statistics show that paintball is one of the safest sports in existence, even more so than golf.

Games can be played either indoors or outdoors and take various forms, of which some of the most popular are woodsball and tourneyball, also sometimes known as speedball under various circumstances. Rules for playing paintballing vary widely, with most designed to ensure that participants enjoy the sport in a safe environment. The sport requires a significant amount of equipment and has even developed its own slang.

My Favorite Paintball Videos

I enjoy watching paintball videos to learn from profesionals when I'm at home bord. these are my favorite paintball videos...

Cool Paintball Video
The movement from the players is awsome.

Paintball Tournament Video
a speedball tournament.

Funny Paintball Video
I don't what this video to learn from it but it is still really funny.

Paintball War Video
A great video of some on flanking.

Dynasty Paintball Video
This teams is very skilled in paintballing and I love watching them play.

These are my favorite paintball videos.

See you next time

Welcome to the grand opening

ThePaintballing blog will have information on paintballing topics to help people know about the sport. This extreme sport has become very popular in the past few years if you want to learn more about this sport check out this Paintballing site.


Have a good one,
Bob