Why Play Tournament Paintball?

Great exercise for the body and mind

It’s a great way to relieve stress

Get to hang out with your friends

Allows you to escape to somewhere else

You get to shoot at each other

While working on teamwork

Sounds fun right?

Why else should you play?

New friendships are formed

New rivalries are created

VS

We play for the competition

Not for the money

That’s why paintball is different

The glory is what we play for

The respect from other teams

The feeling of being part of a team

Your team becoming your family on the field

And off…

The feel of winning with your family

Why play Tournament paintball?

for that nervous feeling on the start box

The eternity it feels like before the horn blows

When the horn blows only the game matters

Take all that’s bothering you and just leave it on the field

You become part of a new community

Why should you play paintball?

How is it different?

Statistically safer than other sports

Enables strategic thinking

travel around to different tournaments

Play others from around the world

Unique playing field

The equipment is different from other sports

Why do I play Paintball?

Because this is where I love being

Because I love hanging out with my team

Because win or lose we have each other’s backs

Convinced yet?

No?

Here are some paintball facts

Even though many people don’t know about paintball, its actually played worldwide

It’s becoming increasingly popular with colleges

The NCPA nationals were televised

There are many leagues around the world

Tournament Paintball is a growing sport

We hope one day is as big as one of the main stream sports

Perhaps one day in a major sporting venue

How can you get into paintball?

Locate a field near you!

Convinced yet?

Grab your friends and get out and play

Paintball is a way of life to most of us Here is a quote from a paintball legend Matty Marshall

“This isn’t a game; it’s a fight. Knuckles bare, fists clenched white, all weapons approved, and the bastards of the world are waiting in the shadows with broken bottles and big grins. And this fight is fought everyday. On long highways, dirty couches and floors, rock hard dirt fields and shaking planes. In foreign lands, lost, hated, broke. It’s the battle to prove to the world that your small part, your pinprick slice of existence, matters. That even if the sun explodes tomorrow and scatters us screaming into the void, we go smiling because we had faith in ourselves, faith to gather a tribe and try to make our own reality. Nobody gives you anything until you make them understand. That’s why we formed this team, to make people understand.”

Theres nothing like stepping onto this field and getting ready to play hard

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