| Two different paintball stores were recently | | | | Paintball Sports, near Frederick Maryland,was next in |
| interviewed by me. One of the Paintball stores is | | | | line. Torrid Paintball Sports is a Paintball and air gun |
| located in Central Pennsylvania and the other Paintball | | | | store. Paintball fields or Paintball woods are not owned |
| store is located in Maryland. Reason for these | | | | by them. They partner with a farmer 10 miles away |
| interviews stemmed from the curiosity in how they are | | | | from the store. The store will provide private catered |
| being affected by the economy. | | | | events for the players. They cater birthday groups, |
| The first Paintball Store, Wanna Play Paintball, in | | | | corporate groups, bachelor parties or any special |
| Pennsylvania was started in 1998. Being established for | | | | event. The players are provided with lunch. This is |
| a long time could let me know how the Paintball world, | | | | important because the players do not have to |
| Paintball gun, and Paintball equipment is fairing in this | | | | scramble to buy lunch. |
| economy. This paintball store also has fields and wood | | | | When asked about the economy the clerk answered |
| play. The person interviewed told me the economy | | | | they have been very busy and the summer heat is |
| has not really interfered with the players ability to be | | | | slowing business. He told me the big season for |
| able to enjoy their favorite sport. Summer heat has | | | | paintball is early fall into early winter and spring. Since |
| slowed paintball more than the economy. | | | | players play on a field the name of this type of |
| Most popular form of play at Wanna Play is the | | | | Paintball is known as Speed Paintball. Southern |
| woods player. They are known as woodsballers. The | | | | California is the Mecca for Speed Paintball. |
| woods players dresses in camouflage and his Paintball | | | | Tournaments play the Speed Paintball style of play. |
| gun and Paintball gear are camouflaged as well. The | | | | There are hundreds of organized college and |
| players do not want to be seen. This is the military | | | | university teams playing each other in tournaments. |
| version of the game Paintball. The field is popular but | | | | This year's winner is Drexel University, Philadelphia, in |
| not nearly as popular as the woods. Since all the | | | | Division A. This is great because being from a suburb |
| woodballers are in camouflaged, the only way to tell | | | | near Philly I support anything Philly in the sports arena. |
| them apart is by the colored ribbons they place on the | | | | Speed paintball is played on a field with an even |
| barrels of their Paintball rifles or Paintball guns. When | | | | amount of players on each side. In 2007, at World Cup, |
| asked which Paintball gun is the best seller, he replied | | | | at Disney's Wide World Sports there were over |
| sales of both the hopper and the paintball marker are | | | | 35,000 viewers and it featured 373 teams playing |
| about the same. | | | | Speed Paintball. These teams were comprised of the |
| The person being interviewed pointed out to me the | | | | professional speed paintball leagues. Compared to the |
| favorite Paintball game, woods or field. largely depends | | | | camouflaged woodsballer with their camouflaged |
| on the location of the players. That is if the player lives | | | | paintball makers and paintball gear, the speed |
| in the mountains or wooded areas wood play is | | | | paintballer wears brightly colored shirts and pants. |
| favored. If the player lives in cities or non-wooded | | | | Spotting a team mate or the opposition is not hard to |
| areas the field arena is well liked. | | | | do. |
| Since the area, in Pennsylvania, Wanna Play Paintball is | | | | With all the action and popularity of the sport of |
| located in a woody hilly region. Next on my agenda to | | | | Paintball it can be concluded that so far Paintball is still |
| be interviewed was a flat terrain area. So Torrid | | | | King. |