The Playing Of Paintball

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.