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History of Paintball

Paintball was invented in 1981 by a Wall Street Stock Trader and an Outdoors Man when they got into a debate and decided to use paint guns from a farm catalouge to settle it. They gathered 10 more people and had the first game of Paintball!

Equipment

The basic gear for Paintball is simple.
-A Paintball Marker
-Paintballs
-Protective gear

Gamemodes

There are 3 different main ways to play Paintball
=Speedball: Flat and open field with manmade obstacles.
=Woodsball: Paintball done outdoors and typically in the woods. natural terrain and defenses.
=Scenario: Paintball with a theme, typically involves LARP (Live Action Role Play).
There is much more that im leaving out but they can be found at the wikipedia link (located in the History of Paintball section

Images

Speedball

Woodsball

Fun Facts

• The Winner of the first Paintball game won without firing a single shot!
• The largest ever Paintball event had over 4,000 players!
• Paintballs arent actually made of paint!
• You can eat a Paintball but they taste horrible
• In 2006, Paintball was the 3rd most popular extreme sport!
• Paintball is played in over 100 countries and on 6 continents
• Paintballs can travel up to 200 miles per hour!
• Paintball technology is used by military and law enforcment
• while paintball as a sport and game was invented in 1981, the "Markers" were created in the 1970s
• Paintball can be safer than Golf, Tennis, and Swimming!
• The first professional Paintball Team was created in 1992