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Building a Paintball Field

Basic Overview of Paintball

• Paintball is now the 3rd largest extreme sport.
• Paintball became more popular than snowboarding last year.
• There are two types of field. They are Woodsball and Speedball.
• Woodsball is played in the woods, and speedball is played in a field with different objects to hide behind (bunkers).
• The most common objective is to caputre a flag.
• There are two teams in each game, and in each game they compete against each other.
• You eliminate someone by shooting them with a paintball that is projected from a paintball marker.
• As dangerous as this sounds, it is actually very safe.

  Safety

• Paintball is one of the safest sports.
• Paintball's injury rating is .24 people out of 1000 people.
• That means that for every 1000 people that play paintball, a fourth of a person is injured.
• The most common injuries are a twisted ankle or bruised knee.
• Here are the results from the study:

  Sport Yearly injuries per 1000 Participants
  Water Skiing 260.84
  Lacrosse 223.79
  Wrestling 36.46
  Rugby 31.21
  Football 30.17
  Baseball 28.42
  Hockey 21.92
  Basketball 19.76
  Soccer 12.59
  Boxing 11.34
  Bicycle Riding 11.71
  Gymnastics 10.49
  Volleyball 4.03
  Ice Skating 3.83
  Snowmobiling 3.52
  Snow Skiing 2.99
  Racquetball 2.77
  Tennis 2.77
  Handball 1.92
  Fishing 1.43
  Swimming 1.34
  Golf 1.22
  Archery 0.85
  Boating 0.75
  Bowling 0.47
  Paintball 0.24
  

  
  

  Physcial Fitness

• In the game of paintball, you are constantly moving, running, climbing, diving, etc.
• It is a very good physical workout, and burns as many calories as a long jog.
  

  Marker Treatment

• Paintball does use pressurized markers resemble guns, and they are legally classified as guns.
• The Markers use CO2 or Nitrogen to propell a paintball at approxmatly 300 feet per second.
• Speeds set at anywhere between 260-300 feet per second are perfectly safe.
• At fields and at home kids and adults are taught how to properly maintain and treat their paintball marker.
• The proper use of a paintball marker leads to safe handeling and use of a real firearm.
• In all my years, have never heard of anybody that has played paintball turning into a killer.