| Paintball is a game played up of many players or | | | | high rate of speed. In a standard gun, the |
| teams. It can be played indoors or out, with as | | | | propulsion system is compressed gas such as |
| few as two people or as many as 500. Paintball is | | | | carbon dioxide, nitrogen or ordinary air and is |
| played at designated fields, back yards or even in | | | | stored in small or large tanks that can be |
| the woods. A game can last as little as 5 minutes | | | | attached to the gun. The paintball gun is also |
| or hours with all depending on one to take | | | | attached to a hopper, which holds the paintballs. |
| something, find something, or to just be the last | | | | Maintaining safety in paintball is important to |
| person not marked.Depending on the location of | | | | make the game safe. The power of paintball guns |
| where you play, the strategy of your game will | | | | is strictly regulated. Guns in play are adjusted so |
| vary from being quiet and sneaky and choosing | | | | that the maximum speed of the paintball is 300 |
| your shots carefully, to being loud, fast, and | | | | feet per second. A paintball traveling at this speed |
| shooting constantly. Paintball is a competitive sport | | | | is not likely to cause serious injury if it hits you, |
| played like any other competitive sport, to win. It | | | | though it will sting and can leave a bruise. Also, |
| is challenging game of tag, hide-and-seek or even | | | | since wind resistance starts slowing the paintball |
| capture-the-flag. Being you shoot at other people | | | | down as soon as it leaves the gun, it has a |
| and they shoot at you, paintball requires safety | | | | reduced impact when fired from a greater |
| equipment to be worn such as goggles, special | | | | distance. Speeding paintballs can cause serious |
| clothing and etc.An essential part of paintball is the | | | | injury to the eyes and paintball players always |
| paintball itself. As in tennis, the ball is the main | | | | wear protection.In addition to playing paintball for |
| element of a paintball game. But unlike a tennis | | | | recreational use, paintball is also part of military |
| game, paintball has dozens, often hundreds, of | | | | and police training. In terms of feel and handling, a |
| "balls" in play at any one time. As the name | | | | paintball gun has little in common with an actual |
| implies, these balls are actually tiny containers of | | | | firearm, but paintball is still good training for |
| paint.Paintballs have a really simple construction. | | | | combat situations. Mainly, it lets soldiers and police |
| They're actually a lot like bath-oil beads. They are | | | | practice strategy and the fine art of not getting |
| made of colored liquid enclosed in a gelatin shell | | | | shot.There are many paintball leagues around with |
| and are available in a variety of colors. Paintball are | | | | American Paintball League being one of the largest |
| also non-toxic, biodegradable and are water | | | | in the paintball industry. Another paintball league is |
| soluble.Basically, a paintball is like a small water | | | | the National Professional Paintball League. There |
| balloon, weighing only a few grams. The shell holds | | | | are the two main paintball leagues. Though they |
| up if you handle it or drop it from a short | | | | both pertain to paintball, each has their own set of |
| distance. When you shoot a paintball from a gun, | | | | rules for playing the sport.Jeffrey Jones writes |
| however, it bursts on impact and leaves large | | | | about paintball and paintball guns. See for more |
| splatter of paint.The job of the paintball gun, or as | | | | information. |
| many call a marker, is to shoot the paintball at a | | | | |