Fastecho419

Dear Paintball Community:


I am a young paintballer with a lot to learn about the sport. I’ve loved it since last year and just this week, I saw a paintball tournament from back in 1995 on my computer. It was the Ironmen against the Totally Americans. When I watched that I was totally absorbed by it, I couldn’t believe what I was actually seeing! A real paintball tourney that they used to have! Not a speedball tourney for the world championship, but a woodsball game for the world championship! I almost thought it was untrue, how could it bee like that? All we know today is that woodsball is just something that recreational ballers play. Not what the pro’s play on.


I have realized that we in the paintball world have no clue (Apart from the old school paintballers) what the real strategic way to play paintball is. I mean, no offense to speedball but all it mostly has in it is two teams with high-powered markers shooting at each other with no strategy at all. It’s a game of: Whoever has the best marker and fastest marker wins.

Why do you think we have electrical hoppers now and double finger triggers? Because it’s for speedball, not for woodsball, before woodsball used to be the main event to play in. But now as we progress into the later years we have begun to forget what our roots are. I may have not known paintball for long as others but I for one believe that the strategy of tourney’s in the woods is much more fulfilling than playing a tourney in an open, air bunker area.


You all are probably getting tired of reading my entire letter about how paintball should be turned back to normal and such. So I’ll close this up fast, but before I do I want you all to know something that I hope will stay with you. Please try to keep the woodsball tourney’s alive, that’s where paintball came from, I think that’s where we should go back to. We’ve become engulfed in speedball and fast games when the fun games are the long ones. The ones that take up time but have more umph into them are the ones you remember. But that’s just my opinion and about 30 paintballers I have talked to about it.



Your Friend,
Fastecho419


P.S. Think about it.

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