http://www.osgpaintball.com/about.html
The following is from the above link:
PARENTS AND PAINTBALL
Parents may be worried about paintball's image. Their children may have expressed an interest in the game, but there are two things that work against the sport:
We carry "guns"; and We "shoot" each other.
On the surface, without further investigation, anyone would NATURALLY see paintball as teaching the wrong values to young people. However, as you will see, paintball teaches kids some very important "life skills".
IMPORTANT LESSONS PAINTBALL TEACHES KIDS SAFETY
First and foremost it teaches safety. Players MUST wear their goggles and they MUST use barrel plugs. They must treat the paintmarker with respect. They learn that safety is important, not just to protect themselves, but to protect others. A lapse in safety can cause field staff to keep the offending player out of a few games. Habitual unsafe practices will get that player ejected from the field.
((OSG is a local field of mine.))
parents and pb
Use IT!
