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Trolling the Forums When I first started playing paintball in the late '90s, I was introduced to a group of players who literally taught me the game. Their paintball knowledge in turn came from other players at local fields, store owners and random players they'd met while playing the sport. Getting a valuable tidbit of paintball knowledge usually required listening to more experienced players for seemingly hours on end. There was no central hub for paintball and it was common to receive contradictory information literally from one day to the next.With the advent of the internet, paintball finally found a centralized location to share information. Rather than having these stories shared only between a handful of players in the staging area of a local field, these same conversations have now been immortalized on the internet in printed form. Now a curious player has literally millions of threads to read about literally every aspect of the sport. Whether its rumors, debates about guns, questions on tinkering or simply sharing stories of games played, paintball forums make it so beginning players can immerse themselves in the world of paintball without leaving their own home.There are dozens of paintball-centric forums around the web that cover the whole sport or even focus on smaller aspects of it such as one brand of paintball gun. The largest include PBNation.com and mcareterbrown.com while one of my personal personal favorites is automags.org. These forums are a great resource to ask questions and learn from more experienced players, but the archived threads are a treasure of information. The information still must be gleaned as you read through countless inane comments, but useful information is almost always there to find.Trolling the Forums originally appeared on About.com Paintball on Wednesday, July 21st, 2010 at 23:26:47.Permalink | Comment | Email this paintball.about.com |
A Water Based Paintball? Anyone who has leaned into a bunker that has been shot at all day and ends up with half their body dripping in oil can relate to the complaint that oil-based paintballs can get too messy. Oily paint smears on goggles, sticks to clothes, permanently coats obstacles and makes AstroTurf feel like an ice-skating rink. The simple solution to this oily mess is to create a water-based paint. Unfortunately, the gelatin used to make the shells simply doesn't mix well with water-based paints.Rumor has it, though, that a new company - HydroTec Paintball - is coming out with a water-based paintball. The company plans on debuting the paint early this fall and claims its product will help to "reinvigorate the industry." I'm somewhat skeptical that any paintball improvement (other than free or nearly-free paintballs) will reinvigorate the industry, but I am interested in whether a water-based paintball will actually work better than the traditional oil-based variety. The worst-case scenario is that the paintballs are awful and everyone keeps using the paint they currently shoot, but the best-case scenario means a cheaper, better paintball might be on the horizon. I'm excited to find out.A Water Based Paintball? originally appeared on About.com Paintball on Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 at 22:34:02.Permalink | Comment | Email this paintball.about.com |