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Off-Label Use Paintball equipment is designed for the sport of paintball, but that doesn't mean that it can't be used for other, useful, things, too. Check out some of the unique ways paintball equipment can be used and feel free to add any more that you know of in the comments. Keep in mind, this is a list of legitimate, useful things - nothing illegal, cruel or overly-childish.Off-Label Use originally appeared on About.com Paintball on Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 at 17:29:22.Permalink | Comment | Email this paintball.about.com |
Luck Wins Out Excelling at paintball takes a combination of practice, skill, talent and luck. Not everybody has time to practice to develop the requisite skill and even fewer have the innate talent to really be the best. But for one game, everybody, from the professional paintballer to the first-day novice, can have the luck they need to win.My favorite example of luck is the run-through. When you're down numbers and you are out of options, just run and see what happens. I've played games of base capture where I was all that was left on my team and so I ran. The typical result is that I end up getting hit in record time and the game is over (as you would expect), but there have been games where luck was with me. I remember one time where I was down four players to one and I was not in a good position to run for the flag. The opposing team, though, was more interested in shooting me than moving in on my flag so I had a second to roll the dice with lady luck. I internally counted to three and started firing like mad from around a bunker and I got the other team to duck their heads for just a second. I dropped my gun and took off running through the trees in an indirect path to the flag. I could hear paintballs whizzing past me, hitting trees and one bounced off of my leg as I grabbed the flag. In my few seconds of running there were probably close to a hundred shots fired at me by four different players, but somehow, luck lead me to victory.Luck, though, is a very fickle mistress. For all of the stories I have where I was down big and somehow won, I have many, many more about what usually happens - I start to run and within two seconds I've been hit half a dozen times from multiple directions. Those times where I defied the odds, though, keep me asking for luck to lend me a hand.Luck Wins Out originally appeared on About.com Paintball on Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 at 09:16:54.Permalink | Comment | Email this paintball.about.com |
Is Smart Parts Going Out of Business? For about a week now there's been a rumor going around that Smart Parts will be closing its doors at the end of the year. Similar rumors have popped up in the past, especially when they laid off numerous employees earlier this year. Previously, though, Smart Parts released an official statement that discounted the rumors, but nothing has come up this time and store owners report an inability to order products. If Smart Parts has an official statement to make about the status of their company, I'd be happy to publish it - just contact me.Whether or not Smart Parts is dying, the fact that the rumor seems so plausible is just another indication of the current troubles of the paintball industry. A few years ago it would have been unthinkable for one of the largest and longest-lived paintball companies to close its doors, but now I almost expect a major manufacturer to announce plans to end its operations. When Smart Parts released the Ion a few years ago, it really was at the top of the paintball world. Of course, at that time, GM was also still the world's largest auto producer. Times have changed.Is Smart Parts Going Out of Business? originally appeared on About.com Paintball on Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 at 13:53:40.Permalink | Comment | Email this paintball.about.com |