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The People I Admire Least Paintball news can be pretty frustrating. Rather than focus on the pros of the sport, most media coverage is still based on the negative - primarily acts of vandalism and mischief. Whenever I go to a news reader and search for paintball the primary stories are not about the results of tournaments, the camaraderie of teams or individual experiences playing the game, it's about stupid people messing around and causing problems. I'd count how many negative stories come for every positive one, but I'm sure I'd get depressed doing the math.Paintball is a very constructive activity and the world should know about it. For some reason though, too many boneheads drop all common sense whenever they pick up a paintball gun. It's frustrating and it's not helping the sport grow. Unfortunately, when all somebody knows about paintball is that they got shot in their car while driving home they often don't have any desire to try the game or learn more about it. I can't say that I blame them.The People I Admire Least originally appeared on About.com Paintball on Monday, November 9th, 2009 at 18:05:16.Permalink | Comment | Email this paintball.about.com |
The Brand for Beginners I frequently get asked which brand of paintball gun a beginner should buy. While it always depends on the individual person and the situation, I do have a general answer. After talking about paintball.about.com |
Paintball Predictions for 2010 You never know what a new year will bring, but that doesn't mean it's not fun to guess. In this column I will make five predictions on what will happen in paintball during 2010. I'm not going to make any predictions based on insider knowledge (those wouldn't be true predictions) - each of these predictions is based on gut feelings and hopeful speculation. In a year, we'll see how I did.A new $1000+ paintball gun will hit the marker by a new manufacturer. The existing super high-end gun manufacturers haven't changed much in the past few years and it's about time for someone to step up (especially if Smart Parts is out of the equation).68 caliber will still be the standard. I predict that 50 caliber will come and be adopted by some people in some circumstances, but it will be a passing fad that doesn't catch on with the larger community. I personally hope that it is as good as its backers claim, but my gut feeling is that it will disappoint and not catch on.A major community will ban paintball because of fears that it is used to train terrorists. This could be a major American city, but my hunch is that it will be an entire country. Germany failed to ban paintball in 2009, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if another country succeeds in banning it for completely illegitimate reasons.No monthly or semi-monthly print paintball magazines will remain. The print media industry has been struggling and many magazines are going to online-only versions. I will be surprised if there's still a print paintball magazine that comes out more than quarterly by 2011.Paintballs will cost about the same. There have been many discussions about the price of paintballs and whether higher prices are coming to combat fuel costs and to provide store owners with better returns, but my prediction is that a $40 case of paint today will cost about $40 next year. I wouldn't be surprised, though, if more expensive paint does increase a little bit - such as paying $70 for a case of paint you can currently get for $60.Well, those are my predictions. We'll see if any of them come to pass in just 365 short days. If you want to add any of your own predictions or you disagree with mine, feel free to post in the comments.Paintball Predictions for 2010 originally appeared on About.com Paintball on Thursday, December 31st, 2009 at 14:25:16.Permalink | Comment | Email this paintball.about.com |