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The Mythbusters Build a Paintball Gun with 1,100 Barrels The Mythbusters (Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage) recently created a paintball gun with 1,100 barrels to demonstrate the differences between a traditional CPU and a GPU at nVidia's NVISION show.... paintball.about.com |
Paintball Video For School 68 Caliber has a video featuring the Cal State Northride paintball team. It's a simple video, but it's a great summary of the sport and a good introduction for people who's never played. Plus, what better school project is there than working on paintball?Paintball Video For School originally appeared on About.com Paintball on Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at 18:40:58.Permalink | Comment | Email this paintball.about.com |
How Much Should A Paintball Gun Cost? Many paintball players complain that the cost of guns and equipment is simply too high. Store owners, though, complain that they are not high enough and the small profit margins are forcing fields and shops to close. The manufacturers, though, don't seem to be making a killing, but they're still going forward. The end result is that the sellers think prices are too low, buyers think they're too high and manufacturers (at least those that are still in business), think they're about right.My question for the players, then, is what is the right price for a paintball gun and what do you realistically want to get for your money? Do you have an idea of what a fair price is for equipment and what is it? I know this will vary by the type of gun, but, in general, do you think the price of guns is fair or is it too high?How Much Should A Paintball Gun Cost? originally appeared on About.com Paintball on Saturday, December 19th, 2009 at 22:17:37.Permalink | Comment | Email this paintball.about.com |
Where Can Paintball Improve? While following the sport of paintball, I've often wondered where the sport really needs to improve. Is it the cost? The difficulty in recruiting new players? The inherent differences between speedballers and woodsballers? The lack of media coverage?I'm very interested in ideas that my readers have, but I will also share some of my own thoughts.I think that paintball has done a fair job of making itself known, but I think a big problem is lack of advertising. I'm well aware that most fields don't have a huge advertising budget and manufacturers are dealing with tough economic times, but millions of people have no idea what paintball really is. Whenever I bring up paintball in a larger group I'm amazed at how little the general population knows about the sport - anything from not knowing that paintball players wear goggles to thinking paintballs are shot with gunpowder. The public needs to be educated and advertising seems to me to be the best way to do that.Another area where paintball can improve is to better serve the market. The simple truth is that piantball can be very expensive to play and the primary players are teenagers and young adults who lack expendable income. As I've mentioned before, unless paintball is the #1 priority, many college-aged players simply can't afford to play it on a regular basis. I'm not sure how to improve this as field owners really can't charge much less for entry fees, but a larger emphasis could be placed on outlaw fields and home-built courses coupled with competitive pump-play or capped rates of fire to save on paint. I've known a number of people who simply couldn't afford to continue to play the sport and have "retired" for a number of years before taking up the game again once they found a better-paying job.A final area where paintball can improve is to put more research money into lower-end equipment. While I will gladly admit that the Ego 10 is superior to the Ego 9, there are relatively very few players who buy top-end guns every year - it's time for some of Planet Eclipse's innovations to trickle down to sub-$200 market. More effort needs to be spent improving the Wal-Mart guns that the majority of paintball players start with. When a player first starts out, a reliable, simple-to-care-for paintball gun will hook them more than anything else. While I've been impressed with the improvements in manufacturing of low-end gear over the past few years (especially Spyder guns), it still needs to get better. When I suggest which gun a parent should buy for a child, I really want to be confident that the gun will work well the first time it's used and still be simple enough to be cleaned and maintained by an 8th grader (Tippmann, I'm looking at you). So far, reliability and simplicity don't go hand-in-hand with all of the low-end gear and mass production has lead to too many low-end lemons.Paintball is doing okay, but it could be doing better. Remember, there are manufacturers and important leaders in the industry who read this blog, including your comments, so now's your turn to share where you think paintball can improve.Where Can Paintball Improve? originally appeared on About.com Paintball on Thursday, January 21st, 2010 at 12:56:37.Permalink | Comment | Email this paintball.about.com |