Likely one of the most prevalent sports for active males today, paint balling has swept through America. Everyone knows at least one person who plays the sport. Perhaps you do, or your friend does, maybe your son, heck maybe you even know one of those daring ladies that engages in the grand sport.

Well if you don’t, why not?

No time to start like the present. But you will need gear. I couldn’t imagine playing a round of paintball with my paintball vest or my mask. Please don’t play without a mask, eye injuries are possible. Of course with a vest and a mask, you will be safe.

Of course, the main piece of gear in paintball is the gun. Its the piece that players pride themselves on most. There are some beautiful designs available. My personal favorite design replicates the M4 carbine.

There are several types of paintball events, and the two I find most interesting are the “woodsball” and the “scenario” syles of engagement.

Scenario ball tends to be massive in scale, and groups of people will often register together. Scenario tends to be re-enactments of famous battles, and each faction is given a task to accomplish. Perhaps the terrorist team must hold a given point, and the SWAT team must take that point, for example. Any number of possibilities exist in an organized scenario game.

Woodsball is an exciting twist to an already great game. The basic idea here is space, there is more stalking involved, as opposed to the “spray and pray” of the close quarters fight. Basically this uses military maneuvers to overcome your objectives. There are many ways to play this, but the basic element is the hunt, and the open space.

Ten million people paintball each year, you can make it ten million and one.