| Paintball players love to play. They go out year-round | | | | can buy paintball grenades and paintball mines. These |
| in even the worst of weather conditions for the | | | | grenades are thrown weapons that will spread the |
| privilege of having paintballs shot at them. The process | | | | paint out over a certain area. The mines will have the |
| works in reverse because each player has his own | | | | same effect, but they are often pressure-activated. |
| marker that lets him shoot the markers at the other | | | | When a person steps on the area above the mine, the |
| players. The markers are paintballs loaded with | | | | paint gets sprayed into the air. The mine will hit any |
| different colors. A person who gets shot is out of the | | | | people near it when it goes off. The mines are one |
| game. | | | | way to add difficulty to a capture the flag style of |
| The sport goes on just the desire to spend some time | | | | game. |
| out doors. A player also wants to test his | | | | Businesses that run paintball competitions seldom use |
| marksmanship skills, his ability to dodge the shots of | | | | these methods, as most people would rather not be |
| others and see just how stealthy he can be. Even the | | | | exposed to these hazards, even if these paintball |
| chance of being shot at with another person's paintball | | | | grenades and mines usually hurt less than a ball from a |
| gun is not enough for some hard core players. They | | | | paintball gun usually does. A person can find all the |
| want the game to resemble an actual battlefield as | | | | necessary goods he needs to play paintball online. |
| much as possible. The chances of someone getting | | | | Many rural areas even have fields dedicated to the |
| killed on one of these imitation fields of battle are much | | | | sport. If competitors do not want to look for areas to |
| smaller than it would be in a real war. Each team in a | | | | play paintball on the Internet, a local sporting goods |
| match will have its own colors assigned to it. A player | | | | store will probably be able to clue people in about |
| is out of the game even if the shot comes from the | | | | nearby fields. |
| member of his own team. | | | | The sport of paintball also works as a training exercise |
| If the teams agree to increase the risks of players | | | | for military members, where it most likely started, or |
| getting eliminated through other equipment, the players | | | | can just be a fun way to spend an afternoon. |