If you want a blast of adrenaline racing through your body, Paintball is absolutely for you!

Against popular belief, Paintball is truly an entertaining sport and hobby that does not incite children or adults to commit acts of violence.

Fact is, it has the exact opposite effect!

A great deal of teamwork and communication is needed to be able to win the game.

Here’s a basic rundown on paintball:

In a normal Paintball game, the players, split up into teams, are either in the wilderness or in an arena. Realistically, the game is very similar to laser tag, although there are rather important differences in the rules.

Depending on the kind of Paintball tournament or game you may enter, there may be several requirements for any team to win the game.

One version of Paintball is a “capture the flag” game, where one team must successfully get the enemy flag and return it to their own base without taking a hit in the process.

A second common version of Paintball is a “mass kill” game. The last team with “live” players standing is the winner.

Now that you have a basic idea of what the end-goal of Paintball is, there are some very important rules you should know before considering playing the sport.

Like many sports, Paintball is a perfectly safe game IF you follow the rules.

The most important of the basic rules for Paintball is to NEVER, EVER, EVER remove your safety mask while in the playing field.

The most dangerous thing about Paintball is being hit with a Paintball in the eye. A pair of goggles, and this danger is completely eliminated. Aside from potential eye injuries, there is very little risk to Paintball.

In addition to wearing the proper equipment, you must learn how to properly take care of your Paintball gun.

These guns, while different from a true firearm, do require a lot of cleaning and care. For the basic beginner, a cheap gun is better than a professional tournament quality weapon. With the cheap gun, you will learn how to clean your gun, care for you gun, and fix your gun without fearing how much damage you can do to the more expensive tournament gun.

When you can clean, care and fix your own gun in your sleep, and you have played in tournaments, then a tournament gun might be a good idea. Until then, it is highly suggested to take the cheaper road and get a gun you can grow out of as you mature as a Paintball player.

Well, this is just a little crash course to paintball, but if you look around you should find some more useful info on paintball from paintball guns to paintball tactics.