Chris Schneck

If you look online for them, you can find them. Those damn statistics that say paintball is THE safest thing you can do, even safer then bowling? I personally find that hard to believe.

Google it, and read safety bulletins.

What I can believe is that regardless of the sport there are risk factors inherit to each sport that will ultimately lead to someone becoming a statistic. Here are a few reasons why paintball is safer then other sports.

•  Wearing protection, like a mask,  is mandatory.
• There is no physical contact in paintball, unless accidental.
• We aren’t sitting on anything motorized, with or without a seat belt.
• We don’t carry a stick, bat or racket.

So whats my point? Well I think paintball is too safe, so safe that its not playing to our natural morbid interests. Take NASCAR for example, have you ever watched a race for the race or are you watching for the 200mph flaming pile up!

I think we as paintballers need to man up and pad our stats some more to be more in line with the popular mainstream sports of today. I propose we all ride quad ATV’s, in two man teams, and everyone has a cricket bat for melee combat as a backup in case their marker goes down. Bunkers will be abolished as the entire field will be a motocross track, the objective of the match will be to be the last two man team still on their ATV.

Now who wouldn’t watch that on FOX sports.

Tags: "fox sports", "melee combat", nascar, Paintball, safety, statistics

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