Paintball !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by DJ Balance | Filed under Activities
I’ve never been paintballing before so I brought up the idea to some of my coworkers. Within weeks, we had planned a Saturday in April where we can spend all day shooting each other. There were about 20 of us who showed up at the paintball field, (even Suzanne got down for the first few rounds). For those that have never been, let me tell you that it is a blast. There’s nothing like the adrenaline rush of running, crawling, and diving for cover while an opposing team attempts to light you up. At first I was scared of getting shot. I spent the entire first round trying to defend my post, but after I got shot from a few feet away, my fear was over. The pain lasted maybe 10 seconds. More than anything, getting shot just angered me. I kept thinking of who I was going to shoot in the next round, and the next round, and the next round…. Unfortunately, after about 3 hours of paintballing, I only managed to shoot one other person. We played a few scenario games, such as Capture The Flag, Blackjack VIP (attempting to assassinate the opposing team’s VIP, with only 21 paintballs loaded in your gun), and of course the standard Team vs. Team. My personal favorite was Zombie, and it works like this: One team starts off with a limited number of players, let’s say four. This team consisted of the best players on the field and they would be Zombies. Their mission is to infect the opposing team, who would be Humans. Infection would happen after they successfully shot a Human, where that Human would then be a part of the Zombie team. The game would end after all Humans killed the Zombies, or when the Zombies had infected all the Humans. I think we played three or four rounds of Zombie non-stop. After about 5 hours of play, we began to lose people because they had to leave and get ready for work (that’s the beauty of shift work). But it’s been a week since we played and already we’re starting to plan another paintball day. Hopefully we can get another one in before this Arizona summer hits us full force. I can’t wait to get back out there.
