Archive for October, 2008
Types of Paintball Games
Sunday, October 26th, 2008Basic Variations
Capture the Flag is where a team is tasked to steal or take the flag from the rival’s flag station and bring this flag to their own station. The tea who first successfully takes or steals its opponent’s flag wins.
Elimination is another basic variation where the task of the team is to tag or [...]
comments off admin | Essentials |
Regulations or Rules of the Game
Sunday, October 26th, 2008Below are basic and common rules of the game. The rules given below may be altered or may adapt variation depending on the organizers of a paintball tournament where a player is joining.
Equipments
Goggle System refers to the use of the mask which is the most important equipment for safety of the players. The [...]
comments off admin | Essentials |
What is Paintball?
Sunday, October 26th, 2008Paintball is a sport played either indoors or outdoors. Paintball entails the players or combatants to use markers (term for compressed air guns) to shoot paintballs (a marble- sized, .68 caliber, gelatin capsules that contain colored polyethylene glycol paint) at their rival players. This in the same way a tag game because players [...]
comments off admin | Essentials |
Paintball Marker
Sunday, October 26th, 2008The paintball marker is the basic equipment used in the game. This is a gun- like device that is used to mark the opponents. Instead of using bullets for ammunition, a marker uses paint that is enforced or pushed by a speedy expanding gas through a barrel. The standard maximum velocity of [...]
comments off admin | Equipments |
Hoppers or Loaders
Sunday, October 26th, 2008The two main style of holding pantballs for the marker to fire are the hoppers and the loaders.
The hoppers are the more conventional menas of supplying paint to the marker. The simplest and ordinary of the hoppers is a simple black shell on the back for the filling of the hopper. It [...]
comments off admin | Equipments |
Paintballs
Sunday, October 26th, 2008The round/ circular capsule that contains polyethylene glycol and dye is the paintball. These paintballs are used as ammunition fired by the markers to tag an opponent. Paint contained in these paintballs can be easily wached out and leaves no significant stains.
Usual paintballs and markers are regarded as .68 caliber, but some are [...]
comments off admin | Equipments |
Tippmann 98 custom
Sunday, October 26th, 2008The Tippmann 98 Custom, produced by the pneumatics company Tippmann, is an open- lock blowback paintball marker. It is the most well-liked paintball marker that is why it has the most varied aftermarket parts offered. The 98 Custom is the descendant of the Model 98. The 98 Custom is regarded by most paintball players to [...]
comments off admin | Tippmann Paintball Gun |
A-5 Paintball Marker
Sunday, October 26th, 2008The A-5 is a semi- mechanized pneumatic paintball marker designed and produced by Tippmann. Its initial release was in 2002 in the USA. It makes use of an innovative latest loading model called the “Cyclone Feed System†which facilitates the marker to have a high speed of fire disregarding the inclusion of the aftermarket triggers [...]
comments off admin | Tippmann Paintball Gun |
Masks
Sunday, October 26th, 2008The goggles or the masks are safety devices required for the players to wear. This mask covers and protects the players eyes, mouth, ears, and nostrils. Some sophisticated masks even cover the throat. This goggle system particularly that of which protecting the eyes, is designed to protect the eyes from a paintball that [...]
comments off admin | Equipments |
A-5 Tippmann ( Part 2 )
Sunday, October 26th, 2008This is the part 2 of this A-5 Paintball Marker article
Flatline Barrel System
The Flatline barrel is a coiled paintball barrel. The trivial shape of an “S” curving with an approximately sharpened at the outside of some points in the barrel forms a backspin on the ball which augments its scope by 100 feet greater [...]
comments off admin | Tippmann Paintball Gun |