The Paintball Blog

If you want to be a good paintball player, you should have the ability to spot your opponents immediately before they get a chance to spot you. This means that the type of mask you choose will be very important.

The referee won't allow you to enter the playing field if you don't have a mask. The mask will serve as your face's protection. It shields your eyes from the splat of the paint.

You have to ensure that your mask is of good quality. It should not affect your vision and most especially, the mask shouldn't fog up.

Fogging is a real problem with a single-pane lens. Most cheap paintball masks use this type of lens. Even if the manufacturer claims that the mask has fog protection, it will only work on the first two games but on the succeeding games, your mask will definitely fog up and start to hinder your vision. (more...)

The VForce Profiler Paintball Mask stands to be one of the more advanced innovations in paintball safety equipment when quality is an issue.

With a 290 degree of vision, and designed for ease of operation,  the VForce Profiler Paintball Mask has two visors, a lens switching system and comes with a mask bag, making it easy to carry around.

Providing overall protection in the event of a paintball hitting the face area, the VForce Profiler Paintball Mask is made of hard plastic with a softer material used for the chin, sides and nosepiece, snugly and comfortably fitting to the skin without being too tight and causing constriction. (more...)

Although the very popular sport of paintball, often referred to as "war games", is sometimes seen to be dangerous, the introduction of the use of safety equipment has successfully decreased the risk of injury.

The main aim of the game is to mark your opponents with paintballs which are propelled from paintball markers or guns. Once a player is marked, he/she is eliminated from the game.

Taking possession of the opposing team's flag or marking the other team's "General" are additional objectives of the game.

Paintball is an equipment based game and the minimum gear required to play includes such items as compressed air powered guns, paintballs which are used as ammunition, and eye protection in the event of players being hit in the eyes by the paintball. (more...)

Paintball is getting a lot more popular. As many as ten million people in the United States are playing this competitive game. One of the things that makes it so popular is that paintball is easy to play.

At its most basic, paintball is just trying to put other players out of the game by marking them with paint. However, there are a lot of variations on the game, besides the simplest version.

You can also play games where you're trying to capture or eliminate the general of the opposing team, or a version of capture the flag.

To play paintball, you do require some equipment. Paintball guns, which operate on compressed air or carbon dioxide and can propel paintballs through the air as fast as three hundred feet per second, are vital. (more...)