Advice

I'm sorry but 5 is to young to be playing paintball.

I see parents and people bringing younger and younger kids to play at my field and its just wrong, most of these kids are all gung ho and having a great time UNTILL they get hit with a paintball, then they start crying and screaming, and the refs call the game because they think someone is seriously injured, then when they find out it was just the little kid crying cause he got hit, they tell everyone else that if they don't "take it easy on the kid" they will kick people out of the games.

Personally i feel that 12 should be a minimum age to play, but that's just me.

Maybe around 10 or so, but that depends a lot on the kid too ,if you bring him too early , and he gets bunkered , say, He gonna form a Very negative opinion of the game , on the other hand,if He's a little Bruiser , and Loves the rough stuff , maybe 10 would be just fine .

 As for getting your GF to give her permission , get them used to watching the sport a bit , and guage her reactions before doing much , Never try to convince a woman of ANYTHING !! , let them convince themselves , lol . Youve got a couple years to warm them up to it at least . Diamonds, roses , and chocolates cant hurt, LOL (Please use with caution , may cause unintended side effects )

lol thanks minion I have taped a few shows on Spike TV for Michelle to watch so i hope.  I have been trying to get her to play.  But That was a big FAT NO!!!!!!!!!!  As for the boy he is a moma's boy so sence she has gotten the divorce her husban never did anything with him so i have been trying to get him doing things more Boyish ya know.

i agree with shadowminion 100%. some kids are just too young  to play paintball cause they cant take the pain. and its not even that bad. im relatively small and i dont have a problem with them. they only hurt for like 5 seconds or maybe 10 seconds. i'd say about 10 and you better be pretty tough.

when he gets older have him shoot take him out to the woods and play in the dirt toughin him uop

My 5 year old grandson, loves to shoot at a bucket in the backyard.   aims really well too. I took him out to the field once. He had a grand time playing until he got shot from behind. It takes a lot of supervision, and you might as well plan on not playing yourself, just follow him around.

He will get hit and take his mask off. So don't leave him unattended while playing.

My grandson, did real well judging by the bruises, he got hit several times, but, it was when someone snuck around and suprised him that he couldn't handle it. No mercy, just don't let anyone bunker him. It's not the getting hit with a paintball, It's the intensity of the moment that scares the crap out of them and they are not emotionally stable enough to handle the suprise.

I have seen 12 year olds cry like a baby and not want to play anymore, so truly a good age to play is more like 18. So where do you draw the line?   Your call.

Take him out, have some fun, just give him 100% supervision.

This past Sunday, I was out and I beleive a 5 year old and maybe a seven year old was bought along with their father.

The five year old never played, just randomly shoot peoples markers, but the seven year old played a one on one match against his mother. He didnt want to play against the rest of us as a group because the number of people there was more then he'd ever played against.

I agree, it all depends on the kid.

Definaly depends on the kid all the way to the moon man.

probally around 10 in my opinion and thats mainly cause of rules most kids under that age dont seem to understand you cant do this and dont do that they do it anyway he may be able to take paintball hits at 7 or so and dish them out but playing fair may be a little challenge so id just wait till hes around 10 if its speedball just get him a little cheapy gun dunno if he will like it you could go with a really cheap spyder basic gun somethin like that

Yeash! I saw one of those games! They sell it at Target- it looks like a spyder clone, and you just plug into into the telly and you "play" paintball." There's also upgrades and different guns you can get on the game.