paint ball in the olimpics

ncbbh88 wrote: but what about hockey   soccer ? they all have different equipment     the gun dosent make the player

Regulation sticks I am sure(Though I do not know for certain). Regulation puck. Regulation Net.

Uniforms are different yes.

im a hockey player the only regulation is that you are wearing certian equipment i.e helmet with mask mouth guard neck guard cup gloves pants shoulder pads elbow pads shinpads skates and have a stick   all of them must be certified but besides that you can have whatever brand you choose in any material just look at one of the stores online   there are hundreds of thousands of types of sticks skates ect.

   in paintball you can set the same guidelines   pants mask harness   gun with hopper tank and a regulation on barrel size limt and velocity setting mabey paint     its not like it's a farfetched idea to have pb in the olympics just a few small guidelines need to be set like in any other sport

unfortunatley i dont think woodsball could have a place in the olympics unless the teams from each country were comprised of military personel so uniforms would be clearly different  but then each country could use an A-5 with different opsgear mods on it   russian team Ak-47 mod    u.s m4ai/m16 203 mod?

well its time to pwn some people

first off, curling takes alot of skill.  If u ever wacthed it they just do sweep ice they do it very fast and in certain directions, not everyone can sweep ice to make a gaint puck move directions.  I know i certianly cant.

The reason football isnt it is not in it, is not because no one would wacth it, simply footballt takes to long.  In the season they dont take week breaks for fun, in a game u give it all and hurt yourself so much that u need a week to recover, and if they had all the countries by the time there half way done the olympics are over.

Paintball is not dying out dude, there are plenty of well made expensive markers, ever here of angels, bushmaster, most cockers and plenty of other guns.  Some are cheap others arnet.  You just sound like your mad that the guns are to fast.  After 30 years and its still growing i doubt it would die out cause of a few cheap guns.  cough sp guns cough

Paintball is NOT ready for the olympics for some simple reasons.

1.  In other sports players yell out at each other, but u dont see baseball players throwing there bat on the ground and throwing a little temper tamtrome(sp?) every time they strick out.  Pro Paintballl's are little babies and they need to be more mature before the sport is even close to olympic ready.

2. Also cheating is very rampant in paintball.  First off they need to get the guns to stop bounceing and everything, they need to regualte the guns and what i mean by that is the team gives the nppl for expample three sets of guns a main one and 2 backups.  Then the nppl checks it for bounce and once its elimated the nppl holds on to the guns and lock them so that the "babies" cant mess around with them.  After they do something like that were almost there.

They have to get rip of wipping and i know how to solve it.  You add more refs but also tons of cameras postioned around the field, that send it to a room with peopel wacthing it and when a player wipes they tell the ref to pull them.  After that and once paintball ages a little bit it will be ready for the olympics.

that would be cool, id watch, it would be more interesting then anything else there is in the Olimpics right now

just watch NPPL  

 (dunno if anyone said it just skipped threw)