Real Woodsball

I'm with TippmannEFX about using your surroundings to your advantage.  hiding behind brush can be fun because your opponent has a harder time finding you while with manmade stuff, your opponent will most likely be looking that direction for you.  don't get me wrong though, i like playing scenario ball too, but nothing beats the great outdoors with nothing but God-made things.

I think that it could qualify. You have to think, what everyone calls speedball is either Sup'Air, or HyperBall. Speedball is generically used for those two formats. Just for the sake of fun debate, I think that that is speedball too. If it was the original style, then the other formats came in and "took over", I think it is still a speedball. Like how all Tippmanns and Spyders are still paintball guns. Just because it is in the woods doesn't mean that it is not a speedball. Notice the capitalization on the terms.

Psycho5785 wrote: I think as long as you are playing, it doesn't matter what kind. Just get out there and play.

Tru dat

direct damage wrote: I play real woodsball all natural thats the way it should be just arrange some dead trees and make a bunker type thing.  I mean when you add the bunkers and stuff it is speedball which is suppose to be in a open field. so im with tippmannexx

I’m not trying to flame you or criticize your opinion, so please don’t take this that way, but when you build bunkers and put them in the woods it is far from speedball. Also, how is building bunkers out of non-natural materials and putting them in the woods any different than building the bunkers out of logs and brush? A bunker is a bunker no matter what you build it out of, they all do the same thing and just as well to, and they don’t change how the game is played either, only where you play the game, in an open field or in the woods, changes that and not what you make the bunkers out of.

what about just digging holes

Well I have to be truthful, I am not to sure that Football is older than soccer but I do know that football was invented around the 1850’s and I don’t think that soccer was invented until the 1880’s or 90’s.

Layman wrote: MT. Vigilante wrote: Why do you care about how other people like to play? And about calling it woods ball, its just a name, why do we call football football, most of the time they are throwing the ball, not kicking it, so using your logic we should change the name to hand ball so we can be more correct. My point is that no one cares what the game is called, its just a name, so stop getting so worked up about it and go play Paintball how ever you want to. Umm... that looked like it took way too much effort there... I don't think that he was "getting so worked up about it" as much as he was stating his opinion. I took it to be more of a cry out for people to get back to the roots of the game, and to stop trying to "improve" it. Lots of people don't like the direction that paintball has started to go in. Don't get me wrong, lots do like this current direction - but remember that the guy who won the first game ever, didn't fire a single ball. Using your "football" logic was a weak try there. We are the only country to call that game by that name. So lets all go play some "gelatin capsule game" and enjoy it! (Please don't take this as an attack on you per se. I have been awake for coming on 30 straight hours, and meant it as more of a fun poking at you, in a playful way - not an attack.)

No offense taken, and to all those that said I was flaming the guy, I did not mean to sound like that. I was simply trying to make a point that people get all worked up and angry about small things that don’t matter. As for the football thing, I was not comparing paintball to football, I was only using football as an example of naming something that doesn’t make sense when you think about how its played, and how people don’t care what you call it. Last of all, about us being the only country to call football that, we are also the only country to play it ( Canada does not count because they copied us and just added a few yards to the field) and our football is way older than Soccer.

Curlyman666 wrote: he has a point though woodsball is best without manmade bunkers. trees,rocks and dirt,thats woodsball IMO.

what does IMO and BTW stand for?

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some of out playing fields don't have the most extensive natural cover.  so we are forced to add some.  as long as it can be removed, and isn't an eyesore its all good. 

MT. Vigilante wrote: Why do you care about how other people like to play? And about calling it woods ball, its just a name, why do we call football football, most of the time they are throwing the ball, not kicking it, so using your logic we should change the name to hand ball so we can be more correct. My point is that no one cares what the game is called, its just a name, so stop getting so worked up about it and go play Paintball how ever you want to.

Umm... that looked like it took way too much effort there... I don't think that he was "getting so worked up about it" as much as he was stating his opinion. I took it to be more of a cry out for people to get back to the roots of the game, and to stop trying to "improve" it. Lots of people don't like the direction that paintball has started to go in. Don't get me wrong, lots do like this current direction - but remember that the guy who won the first game ever, didn't fire a single ball. Using your "football" logic was a weak try there. We are the only country to call that game by that name. So lets all go play some "gelatin capsule game" and enjoy it! (Please don't take this as an attack on you per se. I have been awake for coming on 30 straight hours, and meant it as more of a fun poking at you, in a playful way - not an attack.)