That be pretty tight. If you watch late night poker you'd know that they're trying to get poker in the olympics so why not p-ball.

Yeah it would be pretty tight

 but how many counties play paintball anyways.

No. 1 key in the Olympics= world wide appeal.

Bomber Brigade wrote: Go team usa!

that with his avatar would scare the rest away

ravepb wrote: They have like 30,000 different types of swimming and some are just jumping off a really high platform. Paintball takes way more skill than just jumping off stuff.

No... it doesn't....

Paintball is easy compared to professional/olympic diving... WAY easier...

If you don't believe me you really don't have too much common sense, and should not be allowed a set of vocal cords...

Balance, speed, agility, timing, not landing on your back and breaking your neck, looking good in a swiming suit thingie (ESPECIALLY for the girls)... These are all skills you will need to master before you can dive professionally.

Now, what does paintball require? Get your gun out, screw in the tank, put the hopper on, load it, point, and shoot...

Which one sounds easier?

Belt #2 wrote: ravepb wrote: They have like 30,000 different types of swimming and some are just jumping off a really high platform. Paintball takes way more skill than just jumping off stuff. No... it doesn't.... Paintball is easy compared to professional/olympic diving... WAY easier... If you don't believe me you really don't have too much common sense, and should not be allowed a set of vocal cords... Balance, speed, agility, timing, not landing on your back and breaking your neck, looking good in a swiming suit thingie (ESPECIALLY for the girls)... These are all skills you will need to master before you can dive professionally. Now, what does paintball require? Get your gun out, screw in the tank, put the hopper on, load it, point, and shoot... Which one sounds easier?

who cares the point is it still takes much more skill than curling and its a diferent kind of skill just like hockey is diferent than basketball swimming is diferent than paintballing

warmonger83 wrote: with the curent state that professional paintball is at, paintball in the Olympics would be a huge blow to the sport. There are just too many loose cannons on the professional circut that throw their guns everytime they get hit, spouting a line of words that would make a sailor blush in the process... not to mention all the cheating. I truely believe that paintball is not ready for TV coverage either. But hey, what do i know... im just a responsable adult that has followed the sport for 5 years and played for 2.

Just because some players do that does not mean that all over the world a majority of paintball players act that imature. In all my years of playing  i have never seen anyone through there gun at another player. True there are a few cheaters and some people like to insult other players when they are tagged out but a moajority of all paintball players obey the rules and try to get more and more people into the sport. Bringing paintball into the olympics would make the sport grow considerably because I know some people at work that have no clue what paintball is. If you broadcast a paintball game all over the earth people will become intrested and will try the sport out.

no......it  would be cool but no,wut would the rest of the world think of making paintball an olympic sport, it may be big in our lives but some ppl havent even heard of paintball, or even know anything about it, we are a small population in the world,think about like ur biology teacher, would he like to watch paintball? alot of ppl think paintball is to violent and warlike,teaching ppl to be violent, i completely disagree but they are a large percentage of the world.

ok enough reality talk, think about all the sponsers in it and stuff, it would realy make paintball alot more popular,that would be pretty cool.

TiPP*MaNN wrote: no......it  would be cool but no,wut would the rest of the world think of making paintball an olympic sport, it may be big in our lives but some ppl havent even heard of paintball, or even know anything about it, we are a small population in the world,think about like ur biology teacher, would he like to watch paintball? alot of ppl think paintball is to violent and warlike,teaching ppl to be violent, i completely disagree but they are a large percentage of the world. ok enough reality talk, think about all the sponsers in it and stuff, it would realy make paintball alot more popular,that would be pretty cool.

Well if people dont know about it how can they think its warlike If people see how paintball is really played and what it is really like they will most likely have a better image of paintball than their previous thoughts. Oh yeah and it was actually my old biology teacher that brought me into the sport

Glassjaw wrote: TiPP*MaNN wrote: no......it  would be cool but no,wut would the rest of the world think of making paintball an olympic sport, it may be big in our lives but some ppl havent even heard of paintball, or even know anything about it, we are a small population in the world,think about like ur biology teacher, would he like to watch paintball? alot of ppl think paintball is to violent and warlike,teaching ppl to be violent, i completely disagree but they are a large percentage of the world. ok enough reality talk, think about all the sponsers in it and stuff, it would realy make paintball alot more popular,that would be pretty cool. i didnt know curling existed until about 4 years ago either when i was like 7 or 8.  besides i personally lwould love to see more paintball on tv.  actualy while i was down teh shore on comcast cable channel OLN there was a half hour of paintball on.  a tournament.  i was so surprised i just sat there with my jaw wide ope while my girlfriend just sat there on the bed like she didnt care lol.  but we did sleep in the same bed , anyway back to the point.  if paintball would be put into the olympics i think it would take a few more years for the sport to grow more and alow more mature players to grow into the sport.  yes there are people out there with terrbile attitudes but there are that in every other sport.  along with cheating, what makes cheating in paintball different than cheating in icehocker or basketball.  i think paintball should be broadcasted on channels such as ESPN for quite some time before it is put into a very large competition such as the olympics.  although i do believe it will be there one day, but not this day.

yeah i doubt paintball will make it to the olympics and espn soon but maybe in a year or two we might actually see more paintball games on TV.

1. yes
2. yes
3. yes
4. yes
5. I don't play paintball
6. yes

The Guy wrote: ugh, absolutly not. Never ever paintball in the Olympics. If paintball absolutly needs a world venue then why not add on to X-Games? But never in the Olympics. First off all olympic sports are usually hundreds of years old. Plus you can't compare curling to paintball. Both require emmense skill. Its not just some huge game of shuffleboard. Plus its a winter sport, while paintball would be summer. Also your poll is out of wack. yes yes yes yes I don't play paintball yes you have to add a no in there somewhere.

If you bothered to read clearly it says " No, i just don't like paintball not i don't play.

Anyways paintball should at least be a U.S. sport sice people all over the country play it. maybe down the road it will be an olympic sport but for now i would be satified with just a national sport. there should be college paintball teams and stuff don't you think?

The Guy wrote: ugh, absolutly not. Never ever paintball in the Olympics. If paintball absolutly needs a world venue then why not add on to X-Games? But never in the Olympics. First off all olympic sports are usually hundreds of years old. Plus you can't compare curling to paintball. Both require emmense skill. Its not just some huge game of shuffleboard. Plus its a winter sport, while paintball would be summer. Also your poll is out of wack. yes yes yes yes I don't play paintball yes you have to add a no in there somewhere.

i take it you have never played indoor paintball. Some of the sports on the olympic list are not more than 200 years old. True they are not as new as paintball but they are not as old as say the marathon.

Okay, Okay...It would be awsome to have paintball in the olympics...then id actually give a flying **edited** what went on in that short period of time...but, paintball is simply not an olympic sport.

However, paintball could easily be add to the X-Games...that would be fricken awsome. 

P.S.  Only one more thing:  If they can have ping-pong and trotting horses in the olympics than they can definetly fit in paintball...jesus.

emo_punk wrote: Okay, Okay...It would be awsome to have paintball in the olympics...then id actually give a flying **edited** what went on in that short period of time...but, paintball is simply not an olympic sport. However, paintball could easily be add to the X-Games...that would be fricken awsome.  P.S.  Only one more thing:  If they can have ping-pong and trotting horses in the olympics than they can definetly fit in paintball...jesus.

Paintball in the X-Games would be OFF THE HOOK! and everyone knows the X-Games are televised.

travis75 wrote: Curling is teh best!

right after speed walking

1.... curling is hard.... have u guys ever played it? i guess not..., in curling its all about wight spin bounce setting up a guard, getting behind their guard, doing triple bounces into the midlle..... its hard

seems easy when ur just like.... yeah curling sucks, anyone can thrown a rock down teh ice....

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.

jmac3 wrote: 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.

their shoes or skates are different and Im pretty sure hockey players use their own sticks and jmac is right you can be a newb and have some tricked out gun but you wont be able to beat a pro with a

-200$ gun running on co2.

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?

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

most of the stuff is exactly the same. some of the stuff has little differences. but playing a cheap spyder gun against an angel (or some other high end gun) is really not fair. plus the teams supply the equipment in other sports.

Don't get me wrong, it would be great to see paintball in the olympics, it's just that I don't see why they'd allow it.

Whats all this talk about cheating, Like a friend said "wiping off the paint isn't cheating, I just want to keep my jersey clean"

Seriously tho, aside from paintball I also train in Mixed Martial Arts and as far as getting the sport mainstream it is having the same problems.  The general view is that is too violent and reckless streetfights with no rules (which it's neither), so it hasn't gone mainstream.  The only way to watch it (the UFC or PRIDE) is on Pay-Per-View which sucks because you have to pay.  Basically if the general public sees it in any negative light its going to be tough to get it on any TV and mainstream.

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

NMLvaio wrote: I made a topic like this long time ago in the past

But you didn't post it during the olympics

just watch NPPL  

 (dunno if anyone said it just skipped threw)

it would be awsome if paintball was in the olympics, but in order for there to be compatition there has to be a lot of teams that play.... and i don't know of many countries that play paintball. and if it doesn't make it into the olypmics, i think they should be in the x-games because paintball is defanatly an xtreme sport