In the past twenty five years,  there have been many advances in gun technology and game progression.  People now have seperated themselves into either speedball or woodsball. 

For the woodsballers, we don't rip out twenty bps but there are a select few in our game that decide to do so. 

On the other hand, speedballers easily put out twenty bps and rip through loads of paint.

Everybody can enjoy either one of these games once in a while, even if its not their style.  But the question I am asking about  is the markers.  Where are paintball markers going to in the future?

Do you have any skill if you rip 30bps at the beginning of the game and get three people out?  Is speedball only being dominated by those rich enough to afford electronic markers and uber amounts of paint?

When I have a kid ten years from now I want to know what advancements will be made.  As a paintballer I am afraid that this game will be ruined by technology and the rich.  We need to set limits.  Guns will only get faster.  There have been theories of over commercialization of paintball to make it as organized as football or basketball.  This is not what us woodsballers would like to see.

WHERE IS THE PAINTBALL SOCIETY GOING?

You guys need to stop whining and get back to playing your game. I play speedball and you guys are talking about it as if it is some kind of criminal activity to play speedball. Its just the type of game we like just like you like woodsball. Let us play our game and you play yours. It will never any time soon come to the point where you have no one to play with because every one switched to speedball. Other people share your opinion so play with them. We have worked to get the publicity and advancements that we have now. Im not trying to start a flaming war with you all i'm just saying that this is just another way that people like to play the game.

I play both.

I believe woods players will begin with new tactics and strategies and begin shooting faster still not quit as fast as speedball players who will then be whining about shooting too fast(balls colliding with each other in the barrel) New air systems and eventually a gun that doesn't need an air system(please come to me soon). Also, I see a new type of bunker in the future larger fields for more than just 10-man.

 woodsball will always be around. where im from we like playing at fields but we also have are own courses for the times when we dont have the 20 bucks to go to a field and thats what a lot of woodsball is kids who are just playing in their backyards. and as for the technology aspect eventually rules will be set up to level the playing field so it will be more equal. but we will have to cross that bridge when we get there. i also think companys will start to lower prices as new technologies are found for paintball production. all it will take is a few companys to figure out how to produce cheaper paint and gear that is still good and all paintball companys will have to lower prices to compete.

god, this whole speedballers shoot 20 bps and woods shoot 3 is annoying as hell give up people dont bother each other.

98_custom22 wrote: i belive that woodsball will soon die out shich is sad because i play both and  i love woodsball. speedball will be the only thing that people will care about.

woods wont die

marker wont shoot 30 bps, its just no logical to shoot  a whole hopper in 2 seconds

I could see a few backplayers trying to empty a whole hopper on one second, but they don't know the secret... it's not your hopper or gun or trigger it's how many stickers you have and how large they are...

well, if they do make it 15bps only then Tippmanns with E-bolts or that new sear tripper may become more popular if that's what you're saying.

Also, why don't you like bravecoward?

I think X-ball and other forms of speedball will end up in the summer Olympics some day. I dont see Woodsball going much further than it is today. Only the markers for both will continue to advance as far as technology along with paintball clothing and goggles.

But if we all had hindsight we would all be better off.

woodsball wont die out for the simple reason that people like me dont have trhe money to blow off a case in one game i shoot max 200 balls a game also people like me will still want to play woodsball because its just plain cooler and if the guns turn out to be more advanced then is suitable for woodsball i'll pull out my trusty A-5 and everything will go back to normal and im sure tippmann will make new guns that will only shoot a couple balls a second like the a-5 but with technological advancement in other directions besides speed such as size weigth and comfortable handling        &nbs p;   speed ball wont die out because its the one that makes all the money in the paintballl industrie i have 3 guns in my entire paintball "career" but i know guys who have had hundreds becaus ethey always need the faster gun also they waste money on paintballs speed ball makes money woodsball doesnt because A CASE CAN  last u 10 games or more youre guhn doents need the latest fancy upgrade because all you want out of it is accuracy get a not bad barrel medium speed get a r/t or an egrip  with an a-5 you migth want range get a flatline (it helps with accuracy too)if you want a good handling get yourself an a-5 with a a remote and the 90degree forregrip and maybe a stock youre set up for a great gun for maybee 600$  SPEEDBALL ive seen guns going for 1600$ with nothing on them

anyway neither will die out     and if youre looking for me ill be playing woodballs even in 2032 unless they cut down all my trees then youll see me in jail for shooting them to death

I think that it will be pretty much like it is now.  I think that speedball will always be televised and more people will go to watch woodsball games.  The only thing is that woodsball deserves it's attention.  Players need to get huge scinario(sp) games going and more woodsball attention.  Woodsball is the backbone of paintball.  It's pretty much where all paintballers start.  They get their lower-end semi-automatic marker and play with some friends.  They see speedball games, and they think that they would rather do that.  The reason there are so many more woodsballers than speedballers is for a few reasons.  Some people can't afford speedball and it's requirements now-a-days.  They also would just rather be stealthy and sneak around.  Some of them play both too.  There are a lot of players that play some woodsball and speedball.

This is what I think is going to happen.  It will be the same pretty much, but what I wish to happen and prove me wrong is that woodsball becomes more popular.  I want it to be known that woodsball is the backbone of paintball, and that there would probably be no speedball if it wasn't for woodsball.  I don't know, it's just my 2 cents.

Smitty wrote: This is what I think is going to happen.  It will be the same pretty much, but what I wish to happen and prove me wrong is that woodsball becomes more popular.  I want it to be known that woodsball is the backbone of paintball, and that there would probably be no speedball if it wasn't for woodsball.  I don't know, it's just my 2 cents.

dont wish woodsball will become the popular one cauze then it will bring up the cost of good woodsball guns and admission fes for woodball fields

You guys have some good points.  I just hope it turns out as well as you say.

moonball

lol isn't it pretty obvious? speeds of up to 40 and 50 BPS will probobly become common with high end markers and then their will probobly be a speed limit set in speedball cources for the first time...

higher quantities of air stored in smaller sized tanks, farther shooting guns, lighter guns, new air sources, maby co2 and nitro and maby even paintballs will become less expensive. thermal lenses might come standard in all masks. more acurate barrels and paintballs. better grenades.

And by the way, woodsball is going farther. Much farther. The SPPL (scenario paintball players league) has recently opened, and its first national competition is during the summer. With better prizes then i have ever heard of in any speedball competitions. http://www.scenariochallenge.com/ - http://www.scenariochallenge.com/

98_custom22 wrote: i belive that woodsball will soon die out shich is sad because i play both and  i love woodsball. speedball will be the only thing that people will care about.

I KNOW that woodsball is not going to die out. I know this because of where i live. I live in Phelan CA. If any of you know where that is than you probley have no live as well.  Where i live there is desert as far as the eye can see in every direction.  The way i started is the way that i know every other kid in the country will start out.  Buying a twenty dallor blade from the local wal-mart, find a dirt lot, and shooting it up till the is gone.  I personally thing that paintball should become an olimpic sport.  Woodsball and speedball.  I do feal that you should be able to rent those high dallor guns from a speedball field and then return at the end of the day. 

Thats my opinion.

Woodsball will always be around, with most people playing it instead of speedball. It all depends on how different people prefer to play. I play woodsball because it is more realistic, and it is how paintball actually started out. The whole deal with insanely priced guns is just crazy. Too few people realize that it is not the amount of bps that you can fire, but the skill of the player. Highly priced markers give a bad name to paintball, they just show how the flashiest and fastest markers are said to fire so fast. Seriously, without going full auto, or without a r/t or e-grip or anything, I don;t see how anybody could really fire 20 bps, or why they would want to use a thousand rounds in a single game. And most of those rounds are wasted shooting bunkers or empty air. MAybe about 1/250 might hit someone. I just don't see where the logic comes from to make high priced markers like that.

My opinion is that paintball will return to its roots in woodsball.