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Topic: padding
Posted By: pwned!!!
Subject: padding
Date Posted: 28 February 2006 at 8:04am
| is it important to wear padding when your sliding in paintball? what padding should you wear? |
Replies:
Posted By: Snake6
Date Posted: 28 February 2006 at 8:10am
| Most Speedball Pants have built-in padding. |
Posted By: pwned!!!
Date Posted: 28 February 2006 at 8:16am
| kk but at the moment i just have camo pants with no padding |
Posted By: Snake6
Date Posted: 28 February 2006 at 8:23am
| Get some paintball pants? |
Posted By: PB MISFIT
Date Posted: 28 February 2006 at 11:38am
| Get some JT kneepads. They pwn. |
Posted By: Rambino
Date Posted: 28 February 2006 at 11:47am
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Most fatigues have insert pockets for kneepads - check yours. ------------- [IMG]http://i38.tinypic.com/aag8s8.jpg"> |
Posted By: ionpride
Date Posted: 28 February 2006 at 11:49am
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dye slide shorts r the best ------------- im the closet thing that u will come to war !!! SMART PARTS ION 3000/47 PURE ENRGY AIR DYE 03 STICKIES TEARDROP BARREL HALO B HOPPER |
Posted By: KALIS-PIMENTA
Date Posted: 28 February 2006 at 12:05pm
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Posted By: Bruce A. Frank
Date Posted: 28 February 2006 at 1:43pm
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The same sliding pads used by baseball players fit and work well under most clothing. In the protective gear category, I'd add a cup. You have never known true excruciating pain until you are hit in the testicles with a paintball. As I am just getting off crutches from a fall on my right knee that has kept me for the speedball field for two months now, I say include a very good pair of knee pads in your equipment bag. I would recommend a hard shell type like those oversize ones used by skateboarders. A screwed up knee doesn't get better with age. A serious knee injury NEVER heals to be as good as it was before the injury! |
pwned!!! wrote:Posted By: SuzukiRider987
Date Posted: 28 February 2006 at 3:38pm
| I'd at least wear some good knee bads. As Bruce said, once you screw up your knee(s), they never get back to the way they were before. Paintball is very hard on your knees, probably more than any other body part. It never hurts to wear elbow pads either. |
Posted By: Cirabisi2009
Date Posted: 28 February 2006 at 6:30pm
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i use wdp angel knee pads and elbow pads... ------------- 98% of ion owners think ions are better than any high end gun. If you would like to bonus ball these idiots put this in your sig. |
Posted By: TRAVELER
Date Posted: 28 February 2006 at 9:56pm
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In Ranger school we had padding sewn into the knees and elbows of our BDU's. There is an easy way to do it. If you look at the knees and elbows you'll see that an extra layer of cloth is added. You cut a slit into the top or bottom inside of the stitches, insert your padding (3/8" foam works best) and then sew the slits shut. ------------- For I will wander to and fro, I'll go where I no one do know, |
Posted By: Ashdawg
Date Posted: 28 February 2006 at 10:04pm
i am sorry, but what the heck does "Pwn" stand for?!?!? I have seen it
all over the place and I have no clue as to what it means!!!! maybe I
am not putting two and two together, but I have no clue!!!
------------- "Too close for missles, switching to guns..." |
Posted By: Bruce A. Frank
Date Posted: 28 February 2006 at 10:58pm
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Padding that fits into pockets is good for occasional bumps, but it doesn't stay in place well when crawling any distance and hardly any benefit at all when sliding. I have the Ronin knee/shin guards that are held in place with Velcro straps. They are Okay in that they stay in place fairly well, but if you drop to your knees on a sharp rock you feel it. They need a hard outside shell. My son's knee pads are a brand called 3A that are a skin tight/compression style. Padding is fair, but they will not stay up properly. I suggested a garter belt, but he didn't think that funny We both use Proto elbow pads. Don't stay positioned well over the sensitive parts of your elbows. Trying to crawl just a few feet with them in mixed rocks and sand left some really sensitive bad bruises. |
Posted By: warbeak2099
Date Posted: 28 February 2006 at 11:10pm
It means owned. pwned, pwn3d, pwnt, pwn, etc. They all mean owned. As in, "you just got owned." ------------- MIDN 2/C, US Navy LCE-SpyderMag | G-Force Pneumatic Mag | '99 RF Sniper II |
Posted By: Ashdawg
Date Posted: 28 February 2006 at 11:33pm
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ok, I figured it was something along that line...Thanks man!!!
------------- "Too close for missles, switching to guns..." |
Posted By: FyreFly
Date Posted: 28 February 2006 at 11:42pm
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Nice paintball pants are great to have, they provide the rugged design needed to withstand aggresive play, and most have padding to help with slides and dives. Knee pads are good too. If you play front in speedball you will REALLY want to have AT LEAST knee pads on to help with head first dives. I wear knee pads and an elbow pad on my right arm only since that's the arm I hold my marker in when I dive and rely on my elbow for landing gear. I use Proto knee pads and I am pretty satisfied with them. Personally I wouldn't go with hard shelled pads though, as it provides another spot on your body that is a guaranteed break if you get shot there. ------------- 
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Posted By: pwned!!!
Date Posted: 01 March 2006 at 2:34am
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^thanks guys, i will just get some good quality pants that have lots of knee protection, im only 14 so i dont think theres a big chance of hurting my knees. |
Posted By: Semper Fi
Date Posted: 01 March 2006 at 7:06am
| there is always a chance of hurting your knees |
Posted By: Bruce A. Frank
Date Posted: 01 March 2006 at 11:29am
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What, you think knee injuries don't take place until you are 40? The majority of knee injuries, that are debilitating later in life, take place among teenagers participating in sports. If you are sliding in I would guess you are playing speedball. Your field is using air-bunkers fastened to the ground with what, magic? Or, could they be using plastic or metal anchors driven into the ground at the corners of the bunkers. Ever seen what a high speed slide into one of those protruding anchors does to a knee joint? I have! 'Course, at 14 you think you are indestructible! Fact is, from a serious inury stand point, knee pads are more important than sliding pads. |
Posted By: Rambino
Date Posted: 01 March 2006 at 11:47am
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Ditto to that. I cracked both my kneecaps when I was 10, and I never fully recovered. Knee protection is important at any age. ------------- [IMG]http://i38.tinypic.com/aag8s8.jpg"> |
Posted By: pwned!!!
Date Posted: 01 March 2006 at 11:58am
| i looked around and saw these empire pants that have built in knee pads so ill get those, and ill get some good knee pads as well hereing wat you said rambino! |