The idea of paintball started back in 1976 or 1977, when a couple of Nam veterans had a barbaque party. They came up with the idea of a game. A game based of stalking, and getting stalked. Like hide and seek.

The purpose of the game they formed was excitement. The first game, played 1981, in New Hampshire USA, was a so called Capture the flag-game, on a 125 acre playing field. Today the fields are about 100x50m.

The players needed maps to find the flag stations, it must have been like a bit of land navigation with paintshooting opponents. The first paintmarkers, Nelspot 007, weren´t actualy made for paintball games. It was airguns shooting paintpellets for marking trees and cows, but they adopted it, and that was the start of the great sport we today call Paintball.

The sport is what some call "The fastest growing sport on Earth", and I agree. An English Paintball magazine recently reported that the sport gets about 1000 new players/ month, only in England. In the begining there was only Stock Paintball pistols with 10 round mags.

Today we have full/semi automatic markers with 300 rounds electrically powered bulkloaders. The sport really developed. The faceprotection in "the old days" where construction saftey glases. Today we have full facemasks with built in fans, and many other fancy extras. The thing that many react to when they see Paintball for their first time are the camouflage suits.

For most people, camouflage is associated with the military, so they think that Paintball is some kind of combat-wargame.

The only purpose we wear camouflage is that we will blend to the surroundings better, and if the game isn´t played in woods, the camouflage clothing isn´t so usual. Today there is much non-camouflage clothing for paintball.

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