Paintball Safety Tips

Paintball has become the fastest growing extreme sport and with this there are growing concerns about the safety of the participants. We at Fun On The Run Paintball Park want to stress the importance of following a few simple rules to keep this a safe sport for all players and spectators.

• Players should always play at regulated fields with referees to oversee the games as well as check paintball markers with a chronograph. A chronograph will check the speed that the paintball marker is firing to insure that you stay within the legal limit of 285 feet per second. This is something that should be checked daily.
• Players should always wear paintball approved goggles. These goggles have been tested and have the impact resistance that is necessary for protecting you from injuries. Goggles are to be worn at all times while you are on the playing field.
• Barrel blocking devices (B.B.D.) are to be on your paintball marker at all times while you are off of the playing field. This insures that players and spectators are protected from accidentally being hit by a paintball at close range.
• Shooting your paintball marker is only permitted on the paintball field and in the target range. The target range is a safe place where you can chronograph and test fire your marker. Always wear protective goggles in the target range as well as on the field.
• Never work on your paintball marker without taking safety precautions first. This would first require wearing protective eye wear and disconnecting your air source.

By following these basic safety tips everyone can be assured to have a safe, fun filled day!

-www.Fortworthpaintball.com

Fun On The Run Paintball Park
2621 Roberts Cut Off Rd
Fort Worth, Tx. 76114
817-237-0299

History of Paintball - Overview

Around 1980, a couple guys in New Hampshire were talking about a recent hunting trip one of them had taken. The conversation turned to how they could re-create the excitement, skill and adrenaline rush of the thrill of a hunt, without harming the “target”.

About a year and a half later, another friend showed them a paintball gun, which had historically been used by loggers for marking trees and cattlemen for marking cattle. The two guys came up with the idea of using the paintball marker to hunt each other. Thus the sport of paintball was created.

In the early 80s, paintball games started to take shape. These survival games, similar to capture the flag, placed teams against each other. The initial guns were clumsy and slow loading, the protective gear was makeshift or borrowed from workshops and the paint used was oil-based.

Today, the modern paintball player wear special protective gear and use rapid-fire paintball guns that shoot water-soluble biodegradable, non-toxic gelatin “paint” capsules.

Warning: Goggles in picture are not approved paintball goggles. DO NOT USE ANY Goggle System that HAS NOT been ASTM Paintball Approved. Permanent eye damaged could occur, if non-proper eye protection is used!

-www.Fortworthpaintball.com

Fun On The Run Paintball Park
2621 Roberts Cut Off Rd
Fort Worth, Tx. 76114
817-237-0299

NASCAR meets Fun On The Run Paintball

Back on September 30,  2008, Kyle Busch one of NASCAR’s top drivers and a host of the local media to the paintball field at Fun On The Run Paintball Park for a few games of paintball. The media geared up to battle Kyle and his team, including Eddie Gossage from Texas Motor Speedway, in three rounds of splat-tastic paintball.

The first round Kyle’s crew won in a very convincing fashion, round two was a very hard fought battle that went back and forth until the pro driver and his team came out victories. Now, with a few games under the media’s belt they took the field with a new game plan and the confidence to win. The final match was hard fought and left Kyle Busch’s team on the ropes. With time running down Kyle took matters into his own hands and made his move into the media side of the field and eliminated the last three media members. With the paintball side of Kyle’s day winding down, he was heard saying “that he wanted to continue playing paintball”, however life as a pro athlete would not allow it, he had to return to the track. Fun On the Run Paintball would like to thank Kyle, all Media, and Texas Motor Speedway members who helped us at Fun On The Run produce a fun filled paintball day.

-www.Fortworthpaintball.com

Fun On The Run Paintball Park
2621 Roberts Cut Off Rd
Fort Worth, Tx. 76114
817-237-0299