h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Next weekend I'm going paint-balling because it was a friends birthday last Thursday, I've not been paint-balling before any advice?*



*Yes I know the obvious one: "Don't get shot!"

Wear some padding - if you do get shot at close range it hurts like .

yeah; dont forget your overalls!

Be gung ho in the first round, helps to get hit early as you realise it isn't so bad and you enjoy the rest of the event loads more.

IMHO it is the most fun you can have with your clothes on!

FB

Paintballing was good fun, have two bruises on my back, one on the left and one on the right, they're almost perfectly level. I blame my friend Joel!

I also have a few on my arms and legs but they didn't sting anywhere near as much as the ones on my back.

After paintballing we went back to my friends house for beer and curry, a few people turned up after paintballing, overall there were about 11 or 12 of us. The curry was great and I had 6 Budweiser and 5 John Smiths over the course of the night and before you ask I wasn't drunk or anything like that. There was lots of being silly, pulling people out of their tent to wake them up...

Good fun all round and would love to go paintballing again.

If I drank that much beer now I'd fall over!
Glad the paintballing was fun - It's something I've always wanted to try (but won't as I'm super competitive)

I'm fairly sure that I didn't hit anyone, it's hard to track where the paintball goes and the guns aren't super accurate. Which is my excuse for not doing so well

that's always been my excuse too when running around the woods shooting at people

I couldn't see that much as my mask kept steaming up so I tended to run to cover while hoping that no-one was there! Worked most of the time but a steamed up mask does makes for interesting shooting though...

Most of the time I went for a point gun, pull trigger and hope tactic. Which let me down when someone wanted me to distract them by shooting at them while he went for the flag cos I was almost out of ammo. I had 2 paintballs left!

I'd probably have been drunk with that much in me, but then I tend to drink very little. Sounds like fun!

TRiG.