PAINTBALL GUN & MARKER

The paintball gun use air system to send paintballs out of it barrel unlike the real guns that use gun powder. The system is that we fill the air source in the air tank that is connected to the gun.

There are two types of air that is used with the gun. One is CO2 and another is N2. The CO2 is widely used with manual gun in “Woodsball” and N2 is with the electric gun in “Speedball”.

The reason that they have to separate two types of air to use in two types of guns is because of the shooting system.

The manual guns that are use in “Woodsball” system is not sensitive like the electric guns that are use in “Speedball”. Like what I have said, it’s a manual so it shoots single at a time. The system inside are very simple. The paintballs are stored in the hopper then it will slide down by themselves through the feed neck into the gun. When you triggered the air will released to the bolt then appears the climax. The place where you were aiming at is where the paintballs will be send through the barrel with the speed of about 300 feet per second and hit the target beautifully.

The electric guns that are use in “Speedball” are actually called marker. It is much sensitive than the manual. Inside it there are chips that control the speed of shooting. It makes you shoot faster. If your fingers are fast enough you could shoot up to thirty or forty paintballs per second and yes, the trigger is much more lighter than the manual for that you could hit the trigger faster to get more paintballs sended to the bunker, player or where ever you are aiming at. It shoots faster so you can not use the hopper like the manual gun because it would not feed the paintballs fast enough for your shooting and there comes the electric loader instead. The loaders also have chips inside it and it is also for speed but a speed for loading paintballs. Inside it there is a spinner to spin the balls through the feed neck to marker. The spinner may work when there is a noise from the bolt when they a shooting or it may work when paintballs hit it self. In some loader they will have a system that makes the spinner spin backward when the paintballs are jammed.

PB Uniform & Equipment

The “Speedball” uniforms mostly are in red, blue, yellow and gray. Camouflages are not allowed. The reason that they use these colors is because they wanted the players to see each other clearly. Their uniform are similar to other sports, they have jersey and pants but they have a nice safety gear:

goggles,

elbow pads,

knee pads,

chest protector,

neck protector,

barrel plug

and gloves.

The most important equipment that you need to have is Paintball gun which in the “Speedball” actually call it marker and you need to have the loader and the air tank with it. The reason that they call it marker is because it is use for mark the position of another team player for not letting they move up to another bunker, not letting they have a chance to shoot our teammate and to tell our teammate that there is a person in that bunker.

(MARKER)

(LOADER)

(N2 TANK)

Types of Paintball : "SPEEDBALL"

The “Speedball” is a quick game; you may finish the game in ten or fifteen minutes. For this type of game you need to practice a lot because you need to be quicker than the “Woodsball” player. The tactic and technique will be much differs from the “Woodsball”. The “Woodsball” player may hide and shoot like a sniper or act like a soldier to make the game realistic but in the “Speedball” the game is in a form pf sport. The field is like a football field that filled with bunker.

Each team will have five players in the field and the player will run toward each other.

Each of the players will have their position: front, mid-front, back and snake.

The front player needs to be fast and take a chance to move to another bunker when ever they have.

The mid-front player needs to follow and protect the front player. When ever the front got shot the mid-front have to take the front bunker position and play as a front player.

The back player will support all players in his team by shooting or marking another player’s team bunker.

The snake player also needs to be fast because the snake bunker is the most risky bunker. The player could get shot easily but he also had a nice position to see and to shoot another team player and to tell his teammates about where is another team player are.

Types of Paintball : "WOODSBALL"

There are two types of paintball that are now playing around the world. One is called “Woodsball” and another is “Speedball”. Today I'll talk about Woodsball.

The Woodsball is a scenario game. Mostly they are played in forest or place that related to the mission that they make up. The mission information may say that there is a group of terrorists planning to bomb somewhere in Thailand and now they are hiding at Khao keaw. Our duty is to get rid of those terrorists. So as we see the information, if we have 150 players we may separate them into groups of 50 and call them Delta Force, Marine Corps and the terrorist. After that they will have to choose a person to be the commander of their group. The commander will tell what others need to do. The players will pretend to be Delta Force, Marine Corps or what ever their group named.


Usually the Woodsball mission will took around two hours to finish the game but some may took two or three days because they may have 500 players in an area of two or three whole hill. Well, that much will be the game in America or somewhere else that is not Thailand. Thai’s game is much smaller but we have three to four missions to do so it took about two days to finish the game. The reason that we have many missions is because paintball in Thailand cost a lot and that makes it not popular enough to have much player as in America. Less people use less time and less time is not enough for fun, so we need to have many missions to take more times to make it enough for players here.

My head is empty now. If there's anything more about Woodsball I'll post it next time but if there's nothing more about it I may post about Speedball.

Picture borrowed from http://www.boundarypaintball.com

Sunday in SuKhumvit 62

The past Sunday I went to Sukhumvit 62 to play paintball. I have a lot fun and I get to know many people there. I like paintball so much because it makes me relax. It’s like you tired all week then at the end you get to do something that you love to.

Some of my friend…well maybe most of them said that I’m crazy about guns or stuff like that. It is true what they said but I didn’t like real gun though, I like paintball and airsoftgun because they can shoot a person in a survival game and I love to shoot and get shoot in the game.

For now on, I’m planning to play paintball every week because I just bought paintball gun a few weeks ago. Its electric gun, it shoots fast, it uses a lot of bullets and it cost a lot for the bullet.
Some may not understand why I need to have my own gun because they can borrow it from the field. The reason is, guns at the field are manual and it’s too slow to play with the pros. And another reason is I love to have one as my own. But anyways, it is okay to use the field gun; sometimes if I don’t want to shoot much I also use it.

If you are interested to play paintball I suggest you to form up your own group because if you go alone you may don’t want to join the team there. If you want to know why, just go to Sukhumvit 62 and you’ll know the answer by yourself.

http://www.combatzone62.net/ this is the field website, you can find the map and some information here. Maybe one day our Eng II class could go together.

Next time I’ll tell more about paintball. And if anyone have question about it, ask me by comment is okay.

PEACE

NOW SHOWING (FIRST BLOG)

Today I have just studied World Civilization for the fourth time and I found it fun to know what is going on in the past. The topic that interested me the most is Ancient Egypt. The chapter starts with telling about the environment of Egypt and comparing it with Mesopotamia. The reason that they compared these two is because they are in the same period of time. The similarity is both of them depended on the water, Egypt depended on the Nile and Mesopotamia depended on the Tigris and the Euphrates. The Nile is a benevolent river, it annually swells gently and made non damage but the Tigris is in contrast, it’s frequently destructive made a lot of damage. The difference is the Egypt land is a great place to intensive agriculture but the Mesopotamia isn’t. Egypt supports three crops a year. They have no storm and no frosts and sun shines an average of 361 days per year. The environment there seems to be good for me except the temperature that is too high to stand. The temperature goes up to seventies and that is much higher than Thailand.

The part that I interested the most in this chapter of Egypt is about the religion. The Egyptian believes in god. They were polytheistic, in case if you don’t understand it, polytheistic means they believe in many gods. Now there are about 3000 names of gods that have been identified. Many of the names are the same god and few of the gods have only one name. Some of the important god is Amon and Ra; they were the god of sun. Originally they were two but later they combined into one. Other important gods included Isis, god of the Nile and fertility; Osiris, god of skateboarding…just kidding, actually Osiris is the god of afterlife. The Egyptian firmly believed in afterlife. So if you met an Egyptian don’t make a joke out of their gods okay, it’s pretty rude to them.

The other subjects that I have studied today are Property and Land Law and Introduction to Economic. The Property and Land Law is pretty fun. Today the class finished the first chapter. It is about the Law of the property and the land…that’s all what I could explain.

And the Introduction to Economic, this subject gives me badly headache. The subject looks good but the lecturer is hard to understand. He makes me don’t understand anything about it at all. But lucky for me that I had read about the subject the night before so I get to understand what I have read and understand none of his teaching. If you want to know how he speaks, try imagining the most of the Thais captain speaking out the microphone on the plane, they speak like they were drunk or hangover.

Ps. if you are my Introduction to Economic teacher, please don’t be mad at me because I just commenting you for that you could know how you teach so that you could try to improve yourself to be better a goods.

GOOD LUCKS FOR ALL