The game of Paintball has become popular in the last few years as more and more people are starting to play. Paintball started out as a hobby, a game you would play with a few friends. It is now a sport that has professional teams and even played at the college level. Some of the colleges that have paintball teams are, Texas A&M, Ohio State, Clemson, FSU, The Citadel, Georgia Tech and Auburn (9).
Paintball can be played as a team or individual sport. You win the game by eliminating your opponent(s) by hitting them with a paintball. Paintballs are soft gel like capsules filled with food grade, non-toxic, water soluble dye that is biodegradable and will not harm the players or the environment.
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The roundness of the paintball will determine how straight the ball will shoot. A rounder ball will generally cost more. The shell of the paintball is real important in how the ball performs. You want it to break on your target not in your barrel. Finally the filling, it needs to be a thick bright colored liquid that is hard to wipe off during the game.
You have different grades of paintballs. The ones that are normally used are the recreational balls. These are the ones used when playing from time to time with friends. You then have mid-range, which is the most popular. Finally you have the tournament level paintballs, which cost the most. These are the best paint balls and will give you a better game.
An employee of a paintball facility says they only sell the mid-range brands for regular play (12). This type works best on the speedball course and for the woodsball course. The balls are not expensive so the customers don’t mind paying for them. To play at their field you must buy the paintballs that they sell. They do this to make sure that the paintballs that are being used are of good quality and have not been altered in anyway.
If you do not play very often your paintballs can go bad. Some of the ways that you can tell if the balls are bad is that they have a strong smell, dimples on the balls, they a warped and the surface is sticky. One of the best
Paint-Pen, Inc. is a company that manufactures and distributes liquid paint dispensed in ball-point tubes. The product is sold under the registered trademarks “Paint-Pen” and “Liquid Embroidery”. Aside from bearing the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval (awarded in 1973), Paint-Pen distributes its products under the home party plan with exclusive franchise agreements with its distributors.
The other board members are worried that the new strategy may “damage the brand, undermine the pricing architecture, and impair margins” The new cheaper, non-conforming Elevate golf ball would be priced at $27 per dozen, which is more than “40% below the company’s flagship Victor TX line” and is targeted at recreational and beginner golf
• As pointed out by Dunlop Maxfli, the concept may turn off consumers as an infringement on their access to cheap used balls.
In determining how the edge will move, there are multiple assumptions each manufacturer must make such as, will anyone else in the industry do this where I will get the benefit from them as well? Is it beneficial if I’m the only one? Will this put pressure on pricing since customers will have to purchase new balls? Will there be additional costs to educate the end consumer so they understand what the color means? Is there a negative impact of seeing my ball grey that
He includes this into his paper to clarify his reasons behind promoting paintball. He goes on to explain each aspect he had mentioned by giving proper evidence to support his views. Like when he disguises paintball as an athletic sport he states that "During the game, players execute numerous strategic moves to gain a tactical advantage, often including quick jumps, dives, rolls, and runs." To continue to support his argument, Taylor mentions the article about eye injuries. Paintball can be violent and can cause such injuries if not played with proper safety precautions. He mentions the counter argument about violent injuries in order to justify his thought properly. Finally when Taylor begins to explain how people interpret paintball as a promoter of violence he counter attacks that with the fact that there is nothing proven that this sport influences teenagers into committing violent dangerous acts.
From the article, “Position on Dodgeball in Physical Education”, “NASPE believes that dodge ball is not an appropriate activity for K-12 school physical education programs.” While tag and other physical education activities may include gentle use, dodge ball has a heterogeneous amount of factors that could cause injury, both mentally and physically. “… being
Lawn Bowling, also known as Bowls, influenced today’s modern sport called Bocce Ball. Bowls originated from the Romans and “Descended from the universal pastime of throwing rocks or pebbles at targets on the ground” (Leibs 73). By the beginning of the Renaissance, this sport was popular among all classes of society. Some popular equipment that was used in the game was weighted balls, the jack, and the Trigg. Each player had four wooden balls, with a
Balls back then were not like the tennis balls we know today. The balls were made of wood and the players would hit the ball into the wall with their bare hands until eventually it got so painful that they eventually incorporated leather gloves to take some of the pain away.
A matter of opinion has separated a variety of sports enthusiasts apart, due to the ongoing debate of whether golf is a sport or simply a skill. Famed golfer Arnold Palmer declared, “Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening – and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented. (ThinkQuest.com)” These words state what every athlete experiences and feels when he/she is turning a double play, making the game winning three point shot, or throwing a hail mary pass for a touchdown. Golfers are athletes too, they train for that big moment just like any other athlete, but
Golf ball manufacturers would be looking to achieve several key strategic goals, such as increased sales, increased market share and / or increased profitability, to adopt and implement PI’s technology. Accordingly, manufacturers are mainly concerned with the cost and implications on manufacturing, competitor reactions (and customer perception), the forecast growth in the new balls market, the share they could capture and the financial details of agreement.
Bowling received its greatest boost with the invention of the automatic pin setter. It was a big step in allowing the businessmen of the game, the bowling alley owner, to remodernize both their alley and thinking. Bowling became a complete family sport with modern, efficient equipment available at all times for men, women, and children. (Pezzano 18)
The U.S. Golf Association (USGA) specified the characteristics of legal balls within tight parameters. These restrictions on size, weight, materials, texture, etc., seemingly left little room for product innovation. In fact, the USGA regulations specified not just what went into a ball, but how it could perform, stipulating to within 10-20 yards how far the ball could travel when hit by a certain type of club traveling at a certain speed, all verified under controlled conditions with robotic testing equipment. Nonetheless, new product introductions were rampant in the industry, with slight changes in surface coatings and dimple patterns, for example, being touted for their ability to add a handful of yards to a golfer’s shots, to give more accuracy, or to create greater control through faster spin on the ball. In addition, ball manufacturers spent millions of dollars on advertising campaigns for their balls. There were three basic types of balls, all conforming to the same general specifications. The oldest technology still in use was the three-piece ball, which consisted of a core, windings, and a cover; this ball was good for spin and overall control. The second, and most popular, type of ball was the twopiece ball, which eliminated the windings of the three-piece ball; this ball produced more distance. The newest technology was the “solid core, multi-layered ball,” which had taken the
Used balls can be purchased for significantly less or even found by many golfers and have an acceptable performance level. Diminishing the used golf ball supply may cause frustration for the average golfer.
As anyone who has played a round of golf will attest to, the sport is based around many fundamental principals of physics. These basic laws are involved with every aspect of the game from how a player swings the club to how the ball moves through the air on its way toward the pin. It is the challenge that physics presents to the golfer that has allowed the game, and equipment used, to develop so drastically over the past one hundred years. The first golf balls used were called featheries. They were made with a horsehide cover packed with wet goose feathers. When the balls dried they became extremely hard. The major flaw with the featheries was that they could not be used when the conditions were wet because they
Other kind of sports is dual sports. It is played by two people at one time. For example: tennis, squash, ping pong, wrestling, car racing, board games, motorcycling, and many more. These games are good for all the people, but especially good for those people who are afraid of facing group of people during game and cannot perform well in sports with teams those kinds of person can choose dual sports in which only two person can play the game and through this that person can gain the potential playing with team and can build his confidence as well as personality. In addition, it also provides physical and mental strength to cope with team players. You can play these games with your friends in school or at home and in your leisure time. It keeps a person fresh and gives him/her peace of mind.