Paintball is a healthy sport, which creates usefull skills.

I personally am an avid fan of the sport paintball, and upset at attempts to stop this sport, which builds character, teamwork, and both physical, and mental strength, I would like to debate someone who is familiar with the sport.

1-Paintball builds many skills which can be used later in life.
Paintball is a sport which builds skills such as teamwork, stealth, respect, physical, and mental strength, awareness, and social skills, because the game is often played with people you don't know.

2-Paintball is safe when proper precautions are taken.
When proper precautions are taken paintball is safe, and there is minimal damage to an aware, and prepared player.

3-Paintball is misrepresented.
People often think of paintballers as the kids who drive around shooting old people with paintball guns. This is not the case, but is a rare few, and most of these people do not actually paintball, but only own a gun.

1-Teamwork I can see, but stealth? C'mon, we're not all going to be Navy Seals. I can see where you are coming from but playing a game that can be considered barbaric is not a good way to appease the soccer moms. Paintball COULD be helpful, but learning such skills would be easier and more convenient if you went to a team building camp. That's more focused on getting you through multiple obstacles, not just getting shot at.

2-Laser Tag is safe also. I don't want to CP, but you could also go water gunning, nerfing, things like that, that could be more cost effective (Paintball guns are sorta pricey, I'm sure you have to make, or buy your own paintballs, which aren't reusable, and your own gear). These could be as cheap as buying a ticket, or paying a rental fee.

3-I don't believe it is misrepresented. It seems pretty mainstream, events have been on ESPN, I believe, and lots of kids at my school go do it.

Maybe ten years ago (if it was out then), it was misrepresented, but not now.

DrAcula, you don't seem to have taken a side on this debate, I didn't say that paintball is misrepresented as a good sport, I said it is misrepresented as a way to cause havoc by shooting old people. You also seem to overlook the fact that the point of paintball is fun, the benefits are just side effects, for lack of a better word. So a boot camp/training camp cannot be paralleled to paintball. Also, I did not say anything about the cost of paintball being cheap, honestly, I would rather play with someone who is willing to work to get their gear, it shows me that they are serious about the sport, and not some yahoo who is trying to make a bad name for the sport. On your argument pertaining to water guns, and laser tag, neither of these two provide the same skill as paintball. In paintball you need to be able to be aware of your enemy, and be alert at all times, in a water/laser fight, your enemy has to be at a rather close range for a "kill" and such skills are not required, also, laser tag, on the scale required to build these sills, is a very rare thing. You don't build teamwork running around in a room full of mirrors shooting everything you see, nor do you build any of the other skills which you do in paintball, and I agree with you on the stealth argument, but it is a skill you learn, regardless of how you use it later in life.

Well excuse me for taking your title literally.

I never made a correlation between Boot Camp and Paintball, but again, it's not misrepresented. If people are willing to pay for it fine, I don't really see where this debate is going, but I will argue anyway.

Have you ever played a "real" game of Laser Tag? That's not people running around, it's people moving slowly, using hand signals, etc. It is actually like a real military operation. If some idiot runs around shooting everyone in a serious match, he'll most likely be taken down.

Your perception of Laser Tag seems like the same perception a "yahoo" would have of paintball. In paintball, it is my understanding from paintball, is that you can hit someone anywhere, it a serious game of laser tag, you have maybe six places you can shoot at to hope to hit. It's more precise.

There are different levels of gaming between the two, but I believe paintball is taken seriously, and Laser Tag really isn't, judging from your perception from it. The advantages from paintball can be found in any team activity in the world.

You have said nothing to negate the fact that paintball is healthy, and creates good skills, therefore, I have no more arguments.

If your statement is that it's healthy and creates good skills, then there's really nothing to argue about. The thing is though, there are a lot of other things that are just like this. It's not really significant, the healthiness, or the skills. You could go running, and burn calories, you could participate in group activities, to get those skills. There's just other things you can do.