The History of Paintball
In the year 1970 the first paintball gun was made , by a man named James Hale that worked in a place known as Daisy Manufacturing.
Paintball guns then became manufactured and used by farmers to put marks on trees and livestock ( since some people thought branding the poor animals was cruel)
the actual game of paint ball officially started on May 1981 New Hampshire, U.S.A. , it was the brilliant idea of 3 men :-
1. Bob Gurnsey
2. Hayes Noel
3. Charles Gaines
Surprisingly enough all 3 had legitimate jobs and were not adrenalin junkies or freaks (what are the odds of that !)
Bob Gurnsey, was a sporting goods retailer , Hayes Noel, a stockbroker and Charles Gaines, wasa writer.
Soon after on June 27, 1981 the first paint ball game was played it consisted of 12 players competing against each other in a game of capture the flag , surprisingly the guy that won the game captured all flags without firing a single shot! , as for the marker ( the name used to describe a paintball gun) used in this game was nothing fancy but a Nel-spot 007 pistols.
A guy by the name of Caleb Strong thought it would be a good idea to take this game from being an indoors sport to becoming an outdoorsy one , sure enough in 1982 Rochester, N.Y , The first outdoor playing field was opened.
Charles Gaines started marketing the game as the National Survival Game (NSG) (not paintball) , soon after a company by the name Pursuit Marketing Inc.(PMI) started triad by marketing and distributing paintball products.
It was not until 1983 at the first NSG National Championship held with a $14,000 cash purse that the game franchised to Canada and the first outdoor paintball fields opened in Toronto, Canada.
And in 1984
Paintball franchised in Australia as well , but became known under the name of Skirmish Games
how ever finally on November 1984 in Buffalo, N.Y. The first indoor playing field opened by Caleb Strong ( you know the guy that thought it would be a good idea to play outside)
In 1985 England decided to join in and the first outdoor playing field was opened
As the game grow ever so popular , a set of firm rules was to be established , to insure a safe and fair game so sure enough in 1988 the International Painball Players Association (IPPA) was founded as a non-profit association dedicated to the education, growth and safety of paintball.
1991 was the year that the game boomed all over Europe , in major countries like France, Denmark and others.
The National Professional Paintball League (NPPL) was finally established in the USA in 1992-1993 started the NPPL Pro-Am Series with sites around the U.S.
It was in 1996 that the game truly reached universal status when fields sprang up all over the world in countries like : Mexico Scotland Denmark Holland Italy Norway Sweden Africa Russia New Zealand Brazil Venezuela Philippines Germany Austria Ireland Belgium Greece Israel Korea Thailand.
Finally in 1998-1999 ( officially as the website said 2000) that it came to Kuwait , in the form of an out door field , located directly behind aqua park and close to the Kuwait towers ,
Paintball Kuwait
Operating Hours:
9:00am to 10:00pm daily
I highly recommend it , so boys and girls of all ages get out there and have some fun , be safe and remember it’s Paintball - the war you’d love to fight
so keep your head down fall in and Move out because its GO TIME! Go , Go , Go ! - Time to get some
i luv paintball