George A Skogg invented a soft Gelatin capsule containing a washable marking fluid. He worked for the company Nelson Paint Company. According to the website Paintball Mountain, paintball evolved from the paint pellet. An idea and implementation by Charels Nelson, co-founder of the Nelson Paint Company on behalf of the forestry industry to mark hard to reach tress with paint.
The first gun to be used in paintball was the Splatmaster invented by Robert G Shepherd who was working for the Nelson Paint Company http://www.paintballmountain.com/paintball-gun-info/history_of_paintball_guns.htm
The first paintballs were made by the Nelson Paint Company in the 1950s. They intentionally made it for marking trees and cows. Paintball started, for fun, in the 70's whentwo guys shot each other in the woods, but the first gun was also made by the Nelson Paint company in 1976 when they thought of a game to stalk and hunt each other for fun. The reason for this was because Hayes Noel, a stock trader and his friend Charles Gaines were talking about Gaines' trip from Africa, and how he hunted buffalo. Gaines' wanted to recreate the thrill of hunting buffalo by making a game of survival. For their first game they used very small, 12oz, co2 bottle and the only gun available were the Nelspot 007pistols. No mask had yet to be created so they used safety glasses and the paintballs then weren't biodegradable like ours, they were oil based, AND the guns had to be recocked after every shot. :( They invited a writer from Sports Illustrated to watch and write an article about one of their games. It appeared in an issue of Sports Illustrated in the 1980's and it was named "survival". It was a hit and they made and sold equipment to the public. They made a huge profit and in 6 months they were rich. From then on it was deemed a sport!! yay :)
There is no record of any Incan sport of "paintball"
paintball, because in a magazine he said he used to be a pro paintball player, and that it is his favorite sport.
paintball
Yes but paintball is mostly a American sport so it is hard.
paintball is a hobbie
Paintball.
Yes because paintball is awesome! :) Yes because it is a team building sport. Yes because a really popular sport, and it's so fun!
paintball is considered an extreme sport, due to the fact that people being hit and caused pain is part of the game.
It is the third biggest extreme sport in the world.
Paintball is a very unique sport just like football and soocer and stuff are sports
paintball was invented by lumberjacks they shot or marked the trees the got drunk and shot each other and paintball was born
It is not an easy sport to enter, and is as uncommon as most extreme sports.