Paintball Girls

In the not so recent past, paintball girls were treated very much like the unfortunate participants in the various college girl videos that are only available online and over the TV. Marketed as sexy paintball girls, the attention grabbing headlines spoke of hot girl paintball outings in the woods, and the hot paintball girls’ pic that went along with the spreads showcased a buxom beauty with nary a stitch of clothing - except a lacy, racy bra – that was clutching a paintball marker. To say that this is a demeaning depiction of the very real paintball girl and paintball women that have discovered this extreme sport and made it their own is putting it mildly.

The girls of paintball usually roll their eyes at the notion of hot paintball girls thrashing around the woods in bikini underwear and splattering paint all over one another like some demented mud wrestling event gone bad. Instead, paintball girls are as competitive in the sport as their male counterparts, know their equipment, can keep deep cover with the best of them, and have managed to not only form teams but also entire leagues.

Taking along their girls, paintball playing mothers show their daughters that extreme sports are fun, can be safe, and do not have to be accompanied by risky behavior. Younger girls playing paintball are oftentimes trained by dads and moms to know their equipment, use safety gear, and learn how to read weather conditions, area idiosyncrasies, and other aspects of the sport. Manufacturers of girls’ paintball clothing have caught on to the new trend, and since there is many a female paintball league that requires outfitting, a lot of equipment and apparel is being produced that is tailored for women. Paintball players across the nation are very supportive of the increased interest in paintball guns, girls show.

Thus, when all girl paintballers’ events are being held, professional men’s teams as well as the local paintball supply stores do whatever is in their power to show their support and to attract more paintball girls; those who are serious about the sport know that the only way to add more paintball girls to the teams is to dispel the myth of the “paintball girls gone wild” movie and print spreads that are nothing but the wishful thinking of a juvenile, male mind that is probably not housed in a body that ever once experienced a paintball match up close and personal.