Woodsball Paintball Fields

It's your choice as to whether you play on a commercial field or home field. A commercial field is a paintball field set up as a business. Usually these fields charge entry fees and often rent equipment. The bonus to playing on a commercial field is that you get to use established bunkers without having to purchase or set any up yourself. Also, if you are a beginner, commercial fields that rent paintball equipment make it very easy to get started and try the game without committing to a large initial purchase.

At a commercial field you can jump right into the game because the rules are already established and upheld by the staff of the facility. This not only allows more playing time, but it also offers a safer game. Despite the entry fee, commercial fields are great to play at and can add much fun to your game. If you can't afford going to a commercial field or you don't have one in your city, you can always play paintball in any open field or wooded area.

With the popularity of woodsball ever increasing, most commercial paintball parks now have woodsball fields. Large commercial woodsball fields often offer giant scenario game competitions or war simulations. There's nothing more fun than using realistic military paintball gear at a realistic mil-sim oriented scenario. The rental equipment at these type of fields is also usually tactical style paintball equipment; military replica markers, camouflage protective gear, etc.

Woodsball fields are primarily used for scenario paintballing. In general, there are three types of woodsball fields, the forest, hybrid, and hay field. The forest field is the most natural of the three; basically, you're playing paintball in the woods. Rather than using bunkers, trees, fallen logs, outcroppings of rocks and tall grass are what players use as cover. Sometimes players can manipulate this playing field a bit by piling up leaves or branches, but essentially everything on the field is already there naturally. This type of field is excellent for scenario and military simulation play.

The hybrid field is very similar to the forest field, only with an addition. In the hybrid field, play is still in a wooded area (just like the forest field), however there are also bunkers that have been placed throughout the woods. Common bunkers seen on this field are often old cars, stacks of tires, barrels and piles of natural items, like rocks or logs. Some parks have elaborate scenario hybrid fields with huge forts, castles, buildings or giant, life size inflatable military vehicles to hide behind and play on.

The hay field is just like it sounds, a field of hay. These fields are a lot less common but every bit as fun. The bunkers in hay fields are tall stacks of either round or square bailed hay. Even without solid structures such as logs or inflatable bunkers, bails of hay can present new challenges making the game different and fun. Sometimes hay fields also have old tractors and farm equipment to hide behind as well.

If you live close to a commercial field, whether you play woodsball or speedball, frequent their establishment as often as you can afford. Paintball fields are small businesses that can always use the support, not to mention they give you great places to play! Try to find a commercial woodsball field and play on it; then play woodsball in the forest and see which you like better. If you know the woodsball field you'll be playing on in advance, try to wear the appropriate camouflage clothing to match your environment!

Dan Levesque is the owner and operator of a successful online paintball retail store, ChoicePaintballGuns.com. He also owns and operates several other successful businesses and is the treating doctor at a full time chiropractic clinic. He is also a professional powerlifter and trains several top level strength athletes.

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