When you play recreational paintball, you can sometimes end up in a less experienced group. Although you could easily bunker all the noobs, it wouldn't be very fun, and it definitely wouldn't be fun for the noob. Here is 100 ways to have fun and challenge yourself when playing paintball.
1. Play without a marker, use a foam sword or your barrel to tag out opponents.
2. Force yourself to move up the field every 10 seconds
3. Dash to the 50 (halfway across the field) right off the break
4. Play Pump
5. (Guys Only) Play without a jersey or shirt
6. (Guys Only) Play with only slider shorts and shoes on. DO NOT play in your underwear, as fun as it sounds it can be very painful, always wear slider shorts
7. Stack the teams against you
8. Play One vs All
9. Don't play with a pod pack, hopper only!
10. Play with 21 paintballs in your hopper
11. Put one or two paintballs in your loader for each opposing team member
12. Sing your favourite song while you play, and try to remember all the words
13. SCREAM!!! whenever you move so they always know where you are
14. Wear neon colours
15. Moonwalk to your bunker while humming 'Thriller' by Michael Jackson
16. Use the worst paint you can find
17. Play only with a pistol
18. Play only with the GOBLIN pistol, it only holds one paintball
19. Play prone the whole game
20. Use a slingshot to sling paint
21. Fog up your goggles before the game, be careful not to fog them completly
22. Shoot only with your non-dominant hand
23. Do not run at all, walk everywhere.
24. Use a rental such as a Tippmann 98
25. Use a magazine fed marker
26. Cap your semi below 5 bps
27. Cap your ramp under 5 bps
28. Run for the flag off the break
29. Try and have a decent conversation with the ref while you snap shoot
30. Crouch the whole game
31. Do not come out of a bunker in one place more than once in a game
32. Do not bring any paint onto the field
33. Do not use a hopper
34. Use a gravity fed hopper
35. Play a position you don't usually play
36. Pretend you are in a video game and move your marker everywhere you look
37. Keep your pods half full, so you have to be super sneaky to not give away your position
38. Only use paint grenades
39. Only take one shot at an opponent, then move on
40. Play stock-class pump (ten round tubes)
41. Do not dive at all
42. Stay upright and stiff the whole game
43. Text your grandma while in mid-game
44. Tell the opposition your game plan before the break
45. If you have a weakness (ex can't shoot with left hand) play using that weakness (ex only shooting with your left hand)
46. Play with "Drunk Goggles" on. This does not mean drink alcohol while playing!
47. If you find an enemy player, let someone else take the shot by communicating where the opposition is
48. Use hand signals for everything
49. Try to be agg
50. Use a really loud marker or loader
51. Use a shorter barrel than normal
52. Have a ref tip the opposition off of your location now and then
53. Climb a tree (field rules permitting) and play from there
54. Don't take off your barrel sock until you reach your first bunker
55. Hide behind very small bunkers
56. Give the other team a better angle on you, and try and win a gun fight
57. Spread your gear across the field and run to get the different parts after the whistle without getting hit
58. Play your least favourite field and try to make it your favourite
59. If you play speedball play a woodsball course, and vice versa
60. Fire once every ten seconds only
61. Do not use bunkers
62. Before the break, choose one or two other players on the other team. Make it your personal goal to seek out and eliminate ONLY those players.
63. Hip Shoot the entire game
64. Use only a singe finger to pull the trigger if you have an electronic marker
65. Play in the snow
66. Play in the rain
67. Take risks
68. Crawl through mud and bushes
69. Run through open areas to get to a key position without hesitating
70. Don't make any game plan until the game has actually started
71. Make split-second decisions. Don't hesitate in anything during play.
72. Shoot more paint than usual (unless you are playing with less experienced players)
73. Try jumping over lanes instead of diving under them. This rarely works but is really fun.
74. Keep your marker up all game long
75. Try to be a ninja
76. Wear restrictive clothing so you don't have full range of motion with your arms and legs. This includes mascot suits
77. Hold your marker like a new player would, tank above or under your shoulder
78. Put flaps on the side of your mask to give yourself tunnel vision
79. Keep your ears under a beanie and headband to restrict hearing
80. Play in the middle of the field
81. Don't use your barrel front
82. Chrono your marker under 200 fps
83. Be as aggressive as you can be
84. (Not for use with new players) Perform a run through every game or whenever possible
85. Run and gun off the break if you don't usually
86. Try and get to the other teams 'spawn point' without them noticing and take them form behind
87. Perform a one-man flank
88. Look up some techniques on the internet and put them all into action at once in a game
89. Don't listen to your teammates, keep yourself unaware of what is going on and try to figure it out yourself
90. Put your pods back in your pod pack
91. Do not move from the break point
92. Run all the way into enemy territory off the break
93. Adjust your trigger so it is difficult to walk
94. Never move back
95. Use a funky tinted lens that makes everything a specific colour
96. Dual wield
97. No shooting, barrel tag only
98. Reload so you don't lose a single paintball
99. Take a group of new players with you
100. Just have as much fun as you can