Paintball's Ten Commandments

• In all paintball games and competition, wear proper eye and face protection. Eye injury is probably the main concern surrounding the sport of paintball. While all licensed paintball fields and tournaments demand mandatory of eye goggles and face protection, there are still injuries from players scrimmaging in the woods behind their house, and other places like that. We stress that you set a good example and wear the proper eye protection on the field and off.
• When you are not on the field or in a combat situation, always use barrel plugs. You do not want to risk the gun going off accidentaly and hurting someone.
• Before any type of paintball competition, always test for your guns velocity and make sure it never exceeds 300 feet per second (fps). Excess speeds may damage the paintgun or perhaps another paintball player.
• Do not use your paintgun in any manner that could potentially cause you or the public harm.
• Do not walk around in public with your paintgun. You do not want to run the risk of the gun going off by accident and hurting somebody. And many people from the public may be unfamiliar with the sport of paintball, and may recognize it as a weapon, or even as a real gun.
• Pay attention to the safety lecture from the referees before game competition. We are all proud of the sport of paintball and its safety record. We all want to maintain its safety so that it can continue to grow as an exciting and safe sport.
• Don't drink and Shoot. You can have all the drinks you want off the field, but when you step into the paintball arena, we expect you to be clean and sober.
• Keep your emotions in check, and control your temper during team play. While paintball is a great sport for letting loose and a great way of blowing off steam, physical contact or verbal harassment of another player is still prohibited. Paintball players respect for the game and respect for one another has made it the game that it is today. We expect some fierce game battles but players that can shake hands at the end of the day.
• Periodically check the quality and visibility of your paintball goggles. Keep a coy of any manuals/specs that come with your paintball goggles purchase. Each set of paintball goggles should come with recommendations as to when they need to be inspected and or replaced.
• Cliché Alert!! Do unto other players as you would have done onto you. Treat all players with a certain level of respect, including rookies.