[Warp Shadow]

Well I live in Canada and I'm really bored, sports just don't appeal to me so much anymore, I've got one hobby left that I still actually do and so I spend most of my time playing video games. I went out paintballing for a friends birthday however and it was totally great! I loved it and I got really into paintball for a while. So I go to set up a paint ball party for my birthday now and find out HOW FREAKING EXPENSIVE IT IS!!! Maybe it's it's my province but I'd be paying over $500 to reserve a field so my friends can play and not have their asses kicked. I figure, Okay, maybe we should all just get guns, make a team and kick it in our free time! But noooooo! Paintball guns cost like $300 JUST TO GET A GOOD ONE!!! ANd about $80 for 1000 paintballs. I cannot justify this to my parents!

SO I look for other combat sports. The other two I find are laser skirmish and airsoft. First of all, laser skirmish is crapped dressed up as a milsim. It acts all cool but then you're still stuck with your little plastic box going PEW PEW at people with your invisible beams of harmless light and twenty meters away the other guy goes, hmm? Oh what's that? Oh my gun appears to be telling me I'm dead? What the hell happened? So airsoft is the only thing left.

It seems at first to be everything I wanted, fun, fast paced, tactical and it has an element of realism so you DON'T feel like you're playing cowboys and in'jins.  It's even cheap too! Then I find out two things, One: there is no-where to play or buy stuff in my city or outside of it and Two: Airsoft guns are illegal in Canada. SO unless I want to pay $800 and all my firends do too (the honest ones as well since airsoft operates off of the dreaded honor system) I'm out of luck.

So I come here, depressed and bored after days of wasted research, and I ask you guys... Is there anything you can recommend? Anything at all? It doesn't even have to be a run around and shoot eachother game. Just anything to do over the summer that wouldn't be hella boring?

[haloboy100]

Well, i'm in a similar situation as you. But i like Skiing because it's really fast, and if you're like me (which most people aren't) you can reach wicked speeds on hills like lake Louise down here near Calgary.

[Mobius]

Go Hunting?

[Colonol Dekker]

Rugby. Seriously. You'll feel more alive than paintball ever made you feel. Charging headfirst into a bloke a clear half foot taller than you and bringing your knee into his chest to score a try. :nosmileytoconveyemotion:

[Inquisitor]

I fence.

[Ghostavo]

I... play chess? 

Anyway, can't you just rent guns? I've once organized a paintball event with some friends of mine and it came to about 10€ for a gun and 100 paintballs for each participant with the field included.

[Jeff Vader]

You can also mix two existing sports together in order to create new and even more dangerous activities. Activities such as ski-boxing and water biathlon.

[Colonol Dekker]

You can also mix two existing sports together in order to create new and even more dangerous activities. Activities such as ski-boxing and water biathlon.

Ski-Boxing = 

[haloboy100]

You can also mix two existing sports together in order to create new and even more dangerous activities. Activities such as ski-boxing and water biathlon.

Ah yes. Reminds me of my Alpine snowball competitions

First one to wipe out down the hill from a barrage of snowballs fails

[Mobius]

Mix hunting and sex...you hunt down women and 0wn them...

[Polpolion]

I fence.

Best. Sport. Ever.

[Mobius]

[Corsair]

Quidditch. It gets physical. http://www.middlebury.edu/about/pubaff/news_releases/2008/pubaff_633411029873034956.htm

[Mobius]

[General Battuta]

Wow, one of my friends from high school started Quidditch at Middlebury. I grew up there.

[colecampbell666]

@Warp Shadow: Airsoft guns aren't illegal, several of my friends have them.

I second haloboy100 on skiing, best sport ever. If you're just starting, get some second hand equipment after you've rented a few times, don't get new equipment or you'll kill it while learning.

Mix hunting and sex...you hunt down women and 0wn them...

That's called rape.

[Mobius]

No if she wants you to hunt her down

[Jeff Vader]

Hmm... I don't know... can you call it hunting anymore? I mean, if you're in a forest and a moose walks over to you and says "Shoot me.", can it be defined as hunting?

[Polpolion]

Hmm... I don't know... can you call it hunting anymore? I mean, if you're in a forest and a moose walks over to you and says "Shoot me.", can it be defined as hunting?

If you replace moose with person then it's still murder.

[colecampbell666]

What?