Paintball is considered an Extreme Sport. Paintball is a game where players shoot eachother with paint filled, gelatin, breakable balls that does not stain and are called Paintballs(Ammo for the Gun). While playing you must wear a speacially made mask just for the game. The mask is sort of like a Ski mask, with a very strong plastic that wont break easily. The plastic and Goggles are made to with-stand the impact of a Paintball soaring through the air at around 275-300 FPS(Feet Per Second), about 83-90 meters per second, which is the industry standard maximum velocity for safe play. Without much protection, or any, or even about an inch thick, it will leave a welt, depending on how much protection you have on if any. If you play at a private field or any field they will make you wear the masks that are made for the game and atleast one layer covering your body. Also, depending on how much protection you wear, will determine how much an impact of a paintball hurts, and not all the Paintballs break on an impact, some don't break which hurts even more! If anyone is thinking of playing for the first time, I would have to say, "Go for it!", what do you have to lose? Well besides maybe a little bit of money to play. I would not let a thing so little as an impact of a Paintball hurting. Now some of you may be saying, "Oh Crap! I never want to play Paintball", and some of you may be saying, "No Pain, No Game!" or soemthing like that. I would be saying, "No Paint, No Game!"(get it? Paint...) Overall, I would have to say Paintball is the best Sport I have ever played!