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History of Paintball
Along with some of his friends, it
is the American Bob Gurnsey
who gets the credit for inventing paintball.
The
first game of paintball was played in a smaller company of this friends in
1981 in New Hampshire.
This first battle proved to be so successful that a year later
Bob was
already running his own company organising paintball games
and selling the
concept in a franchise system.
Following the rapid growth of the game in the Western countries,
paintball is now played by vast numbers of people,
as it is one of the few
sports where women and men compete equally,
where age is not dominated by
youth and where physical size
and strength are not as important as
intelligence and determination.
  
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