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But it hurts

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Paintball is a sport you really need to spend alot of time doing in order to conquer a few natural phobias. When I first got into the game, Adrenaline was my worst friend. I loved it but I was afraid of so many aspects that it really froze my progression. You have to conquer your mind, and the way I chose to overcome this was not to give up and get shot ALOT! I have told people that I have been shot every where on my body at least twice... but after 20 years I would say I have been shot every where at least 3-6 times everywhere on my body. I have scars that I love and scars I hate, little circles on my forearms and scars on my knees and shins, even some on my neck and fingers. But, because of the way I chose to attack my behavior for every scar I have Ive left three times as many. For every time I have been shot I have shot other people 6 times more. When you learn not to flinch, and that its just a a little pain that you can chose to focus on you become a much more valuable player. Mi...

In the Beginning

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My name is Aragon Marks and I am a paintballholic. It all started when I was 14, I had a friend who just got a set of brass eagle tiger shark paintball guns for his birthday. My friend invited me to a little one on one skirmish in the woods and I basically peed my pants I was so terrified. I had never known what adrenaline was until it coursed through me that day and I fell in love. I was so excited that when I came home I couldn't stop talking about it. My older brother was interested and ended up buying me my first paintball marker, a brass eagle talon. my talon came with an instructional VHS that gave me my first look into the actual sport of paintball, and I watched it so many times I wore out the tape and it was just static. luckily I had dial up internet and I was able to start my research into paintball, and through warpig I found they had professional players and also that there was a local field that competed in "National" events. I was a silly little kid not kno...