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Post by darebelcoach on Mar 23, 2013 13:33:11 GMT -6
This summer we plan on doing something a little different with our varsity team for an end of the summer team building activity.
We are going to take the varsity squad on a paintball outing. It is an outdoor course/field with different settings (bunkers, towers, etc) about an hour bus ride from our school. Going to break the team up into 3 or 4 different smaller teams and let them compete, strategize and get away from football (have some fun playing paintball) before all "the real fun" starts in August.
This is the 1st year we will do something like this and I was just wondering if any of you have done anything like this, and if so, did you find it successful? Have any of you ever done a paintball outing? Now did your kids respond?
Thanks
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Post by macdiiddy on Mar 25, 2013 22:56:30 GMT -6
We did it to culminate a lock in type thing we did. Basically we did a bunch of white board install and competitions that required communication, leadership and teamwork.
I thought it worked pretty well. Even the coaches got involved in the paintballing. One of the cool things is the place we went to had this castle. The last thing we would do is put all the seniors and any coaches who were playing inside it. Sp the rest of the team would try to advance on position and get the people inside. That was probably the highlight for me.
We stopped doing the lock-in so we stopped doing the paintball thing as well.
Every time we did it, there was always 2 or 3 kids that had some insane paintball ball gun that they own. And everyone knew to stay away from them or be on their team haha.
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Post by John Knight on Mar 26, 2013 8:38:23 GMT -6
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Post by JVD on Mar 27, 2013 16:24:53 GMT -6
That sound's like a lot of fun! Nice way to get out of football for a few hours...
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Post by coachwoodall on Mar 27, 2013 19:43:24 GMT -6
<gasp> YOU'RE GOING TO TAKE KIDS OUT AND TEACH THEM HOW TO SHOOT EACH OTHER?!?! OH! THE TRAGEDY THAT WILL INSUE!
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Post by JVD on Mar 28, 2013 6:16:16 GMT -6
Are the paintball guns painted black?
High capacity magazines?
Terrorists...
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