In Paintball the paintball gun seems to get all of the glory and deservedly so because paintball guns are frankly pretty awesome. This is fine and all but when you’re just starting out with paintball you’d be surprised what “other” piece of equipment could really help make you a better paintball player…

In my opinion the paintball mask is by far the second most important piece of equipment in paintball. My girlfriend turned into a much better paintball player when I got her a really good paintball mask (it’s pink… I had to do it) with thermal lenses.

She said it made her a much more confident player out on the paintball field because before she was always worried about getting hit in the face with paintballs. Personally I couldn’t relate with her because I’ve always played with a paintball mask but the other day I decided to put my new found theory to a test.

The test was I would go out and play with goggles on and nothing else to cover my face or ears. Frankly I’m a bit worried about the ears and I can see already how not playing with a paintball mask would change the way you play.

Anyhow, I’ll be testing out my theory in a couple of days and I’ll report back results here soon enough…