Epic Paintball Warfare
posted: 08.06.2012
by: Sandra Auer
tags: Action & Sports , , video , outdoor ,When extreme sport meets video art
Sheldon and Leonard, the highly likable physicists from famous TV-Series The Big Bang Theory are huge fans of it and do it on a regular basis - they play paintball. The extreme sport in which players compete in teams or individually to eliminate opponents by tagging them with dye is very popular not only among its players but also among a huge crowd of Youtube Users who need their regular dosis of epic battles. Some very popular media partners like Social Paintball or weeklypaintballshow have helped the players to spark new interest in the sport. With professionally filmed videos and the right music in the background, clips like the one above spread over the network and increase the popularity of paintball successfully. In the United States, paintball battles have even been broadcasted on television for years.
The filmer of the above video, Devin Super Tramp, is one of the stars in video art and some of his Youtube videos have been clicked and watched millions of times.
Examples:
Trike Drifting
World's largest Rope Swing
Huge Bike Jump into a Pond 35 feet in the air
The most important posterboy of paintball, Max "Maximus" Lundqvist, has been a teamrider of Dotz for about a year now. He and his younger brother Alex were fascinated by the sport after watching the movie "Gotcha" and became its pioneers in Sweden.
Paintball-Channels on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/WeeklyPaintballShow
http://www.youtube.com/user/socialpaintball
http://www.youtube.com/GirlPaintballer