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i would recommend a soft cup. one guy took a nut shot(no cup) and had to have that one surgically removed.
Wimp, can't even take a nutshot. pff, what a newbie. [:D]
Seriously Nova5, your accounts seem a bit far fetched. I've never ever seen anyone hit in the nuts ever, in all my years of paintball. Maybe it's because I play with larger groups at paid fields, so it's less hunting and more trench warfare. Second, what kind of an idiot climbs trees for paintball? That's just so idiotic, if you get caught climbing and the other side open fire you won't even be able to return fire, chances are you'll get hit and fall off, and seriously injuring yourself. Never put yourself in a position like that, where you can't defend yourself. The only time that even came close to happening to me is when I got flanked once. I couldn't see where the other guys were but I could see their balls flying past me because they were red. Their fire pinned me and this other guy to the fence we were huddling against, so we had nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. (normally, this would be considered a good defensive position, but since we were attacked from the side ...) So we could only shoot back blindly in the general direction which doesn't offer much in the way of suppression fire, in the mean while, they zeroed in on us and eventually both of us got taken out. That totally sucked, we were just like sitting there fighting desparately for time and they were zeroing in and there's nothing we could do about it.
I have to say that one of my favorite paintball games occured on the same exact map (field). The other side attacked first and we managed to beat them off. Then the game (it was timed) was about to end, I don't know how this came to be but everyone on our team spontaneously got out of our defensive positions and mounted a charge. It's like one of those Russian infantry charges you'd see in a WWII movie, everyone just charging up their hill and shooting like crazy (while yelling and screaming). We actually broke through their remaining defenders and captured their flag, that was fun.