Playing woodsball is the way most paintballers were introduced to their new favorite sport.

Woodsball is a great way to learn stealth paintball tactics and unless you're playing on a private lot that charges fees, woodsball is free. There are a lot of advantages and a lot more ways to track and mark your opponent. Most often, woodsball games are played one of two ways.

The way involves a flag being placed at an area designated as "home" for one team and then another flag at another area designated "home" for the other team. The object of this woodsball game is to capture the flag of the opposing team. This is always a fun game to play and some snipers even go so far as to paint the soles of their shoes black so they can be stealth and unseen, even up in the trees.

The type of woodsball played most often has a lot of different names like BunnyHunt or TurkeyShoot but it involves one to two players going off ahead and then the rest of the team following and attempting to mark the "bunny" or the "turkey". The persons chosen as bunnies will have the ability to fire back as well as the possibility of laying land mines just to up the ante in the paintball game.

A lightweight gun is always best for woodsball as you wind up doing a lot more moving than in bunker type games where normally you wind up setting in and then picking off your opponents as they advance.

If you're looking for something fun to do this upcoming weekend - organize a game of woodsball with your paintball buddies for old time's sake!