There has been a fair amount writen on the need for a core of recballers in a uni club from which to recruit tourney players. It is much easier to build up a strong base recballers and then convert them over to tourney ball, than it is to recruit students straight over to tourney. Mainly because recball is an awful lot more accessable to players as well.
- They don't need their own kit. Yes i know you can lend people kit, but its so much simpler just to turn up to a site and get handed everything you need.
- The site basically sorts out the whole day for them. Just turn up and play, no real preparation required.
- It is what they are more familiar with, and more likely to have already tried, or know people who have tried. People like the familiar.
- There isn't such a serious competitive nature to it making it less intimidating to the newer player, its just for fun is the best way to try something. If you like it you can take it seriously, but to start out serious without even knowing if you like it will put people off.
Build a club of recballers. Have regular trips to a local site. If it's one that has a sup'air field, do a half day in the woods on a usual package type thing. Then in the afternoon hire out the sup'air field, get your tourney players to ref/coach/etc and let them all try a bit of sup'air. It worked for us, I'm got more people wanting to join the tourney team than i know what to do with this year.
yeah they from brisl, where i come from! didnt know they did paintball, learn a new thing every day...
