Aussie rules? Best sport in the world? you know, for me to believe that it would have to come up with a better name for itself - I mean - aussie rules... that's just dumb.
It's an okay game though - kind of reminds me of ballet though.
I, like most if not all Kiwi blokes, like to watch Rugby, (Union.) I mean, we are reputed to have the best team in the world, (we do, but it fluxuates every now and then.) We thrashed the Lions - even the Maori All Blacks took them out, and when we did the All Black tour of the UK and Ireland we smashed all of them too - including the current 'world chumps' England who don't have Jonny their soccor playing star any more to kick their conversions and penalties while we get Dan Carter.
I'm not bitter, I just liked the pun 'world chumps.' Nothing personal.
To play though - well, I like things a bit out of the ordinary. This means violence. I used to fence, but was kind of too prissy you know? I hated all the bowing and prancing around and very little driving cold steel into the throats of my enemies. Not to say that didn't happen, it just didn't happen enough.
Paintball though - that is fun. I don't really like the whole set up thing, with bits of 2x4 and rubber tires to make an otherwise barren pieceof land interesting. It's still fun, but I prefer the wilderness. There's a place fairly near me, TAG wargames, this place has a couple of courses, the first one's the small one - kind of like what I described before, a couple of forts bult on to it, the second one I can't remember, but the
third one is the biggest, yet most barren in terms of man made structures. Okay, so there's a main point in the middle, and one small fort for each team, poorly built from thin bits of wood and corrugated iron, but most of it takes place in the buch. There's cliffs and a river and trees and gorse which fucking hurts, but when you're playing paintball that dosn't really matter.
I remember shooting a mate of mine, and then jumping headfirst down a cliff into a patch of gorse to avoid my other mate who was with him. i lay on my back in the gorse bush and waited for him to poke his head over the edge of the cliff, which when that happened, I splattered his view with yellow paint. I then proceeded to crawl along in the gorse bush and took out another guy before i was shot on the top of my head. It was fucking painful and I was hurting for a few days afterwards, but it was so totally worth it, and awesome fun.
Yeah, so I think Rugby is the best 'big' sport to watch and Paintball is the best to play. Just takes a fuck load of effort to organise your mates to play a game or two. I need to join a team.
Edit: Oh, and every time I play Paintball with my mates my Dad insists on coming. He's a valuable asset too because he's a mean bastard. He grabs people's guns and shoots them with it. He also grabs the barrel of other people's guns and hammer a few shots at them while they are helpless to fire back. He also played on my team when we were playing a game where if you were shot you had to call for a medic. The medic was anyone on the team who tagged them. My Dad shot a Twelve year old and told him viciously, "Right. Now call for a Medic." When the Medic came he shot him, and so on until he got shot and was so far into the bush that none of us could tag him - we were defending an onslaught and running out of ammo while our weapons were jamming. Fucking classic man.
Last edited by Tyferra (2006-02-28 02:27:07)
