Out of our dominical gathering at Dalian church, we organized a paintball afternoon in order to welcome the first warm spring day of Dalian. Surprisingly, the paintball field is not out of the city in a very hidden area, but in the Lao Dong Gong Yuan located in downtown near Sheng li Guang Chang. Besides the paintball field, the park proposes activities such as golf and a roller coaster I have never seen working. And as in every park in China, sunny days come with the sound of old friends singing and playing old Chinese music. The description should be enough to your imagination.
So we 12 frenchies made 2 teams: the flashy blue fashion soldiers and the dark green fashion soldiers. We were grabbing our semi auto second hand rifles as the Laoban shouted “It is a very dangerous game, please use your weapons carefully and remember keeping ‘em up to the sky when you are not on the field. You do not take your helmet off on the field!”. Wow they are taking it seriously, real rules and all, I was not expecting this. I thought the guy would do a “how to use demo”, aiming to his most hated employee as a daily ritual. We finally stepped on the field, with a briefer for each team, being also the referees. We were fully equipped with our uniforms and helmets, and these referees were standing on the exact middle of the field wearing jeans, a shirt and their sunglasses. Their “The bullets dodge me, I am the referee anyway” attitude finally chased away the so unbelievable strictly serious atmosphere. Each team followed its briefer to discover the field as he was doing some blabla talks about the rules. While guiding us through the field, the employee first warned us on basic paintball rules such as “remember the 10 meters distance before shooting”. Then he advised: “As you can see, we are in a public park and a 1 meter high wall separates the field from the public area. You may go out as you wish, but please be careful and do not shoot on pedestrians”. Alright, we are definitely in China.
The game finally started and strategies were settled, regardless of the naked referees and the pedestrians having a sunbath in the field. Covers were blown up by the so discreet spectators and the lack of pressure in the weapons was an excuse to drop the 10 meter rule. Two hours of extreme battle and we got out as clean as we came in. Somehow, I had fun playing paintball in a kinder garden scenery. Grazie mille per il caffè.
So we 12 frenchies made 2 teams: the flashy blue fashion soldiers and the dark green fashion soldiers. We were grabbing our semi auto second hand rifles as the Laoban shouted “It is a very dangerous game, please use your weapons carefully and remember keeping ‘em up to the sky when you are not on the field. You do not take your helmet off on the field!”. Wow they are taking it seriously, real rules and all, I was not expecting this. I thought the guy would do a “how to use demo”, aiming to his most hated employee as a daily ritual. We finally stepped on the field, with a briefer for each team, being also the referees. We were fully equipped with our uniforms and helmets, and these referees were standing on the exact middle of the field wearing jeans, a shirt and their sunglasses. Their “The bullets dodge me, I am the referee anyway” attitude finally chased away the so unbelievable strictly serious atmosphere. Each team followed its briefer to discover the field as he was doing some blabla talks about the rules. While guiding us through the field, the employee first warned us on basic paintball rules such as “remember the 10 meters distance before shooting”. Then he advised: “As you can see, we are in a public park and a 1 meter high wall separates the field from the public area. You may go out as you wish, but please be careful and do not shoot on pedestrians”. Alright, we are definitely in China.
The game finally started and strategies were settled, regardless of the naked referees and the pedestrians having a sunbath in the field. Covers were blown up by the so discreet spectators and the lack of pressure in the weapons was an excuse to drop the 10 meter rule. Two hours of extreme battle and we got out as clean as we came in. Somehow, I had fun playing paintball in a kinder garden scenery. Grazie mille per il caffè.
1 comment:
damn picture looks real but ı am glad it is only a game....arent you sick of the war news from all over the world..apperently not you simulate it in a virgin park..so calmness of the park had been violated...how nice..
next place please to be violated.... laffing
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