Monday, September 21, 2009

Behind the Mask: The Basics of the Paintball Mask

By Jerry Bencia

As the game of paintball involves with hitting paintball on the opponents, a protective paintball mask should be used by the player in order to protect his face from any damages caused by the hitting of the paint ball. Many players will agree that the paintball mask is an important piece of equipment, one they are happy to spend more on if it offers great visibility as well as protection.

In the paintball game, the ball is hit with a speed of nearly 300 feet per second. It will surely cause some good damage if it happens to hit your face. So, in order to get away from the great damage, just spend some $25 to $100 to own your paintball mask. This will surely ensure safety of your sensitive organs.

As the game of paintball is involved fully with the paints, there are some good chances for those paints to get inside your eyes, nose, ears and mouth. This will make you uncomfortable and more irritable during playing. To avoid this kind of a situation, a paint ball mask is highly recommended.

The padding in the paintball should be good, so that the player may get more comfort during play. These padding are provided inside the paintball mask. The advantage of this padding is that, even if you tend to fall while play, it will protect your head without any injury.

The next important thing is on cleaning the paintball mask. Since it covers your face while playing, it should be very clean in order to provide you clear visibility. So make use of water and some clean rags to clean the paint in the mask and don't use any chemicals. There are lens cleaning solutions out there, but they are not necessary. A squirt bottle with water and a little dish soap is all you need to clean a dirty lens.

The lens provided in paintball mask is a removable one (a feature you can find in select masks). Take the lens out of the mask carefully and clean it with microfiber cloth which will remove all the excess oil in the lens of the mask which will provide you clear vision.

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