Paintball for teenagers

This page has be written as an information page for parents looking for paintball for teenagers. If you’re a teenager looking to book paintball, I’d head straight to our menu to chose the activity you’re interested in. For parents…..please read on.

We’re often asked about paintball for teenagers and teenagers paintball parties. For parents, it can be difficult to see where they fit between our kids and adult games. For younger children, we offer low impact paintball. However, on most sites this stops once the children reach school year 7. At this point they join the adult paintball game!

From secondary school age, everyone starts to play adult paintball. This actually starts at 11 years old, before they even reach their teenage years. There are one or two exceptions to this, where we can offer a lower impact game but not many sites have this option.

Despite being an amazing game for younger children, the Kids low impact paintball feels a little slow for kids of 11 and above. They’re looking for something faster paced. Something that holds that element of danger for them.

How do we keep teenagers safe when playing paintball?

When looking for paintball for their teenagers, parents often worry about them being mixed with adults. To ensure they have nothing to worry about, every game is marshalled for safety and fairness. And, in truth, we find adult paintballers generally look out for younger players. We mix groups to ensure even firepower and age splits across the teams. This tends to encourage communication and when everyone has their kit on you cannot tell the difference between the adults and teenagers.

Adult or child, the guns have the same power and they use the same paintballs so the physical difference in size doesn’t matter. We’re strict on safety and will jump on any issues quickly, whilst being flexible enough to let the games flow and keep it all fun.

Teenage paintball parties

We don’t offer a teenage paintball parties for the high impact, 0.68cal, game that most of them want to play. In this game they usually play a 3-4hr session and we’d recommend our 500 paint pack. 500 paintballs is a great amount for a half day’s paintballing so keeps the overall costs down. They may need a few more paintballs but it’s still the best value for most people. If the kids do go over they can buy additional paint themselves on the day.

We’ll mix the group with others so they’ll gain the benefit of playing against, and with, some of their friends. They’ll also have a whole host of backup and additional targets from the other groups they play with.

Are there any other options for teenagers to play?

Actually Yes.

Airsoft

At most of our sites we have limited availability for Airsoft Parties for teenagers. These are structured more like a party session over a shorter time period where you can stop and eat at the end if you wish. Does it hurt less? No, all the high impact activities can be painful, however it is a different type of game. The game uses military type auto weapons and small plastic bb’s as Ammo. It’s amazing fun! Click here to find out more.

Teenage Rampage low impact gas powered Paintball

We now offer Teenage Rampage paintball for teenagers at select sites. Using similar gas powered paintball guns to the 0.68cal ones. The teenage Rampage game reduces their power and uses smaller, lower impact, 0.5cal, paintballs. These paintballs are designed to be more brittle and cause less pain or bruising on impact. The game is fast paced and lots of fun while taking some of the worry out of the game. The structure is more in line with the party sessions we offer, being a shorter session in mixed groups. Contact us for more info.

Pricing is similar to our recommended paintball pack for 0.68cal but includes up to 500 paintballs as standard. Groups will be up to 30 players of 12-16 year olds. 

More information on Paintball for teenagers.

If you want more information on how our teenagers paintball packages work please contact us by email or phone: 0333 577 6336 and remember to include which location you’d like to play at.