Taylor’s promotion of how playing paintball is a healthy, competitive, teambuilding sport made a lot of sense to me. It is not necessarily the violent, brutal sport that most who have not played it, envision it to be. This sport seems to have many benefits that Taylor pointed out. It reminded me of a time that my work colleagues and I participated in a teambuilding workshop.
We all gathered at a location away from our jobsite. There was an ultimate common goal that we were to achieve; to develop a mission statement for the Charlotte Campus Student Services. We divided in to several teams and competed in multiple competitions, occasionally changing and combining teammates. Through a voting process, the results of our winnings helped to build different parts of the mission statement. When we were finished we had come up with what was the birth of this new statement. Everybody contributed in some way, and we all understood that it was a work in progress, something that could be reexamined and changed as often as necessary.
What I liked most about Taylor’s writing about paintball playing was the teambuilding aspect and how good things can be accomplished when working together. I think that is something that most would not consider on this topic and is probably something that most proponents of this sport enjoy the most.
