Three Column Notes

Source #1 http://www.paint-ball.org/paintball/statistics.htm
Thesis: The sport of paintball is just as safe as conventional sports, if not safer because...

Main Ideas:
-Explaining how safe the sport of paintball is.
-Supplying statistics on the sport of paintball.

Small Ideas/ Quotes (Evidence):
-Statistics showing how there are "0.2 yearly injuries per 1,000 participants for paintball." (Hospital emergency room injuries, statistics from 2003.)
-In 1996 Chelsea Clinton (President Bill Clintons daughter) played paintball for her 16th birthday party.
-Statistics on how there are more injuries each year on people getting out of bed opposed to playing paintball.

Response:
-If the president will let his daughter play paintball, and the odds of you injuring yourself are so low while playing then why would you consider paintball as a "dangerous sport"?

Engage:
-I agree with this because of my first hand experience as an avid athlete in paintball as well as others sorts. I have had countless injuries inflicted on me from playing sports like football and basketball, where in paintball I can only recall a couple injuries.

Source #2 http://paintball.about.com/od/discussion/qt/Paintball-Is-Not-Dying-Part-1.htm
Thesis: Many people think that paintball is a dying sport, but they are wrong because...

Main Ideas:
-Paintball is a dying sport
-Paintball is getting fewer new player each year

Small Ideas/ Quotes (Evidence):
-"The primary reason that many people mention as why paintball is dying is that many long-time players are leaving the sport."
-As people grow older they usually lose interest in high level competition that sports brought them in their youth.
-Fewer new players are coming to take the places of the people leaving the sport.

Response:
-Every industry has its ups and downs, look at Twinkies as an example. They went out of business but are now slowly coming back into the worlds industry.

Engage:
-I agree with points in this but also disagree with others. As an avid and regular paintball participant I see new faces and new players all the time. I also see plenty of old faces of people who continue to come back every weekend to feed their addiction and have a good time with friends. I have multiple friends over the age of 40 that I see at the field on a weekly basis.