Recently a term has entered the paintball player's vernacular: AGG. It was made popular by various So Cal kids especeially those on the Hostile Kids team. Many people do not like the term for unkown reasons. They consider it stupid and just a "fad" produced by those crazy west-coast-pot-smoking-homesexual-loving-freeks. I confess that i orginally thought the term was rathr stupid. But then I realized that it is part of paintball's development as not only a sport, but a real sub-culture and lifestyle.

The term agg is not alltogether a new thing. Kyle (moderator) when i asked about its origins, infromed me that agg is an abreviated from of AGGRO. Aggro was a part of skaters' slang int he 1980s acodrinf to him. AGG=AGGRO
So what the crap does AGGRO mean?

Agg ro
NOUN: Chiefly British Slang 1. Aggressive or violent behavior. 2. Irritation or exasperation: “Postponing new hospitals and roads causes far less aggro than sacking town hall or Whitehall workers” (Economist).

ADJECTIVE: Slang 1. Aggressive or violent. 2. Daring and skillful, especially in a sport such as surfing.

ETYMOLOGY: Short for aggravation and aggression

[^American Heritage Dictionary^]

So there you have it the meaning of aggro and therefore AGG. No mystery now.

It should be noted that aggro is only what may be considered the origins of the now popularized term. It meaning has expanded and and it is safe to say its use has expanded beyond aggro's original definition. As ft57 said, "The meanings of agg in itself is really agg."

Based on the definition, however, it can be inferred that the popular thread AGG 101 is actually a perversion of the use of agg, as they use it to describe a style of play and "on-the-field fashion"

But why is agg so great?

With every sport, you might say ther is a sub-culture that develops around it that envelops the participant in the sports lifestyle. Along with thisdevelopment comes new terminalogy. Surfers developed slang like "narly", "stoked" was made popualr be various extreme sports (it might be snowboarders who mostly use it, i am not sure). So agg and other terminalogy, as i mentioned earlier, is part of paintball developing a real sub-culture and liflestyle. Which i think is totally cool. Because i am inclined to think that paintball has been slow to develop its own real sub-culture which i think affects paintball's exposure and general public knowledge. I mnean it dosent take long long to recognize a skater, or a guy who's into hardcore, or punk rock (the real stuff mind you).



--------originally posted and written by Capt. Nitro------------

GLK=brocore.

Thanks god for the orinally posted crap because i was attually starting to think u wrote that.

oh so im not intellectual enoughor something?!

GLK=brocore.

no i was just hopeing that u didn't have that much free time

oh i didn't think midget could write that...i'll be honest, good post.

it's true...u can see the ballers around u these days, sporting the apparel....it's a good feeling

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Man midget what a vocabulary you have on you, usein those big words, lookin up stuff and info online and in the dictionarry, good for you, NOT. Quote from Tippmann Woods Ball

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I'm just trying to figure out what a "homesexual" is. Would that be someone who is really down with his "homies"?

are you flaming me? i can't tell but trust me you don't wanna start a flame war with ME biznatch...

GLK=brocore.

I was thinking more along the lines of someone who really loves their house.


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