{"id":15879,"date":"2014-01-15T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T07:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=15879"},"modified":"2014-01-15T12:37:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T07:07:00","slug":"xtreme-sportz-to-make-city-daring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/xtreme-sportz-to-make-city-daring\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018XtremE SportZ\u2019 to make city daring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>#EnteThiruvananthapuram:<\/strong> Like to have a taste of some adventurous sports? Well, our city will soon turn into an adventurous sports hub. As a part of it, a group of youngsters come up with a company called \u2018<strong>XtremeE SportZ<\/strong>\u2019 with an aim to bring a cluster of extreme adventurous sports to Kerala. The company was started by David Andrew John, his wife Nisha Shaji, his brothers Dennis Andrew John and Davis Andrew John along with their consultants Sibu Thomas Issac, Farhaan and Mehsel. As a starting initiative, they have brought down \u2018<strong>PAINTBALL<\/strong>\u2019 sport to the city!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-15880\" alt=\"1511708_628894923836450_1991584218_n\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2014\/01\/1511708_628894923836450_1991584218_n.jpg\" width=\"558\" height=\"259\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Paintball is a game where players compete as teams or individual to eradicate the opposition by gunning them with water soluble dye and gelatine shell outside. The war zone can be set either indoors or outdoors. The sport got its prominence in USA and is now popular in majority of the countries. The game is popular is most of the metros in India. Here, Bangalore hosts the Paintball Indian open every year in which teams come from all over the world fight for the championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<i>We wanted to introduce something new to Trivandrum<\/i>\u201d, says David about launching \u2018<em><strong>Paintball Trivandrum<\/strong><\/em>\u2019. The company is planning to set the war zone at two places in Trivandrum, i.e Kovalam and Shanghumugham. Works are progressing steadily and it will be open to public soon. To create awareness for the people here, they had conducted \u2018Target Shooting\u2019 at Kanakakunnu palace for around 13 days. Nearly 1300 turned out for the program which included women and kids.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, you don\u2019t have to wait till the war zone gets opened. Paintball Trivandrum will be conducting their first tournament on January 17<sup>th<\/sup> and 18<sup>th<\/sup> at All Saints College for their intercollegiate fest Ascensio! Those who love to have the aroma of a war can check into the tournament and have some real fun! However, the real excitement is yet to begin. The company is planning to introduce more exciting and adventurous sports in the city based on the response for Paintball. They aim to provide high quality adventurous sports for the city. They believe that the city will be a good market for the game and that will inspire them to introduce more innovative ventures here. Let\u2019s wait for more adventures. For the time, we can soak our city in colours!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#EnteThiruvananthapuram: Like to have a taste of some adventurous sports? Well, our city will soon turn into an adventurous sports hub. As a part of it, a group of youngsters come up with a company called \u2018XtremeE SportZ\u2019 with an aim to bring a cluster of extreme adventurous sports to Kerala. 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