Soon after, he began driving carloads of his students down to Shelton on the weekends to play paintball. He quickly realized that the sport was too expensive for most kids to play, so he and his wife, Margaret, bought 10 full sets of rental equipment for the students to use. Paradise Paintball was born. Before long the business had grown so large that Woodd had to quit his job at the high school to devote himself full-time to paintball. Besides, everybody comes to me to have fun.
Paintball is a really great sport.
Yes, Woodd misses the interaction that he had with his students at school. Someday, in fact, he would like to get back into the profession, perhaps owning his own charter high school. But until then, running the paintball shop and the adjacent fields fill that void in his life. This offers me a chance to be in the community. Paradise Paintball, which hosts various tournaments throughout the year, brings more than half of a million dollars to the city annually.