Paintball Journal

I came across a few videos on YouTube that I believe are worthy of a post. First of all, I would advise trying this on your first time to the field. Second, I really wouldn’t advise doing this at all.

Here it is: Pains Games Part I

I love the way the guy’s lens is completely covered after a few seconds, and he reloads blind and begins blind firing.

Pain Games Part II

And here is why Ions get a bad wrap from so many experienced players. I remember when Spyders and Tippmanns were entry level to paintball, but now it’s the Ion. Parents walk into the proshop and want a good gun for cheap, and the store owner points them straight to them. This kid gives the good Ion owners a bad name.

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You want footage of the games, but don’t feel like paying $30 for a new DVD after every event? Even though DerDer does an amazing job, most paintballers aren’t made of money. To see some of the action up close and personal from events that you couldn’t get to, check out PBStar. They do an absolutely awesome job over there, with pics, videos, and the latest news, so it’s definitely worth checking them out at least once. You’ll like what you see, I guarantee it. Here is some of the footage from PSP LAO, already up on their site. This particular match is the Final Match between the Ironmen and the Russian Legion.

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EDIT: My apologies, but that is NOT Ironmen vs. Russian Legion. I dunno what happened to my embedded video…

I no longer want the FEP Q7 anymore, I found something newer, sexier, and down right electrifying. Check out this sick “Contract Killer� engraved Shocker! I’ve never seen anything like this before! Not only do the Hybrids have kick ass looks, the artwork on this is frickin’ incredible.

And don’t worry about a hefty price tag – hah! Just messing with you! It has a price of $1,350. That’s not real bad, considering most new guns come around that range, and the regular Hybrid 07 is running about $1,300 right now. So basically you’re paying an extra $50 bucks for a very, very nice engraving.

Yeah, one of those on my dresser would be nice about now – and didn’t I tell you I’m a gun whore wannabe? I’ll be working all summer though, and maybe even before that, so depending on the pay, I hope I can snatch me one of these by the end of summer (and that’s only if they aren’t sold out by then).

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Here are the results from the PSP LA Open, held at the Home Depot Center in Carson, CA last weekend. (Well, technically the 1st - 4th.) Teams from all over the place competed on six fields in the midst of a huge tradeshow, for over $100,000 in cash and prizes. Too bad I don’t live closer to some of these events or I’d be there. $5 a night for tickets, or $15 for the whole event.

A note on the rankings, the Ironmen finally pulled a big win. Looks like the additions of Nicky Cuba and Sean McDonald, along with the amazing Ollie Lang helped pull the Ironmen to the top. Congrats to all the teams that placed.

NXL
1st- Ironmen
2nd- Russian legion
3rd- Dynasty
4th- XSV

D1
1st- Team Impact
2nd-Aftermath
3rd- Bushwackers
4th- Tampa Bay Damage

D2
1st- Denver Altitude
2nd- CDR
3rd- Gridlock
4th- Swatpaintball.com

D3
1st- DBS Kids
2nd- Gridlock black
3rd-Splat Kids
4th- TPA Revolution

D3 5-Man
1st- Stinger factory
2nd- DVS
3rd- Viper Kids
4th- Team Encounter

D4 5-Man
1st- Ballistic
2nd- Keebler Soldiers
3rd- Looseballs
4th- Warbirds

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So apparently these are the teasers for the new FEP Quests coming out – not there isn’t anything wrong with teasers, because wow, those are nice! Rumor has it that they are the private labels for the Miami Raiders, because they have so many stickers hanging there.

As one PBNationer put it, “Ok that settles it, my next gun = Quest.� I might have to second his action, because I have new sites on a marker. Forget the Shocker, forget the Ego, the Q7 is what I want for now.

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Well, well, well. It was only a matter of time before someone came up with the gun that everyone’s been joking about for years. This bow and arrow paintball gun has to be the coolest innovation I’ve seen in a long time. I can already see the Robin Hood Scenarios sprouting up.

I assume the FPS is controlled by the string tension, which would be interesting adjusting at the field. The actual gun is an attachment to your bow, so the set-up is quite expensive. For a decently good bow, it’s around $300, and this attachment is $250. I’d rather have an ‘05 Shocker for the price, thanks much.

For a woodsball type gun though, it has to be hellaciously quiet. Plus, no CO2 or Air fills. And what looks to be a 8 round hopper. After you buy it, there aren’t many more expenses. Depending on how accurate it is, it could well be a scenario paintballer’s dream

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So it’s you first tournament - congratulations – but are you prepared? Here is a list of things that you might like to consider.

8. Are you ready?

Whatever you do, do not walk into a tournament if you or any of your teammates are not ready to throw it down. Go in like you have everything to lose.

7. How is your gear?

Still shooting woodsball level guns? Nothing is saying you can’t use them, but chances are that you’ll face teams shooting guns a lot fast than you, and as much as I hate to say it, speed does matter to a certain degree.

6. Physically – are you fit?

If you plan on playing serious paintball, getting in shape is a must. Not only will your strength hold after a long day, you won’t be as sore afterwards. A lot of times, teams will begin to wear down towards the end, start playing sloppy. This is where you can capitalize.

5. Is the money and ride secured?

Don’t be scrounging for money the night before a tournament, and definitely plan a designated driver days in advance. There is nothing worse than waking up finding that you don’t have a ride.

4. Is everything working and packed?

Make sure the batteries are fresh, all the electronics – hoppers, guns, etc. – are working properly, and then check it off on a list. Do not tinker with things if they are working, something bad will inevitably happen.

3. So you made it – are you intimidated?

It’s natural to be intimidated by flashy guns, jerseys, and angry looking people, but don’t worry about it too much. When we walked in with our Ions, I couldn’t help but feel some sort of shame, for everybody was shooting Egos, Timmies, Pms, Dms, Shockers – and it just felt bad shooting something so low-grade. But we got out there, and we did our stuff.

2. Do you know how to walk a field?

If you don’t, find a guide on the internet. Walking the field and memorizing it inside out, upside down is a thing you must know how to do. Learn the angles, the key positions, everything about it; it can only help you in the long run.

1. The final step.

So you’re lined up, seconds away from breaking and every thought is screaming at you. The clock counts down the last few seconds, which tick by as minutes in your mind, and finally the buzzer sounds. What do you do? What can you do?

The only thing left is for you to get out there, AND MOW SOME FACES! It’s too late to turn back now, and so while you’re there, you might as well make some people see who is boss. Don’t be afraid to try risky moves. Challenge them, and dominate the field. If you are going to lose, do it running down field, gun blazing away. What is possibly stopping you? Nothing.

Let go all fear, doubt, and disbelief.

This is one of the coolest paintball sequences I’ve ever seen. Evan says he recognizes a lot of the sound bits from some video games, but they’re really well integrated. The coloring and video editing of the whole movie is just incredible. Take a look.

The next Young Gunz tournament at friendly fire will be two weekends from now, March 11th. For a while we were talking about skipping this one, because we weren’t sure if we could pull a third man. But now that they have expanded the field (or supposed to by then), we really wanted to play it, so we got the word out and found some other friends that can make it.

The January 28th was played on the smaller field, and we pretty much played defensively all day. Our guns weren’t nearly as fast as the DMs, PMs, Egos, and Timmies, so we let them come to us, and it worked pretty well for the most part.

Now, though, we want to bring the game to them. Playing our last practice really gave us a mental boost, and we plan on playing a lot more aggressive. If the field is expanded by then, then we’ll have a lot more room to move, and we’re going t be looking to get down field fairly quick and in unison. I can’t say that it will work for sure, but I think it might surprise a lot of teams that simply underestimate us.

My three personal goals are:
1. Play much more aggressively
2. Place in the finals
3. Don’t get my face blown off like a noob

It’s highly, highly unlikely that we would take first, even second, but third or fourth we can do; that I’m confident of. So that’s my goal, get into the finals with aggressive play.

As from DerDer’s Obscure Influence:

There are too many crazy f***ers running around with guns, talking about shooting people.

But it’s more than that. Everybody that plays paintball is to some degree an adrenaline junkie, and no one can deny that rush you get when you play. Sometimes it makes you do crazy things like run down the field towards several people shooting streams of paint at you. And sometimes it makes you do crazy stuff like this:

NPPL has released the field layouts for the 2007 Huntington Beach event. Most are pretty generic, snake side and dorito with stuff in between. You know, the usual layout. But then there were two that caught my eye: the Spyder Field and the Bawls Field.

The Spyder field is just down right weird for an NPPL event. It has like…this diamond thing made up of pipe bunkers, or whatever you’d like to call them, sitting right on the entire left side of the field, right on the fifty. That’s not real uncommon, but then they have another pipe connecting the left side doll house to a right fifty stand up wedge. Bah, I can’t explain it, just look at the picture!

The Bawls Field has a double snake going, but both are fairly short. It seems like an interesting field to play, and should match up some wicked battles as both teams try to fit players in them.

Anyways, here are the links to the rest of the fields.

NPPL
Angel
JT
Eclipse