Although many people don’t realize it, paintball is an extremely athletic game that takes both mental and physical agility to come out on top. Think about it, the best players out there are running, crouching, crawling, diving, sliding, and shapshooting. So if you’re feeling like your game is lagging because you’re a bit out of [...]
Archive for October, 2010
Exercising To Be a Better Paintball Player
Posted: 28th October 2010 by Ajax Union in Paintball TipsTags: carbon fiber tanks, paintball air tank, paintball air tanks, paintball tanks, paintball valve
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It’s Breast Cancer Awareness month, and paintball tank enthusiasts are getting involved. For the second year at Fantasy of Flight, participants were given the opportunity to take part in “Take Aim at Breast Cancer.” This program, which was created to honor the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, gives paintballers a preloaded round of pink and [...]
The Ghillie Suit
Posted: 27th October 2010 by Ajax Union in paintball tanksTags: paintball air tanks, paintball tanks
When playing woodsball with your paintball tanks and markers, you want to stay concealed to have the edge over your opponents. What’s the most hardcore way of staying concealed? Why, the ghillie suit, of course. The ghillie suit, also known as yowie suit or camo tent, has long been used in hunting and military operations [...]
Paintball Economic News: Paintball Tanks, Gear and More
Posted: 25th October 2010 by Ajax Union in PaintballTags: carbon fiber tanks, paintball air tank, paintball air tanks, paintball tanks, paintball valve
A new press report from a small company called Flexpoint shows that they have taken an order with an additional follow up for 15,000 sensors to be used as counters in the hoppers of paint guns. This opening of the paintball valve should help the Pacific Northwest company and the paintball air tank market as [...]
Be Kind to the Noobs: A Lesson in Etiquette
Posted: 25th October 2010 by KristenM in paintball tanks, Paintball TipsTags: air tank
Yes, we all enjoy the thrill of the easiest paintball target: the noob. He’s easy to spot, he asks too many questions, his paintball gun is unsteady, and it wouldn’t surprise you if he filled his paintball air tank wrong and you’re waiting for an explosion. Despite the urge to take him out, remember that [...]
Abuser Of Paintball Materials Arrested
Posted: 21st October 2010 by EricM in UncategorizedTags: Paintball, paintball markers
As a paintball fan, this is the kind of stuff I hate to see. A teenager by the name of Matheus Carvalho was arrested in Fort Myers for fleeing police deputies, resisting officers, driving without a license, and giving false identification. The reason the police were originally looking for Carvalho? He and a friend were [...]
Women in Paintball
Posted: 21st October 2010 by Ajax Union in Paintball, paintball tanks, Paintball TipsTags: carbon fiber tanks, paintball air tank, paintball air tanks, paintball tanks, paintball valve
Like most sports, paintball is generally considered to be male dominated, leaving many women who are interested in playing the sport, quite intimidated. But over the course of the last 10 years, women have really made it known that paintball isn’t just a men’s sport. In nearly every major paintball tournament their is an all-female [...]
All About Camouflage
Posted: 20th October 2010 by Ajax Union in Guerrilla AirTags: carbon fiber tanks, paintball air tank, paintball air tanks, paintball tanks, paintball valve
If you’re playing paintball in the woods with your paintball tanks and markers, you wear suits splotched with green, brown, tan, and black to blend into your surrounding environment. Woodsball is a cat and mouse game, and so camouflage is essential for remaining undetected. The word camouflage comes from the French word camoufler, which means [...]
Las Vegas for Paintball Championships!
Posted: 18th October 2010 by Ajax Union in Guerrilla AirTags: carbon fiber tanks, paintball air tank, paintball air tanks, paintball tanks, paintball valve
Las Vegas hosted the World Paintball Championships. Whereas in the old days of paintball, the tournament was held in desert scrub under the brutally hot sun; and in 2003, it moved to a huge facility at the south end of the strip; today the tournament was moved to a slightly smaller (4 instead of 5) [...]
Flying With Your Paintball Air Tanks and Markers
Posted: 14th October 2010 by Ajax Union in Guerrilla Air, paintball tanks, Paintball TipsTags: carbon fiber tanks, paintball air tank, paintball air tanks, paintball tanks, paintball valve
A few posts ago, we talked about vacation paintball destinations, and it got us thinking—how does one go about bringing paintball air tanks on an airplane? Well after a bit of research, we found a good deal of information on TSA regulations and paintball equipment. Our hopes were low, since, well, TSA won’t let you [...]