Flex 7 bad experience
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Topic: Flex 7 bad experience
Posted By: raflexjrsr
Subject: Flex 7 bad experience
Date Posted: 08 January 2007 at 9:48pm
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Well, the thing is that I was very excited one sunday morning out on a speedball field, waiting for the 3..2..1..FIRE!. I had just bought a new JT Flex 7, thinking that every single paintball would bounce when it hit my new soft googles, when... The game starts and I run towards the snake, my gun falls down, I stop to grab it and a string of paintballs comes directly to my face (I just make a declaration: I'm not that bad at painball, but I forgot my marker at home and had to use a stock 98custom at a speedball game against angels, shockers, PM6, etc).
As you can imagine the soft mask didn't worked at all giving me a painfull lesson (just imagine a cheek with 5 nice, red, round circles). IF YOU USE THIS KIND OF MASK BE CAREFULL ------------- Mods, please give me a title Sig's too large and no. <mod> excuse my spellyng, I am not a natibe speeker |
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Posted By: Snake6
Date Posted: 08 January 2007 at 9:50pm
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Did the balls break on the mask?
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Posted By: kickinwing2010
Date Posted: 08 January 2007 at 9:56pm
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Was it so soft they hit your face threw the mask???
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Posted By: ShortyBP
Date Posted: 08 January 2007 at 9:59pm
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That's the trade off for comfort.
I gamble with that every time I swap bottoms on my Spectra to a Flex-7 bottom during the hotter months of the year. They can be very unforgiving sometimes. |
Posted By: raflexjrsr
Date Posted: 08 January 2007 at 10:00pm
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the mask was quite far from my face so the lower part of it (the one with many litle holes) kinda folds and lets the paintballs pass directly to my face.
------------- Mods, please give me a title Sig's too large and no. <mod> excuse my spellyng, I am not a natibe speeker |
Posted By: Snake6
Date Posted: 08 January 2007 at 10:03pm
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So did the balls break?
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Posted By: raflexjrsr
Date Posted: 08 January 2007 at 10:08pm
Yes, I know. After this I won't use it any more. I'll get a DYE maybe? ------------- Mods, please give me a title Sig's too large and no. <mod> excuse my spellyng, I am not a natibe speeker |
ShortyBP wrote:Posted By: raflexjrsr
Date Posted: 08 January 2007 at 10:12pm
yes, directly on my cheek. Belive me, it's by far the most painfull place to get hit (besides somewhere else oĦo) 
------------- Mods, please give me a title Sig's too large and no. <mod> excuse my spellyng, I am not a natibe speeker |
Posted By: kickinwing2010
Date Posted: 08 January 2007 at 10:33pm
The back of the head right???? -------------
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Posted By: raflexjrsr
Date Posted: 08 January 2007 at 11:34pm
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exactly^ ------------- Mods, please give me a title Sig's too large and no. <mod> excuse my spellyng, I am not a natibe speeker |
Posted By: Mr. Heckler
Date Posted: 09 January 2007 at 6:25pm
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Not quite what I was thinking, I must admit. The inner thigh is one of the worst I've ever taken. ------------- The Tippmann Forums.....My Anti-Drug. -98Custom -Flatline -6-Position Collapsible Stock -32 Degrees Remote Hose -Crossman Red Dot |
Posted By: usafpilot07
Date Posted: 09 January 2007 at 6:46pm
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I have to wonder if you were wearing it properly. Unless you decided to wear your mask loosely AND do that stupid Agg roll-up of the flex bottom, I fail to see how five paintballs could all make their way directly to your cheek. unless of course your head was parallel to the ground with your chin to the opposing team. Though, I don't see how that would aid you in picking up your marker.
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Posted By: pattison
Date Posted: 09 January 2007 at 8:16pm
i freaking hate getting hit in the adams apple. the few times i have been hit in the neck have all been crappy. ------------- Eat The Brisket |
Posted By: raflexjrsr
Date Posted: 09 January 2007 at 8:50pm
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once I got hit directly on my nail. That is the 3rd most painful place to get hit. (well, you don't really know untill you get hit) ------------- Mods, please give me a title Sig's too large and no. <mod> excuse my spellyng, I am not a natibe speeker |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 09 January 2007 at 10:38pm
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I've had one or two push the flex mask in to my cheek before, but it is
very rare. Now, the Flex7 ICE masks were far more flexible and allowed the balls to travel closer before breaking. I love my flex-7 though, Number one, it's WAAAAY old-school 'Red' and 2, I've had a ton of bounces that I don't get away with on my profiler. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: tecumseh
Date Posted: 10 January 2007 at 12:46am
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yea i was playing with some filthy cheaters. i was running to a
dorito on the left and i shot someone out and i saw him wipe. so i
started yelling to the ref that he wiped and the ref was going to give
a paint check and then he opened up on me and it shot my mask sideways
and it fell off and went sideways onto my shoulder and i got nailed
with a rope that went down along my left side of my face and one hit my
teeth and my chin.
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Posted By: raflexjrsr
Date Posted: 10 January 2007 at 1:13am
did your mask fell off? ------------- Mods, please give me a title Sig's too large and no. <mod> excuse my spellyng, I am not a natibe speeker |