Your Starting Out Story
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Topic: Your Starting Out Story
Posted By: Tipp Research
Subject: Your Starting Out Story
Date Posted: 14 March 2007 at 1:22pm
| Tell us your starting out story. Think back to the first time you played paintball… What was it that got you hooked? Did someone invite you to play? Did you just try it on your own? Was it a backyard game or at a field? What got you into the game? |
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 14 March 2007 at 1:51pm
| Who are you? Are you trying to get info for a school paper or something? I'm sure if you were an official tippmann rep, we'd know. So whats your story? |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 14 March 2007 at 1:55pm
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Alright, I'll bite.
The first time I played paintball was back when I was 13 years old. The local field had just dropped it's 18-and-over rule and my best friend was having a belated (spring) birthday and took 3 of us along with him. We were issued JT whipper masks with the soft-foam throat protectors that hung from the bottom of the mask by wire-ties, Tippmann Pro-Ams and 200 rounds a piece. We wound up being out there with 4 other guys, so we played several 4-on-4 games for the whole day. Now, you must remember that this was back in the "golden-age" that most of the older players refer to. There were no electro-pneumatic markers, no agitated hoppers, and fewer worries about non-merited law-suits. We played on a field that used old gutted farm houses, barns, school buses, trailers, etc for the main structures and pallets and 55gal drums as well as hand-dug fox-holes for the cover in between. We played all types of games. Everything from capture the flag to house-assaults, protect the president, find the sniper, etc. and from the moment the first round went past my head with that now very familiar buzzing sound, I was hooked. The thing that has kept me in the sport is the adrenaline rush as well as the wonderfully painful feeling you get after a day's play. From that simple walk-on style rec game over 14 years ago, I have gone on to captain my University's NCPA team, Played on Amateur A and B NPPL Teams, teched and sold equipment on the retail end of the industry, and played with some of the best players of the time. Now, I play in the local tournament series and am looking to get into the CFOA series to expand my tournament play even more. If I could make a comfortable living in this sport, I would. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: Dye Playa
Date Posted: 14 March 2007 at 2:12pm
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i was about 12 and my my brother was around 9, and i just got into a bad bike accident. so i was young, and i had gauze pads all over my face, and every time i put them on, they stuck and i had to rip them off my face. so my dad wants to bandage it again, i tell him no it's going to stick to my cuts, and he bets me a hundred it won't. it did. so a few weeks later he was tellin me about how he used to play paintball, and he's like, ya know what, i owe you 100, so we go to walmart and get 3 30 dollar blade starter packs, with the 45 round hoppers and 12gram co2's, for me, my dad, and my brother. we play in the yard, everyone loves it, we start doing it every weekend. that christmas i got a tippmann, slowly tricked it out, then my brother did and so did my dad. later i bought a dm5, my bro himself a proto, and my dad bough himself an autococker. i played/play local tournements, rec ball, anything i can, and now everyone loves it. that's my story. ------------- 
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Posted By: oreomann33
Date Posted: 14 March 2007 at 2:30pm
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My first time was with a swedish exchange student.
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Posted By: Justice
Date Posted: 14 March 2007 at 2:55pm
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Was invited by friends. Used a Brass Eagle tallon. First shot I did was a face shot when he was running. I was hooked. ------------- 
-JUSTICE http://www.myspace.com/outkastpaintball - Outkast Myspace |
Posted By: Da Hui
Date Posted: 14 March 2007 at 3:04pm
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Friends birthday, rented a gun, we all enjoyed. We all got guns and started playing. ------------- 
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Posted By: ANARCHY_SCOUT
Date Posted: 14 March 2007 at 5:58pm
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oreomann33 wrote:Posted By: cadet_sergeant
Date Posted: 14 March 2007 at 7:26pm
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my first time was when i pretended to be a swedish exchange student.
basicly it was me and my twin brothers b-day, we got 8 kids rounded up and played for about 4 hours at a local field. i was hooked. |
Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 14 March 2007 at 7:38pm
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Outside with Friends in the woods about 6 years ago. I then went to an indoor field like an hour and a half away after about a year. I was hooked, my friends stopped. I played my first 3 man tourney around this time. I played monthly or so until 2 years ago. I then started playing every weekend. I have been practicing with some very good 5 and 7 man teams for that whole time. Last year I started out doing the first two NEPL tournaments of the year until I guess I sucked to much to be on that team. I continued to play every weekend and last Sunday tried out for a 5 man "organization". They have 4 teams and I will play my first full NEPL season this year.
I followed the way Tallen did his post, so whatever. ------------- Que pasa? 
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Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 14 March 2007 at 7:43pm
| Played some ghetto woodsball at snowboard camp, all the guns were shooting hot, my mask fogged up constantly, my gun chopped, I loved it. |
Posted By: kickinwing2010
Date Posted: 14 March 2007 at 7:55pm
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Got my gun for christmas when I was 13 and I was invited to go with a bunch of friends. Then a kid I don't like at all found out we were going and showed up, first game hes running down the side and I bonus balled him mostly out of panic but he had a bunch of bruses and thats how I became hooked.
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Posted By: White o Light
Date Posted: 14 March 2007 at 8:04pm
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Im not swedish... ------------- 
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Posted By: hybrid-sniper
Date Posted: 14 March 2007 at 8:15pm
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Friends convinced me to go, I rented a horribly inaccurate 98C and went out in the sticks and got destroyed. Foolishly, I continued playing and have spent an insane amount of money on it. |
Posted By: VBHARDCORE
Date Posted: 14 March 2007 at 8:24pm
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Thought paintball was retarded and a border line dungeons and dragons geek thing to do. A coworker got me to go after bugging me for a while. Took a neck shot on the first day. Too stupid and ignorant to know better, fell in love and spent a small fortune on it.
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Posted By: Skillet42565
Date Posted: 14 March 2007 at 9:33pm
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I got my start in the woods, but I didnt really get hooked until I went to play on the local field, where I was bunkered on my arse my first game. Now I play almost every weekend.
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Posted By: kuhndog599
Date Posted: 14 March 2007 at 9:53pm
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My friend thought it was the most retarded thing in the world and thought it was the biggest waste of money. Now he's the one who shoots the most. ------------- model 98 - homemade handguard solid stock - opsgear mag polished internals homemade sling - paintjob operator barrel progressive barrel opsgear mag - stock |
Posted By: Destruction
Date Posted: 14 March 2007 at 10:48pm
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My friend told me about it, and I thought it sounded really fun because I always liked playing "guns" when I was a kid. I bought a 98, played two weekends in a row on my frined's 120 acre property, loved the adrenaline rush, and then began to upgrade my 98. Since then, I've crossed over into pump/stock class play because I find it to be so much more fun and rewarding. ------------- u dont know what to do ur getting mottor boatted Men are from Magmar, women are from Venusaur. |
Posted By: Ken Majors
Date Posted: 14 March 2007 at 11:26pm
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My first time was 1987 when I was in the Army. Couple of guys had splatmasters (the old green plastic ones) and the rest used sling shots. We used the old Army dust goggles and played in one of the training areas at Fort Stewart.
I bought my son a Brass Eagle Stingray (that still works) in 1995 or so. He stuck with it so in 1999 we got a Model 98, then another, and another, and then an A-5, then an Ion, then a Tac-One, then a PM5, then another Automag, Emag, 68 special, SL68II, and man we have had a lot of paintball guns. ------------- RLTW |
Posted By: You Wont See Me
Date Posted: 14 March 2007 at 11:39pm
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I bout my gun before I ever played, or seen it played. From then on other peopel started buying them, and we played. ------------- A-5 E-Grip JCS Dual Trigger DOP X-CORE 8 stage x-chamber Lapco Bigshot 14" Beadblasted Optional setup: R/T Dead on Blade trigger |
Posted By: stick_boy_2002
Date Posted: 15 March 2007 at 1:45am
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i was about 12 or 13, for the first game i remember. i had just bought a sting ray 2 from wall mart. played in a junk yard down the road. what hooked me was you got to use in some form a "gun" and anyting that involves shooting im instantly hooked.
that and it turns out its one of the only things im good at ------------- 
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Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 15 March 2007 at 8:11am
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My brother, father, sister and I got talons for christmas one year. we went out in the snow with our 10 round tubes and 12 gram co2 cartridges and played around for a while. It was awesome. Stayed at it, and here I am. |
Posted By: pntbl freak
Date Posted: 15 March 2007 at 11:20am
| Someones birthday at a local field where they rented out 98 customs. At Christmas time I got my own 98 to play with. 6 years later I still have that very 98. |
Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 17 March 2007 at 2:39pm
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I was stationed in the UK in '85 and the MWR (Morale. Welfare and Recreation) office promoted a trip to the first commercial paintball field to open in the country. They gave us Spatmasters and shop goggles and broke us up into teams of about two dozen each. Since it was a joint AF and Army trip, it was decided the teams would be AF vs. Army all day (bad). I and one other member of the AF side were security police (SP), everyone else were admin troops or cooks or stuff like that (very bad). The first game the Army guys left their flag unguarded and charged off through the woods to get our flag. They arrived before our team had even organized and when they came screaming into our base everyone but the other SP and I turned and ran away (very very bad). Our defense of the flag lasted aboout 3 seconds and we got shot a lot. For some reason, I thought this was fun, and have been hooked ever since. (Although I did take about a 12 year break when I got back to the states because I had to wait for paintball to catch on at the places I was stationed.)
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Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 17 March 2007 at 3:32pm
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I was invited to my friends birthday party at his house and played in has back yard. After that, I returned once more to play paintball again, and eventually was given a 98. ------------- 
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Posted By: Shadowminion
Date Posted: 17 March 2007 at 5:22pm
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I was about 28 or 29 and going to a Technical school full time at nights . This was around 1989 . Some friends mentioned "How cool it would to be to go out and play some paintball " They had heard of a place to go play . We planned a trip out to go see , and we all picked up some kind of marker , my friends got a couple of the green Splatmasters and I found a PGP , we loaded up on ammo and CO2 cartridges and went hunting the game ! (I think we in total had maybe 500 rounds for all three of us) . My first game was "Indoors" Urban style in an old abandoned university building with LOTS of hallways , closets and bunches of smallish rooms . It was dark except for the few lightbulbs that still functioned , you could barely see sillouettes , shapes as people moved . Careful movement and listening identified the people in front of me as friends or Foes . As often as not , I was eliminated by my team , and likewise "Buck fever" (on my part) got a few of my team eliminated by friendly fire too . I felt badly about hitting my own teammates , but felt strangely proud of the shots I had to make to hit them !! I promised myself I would try extremely hard to not do anymore FF eliminations . ever since then , I've tried to improve my game ( with some Hiatuses of several years inbetween ) with some sucess . My second game outdoors in a wooded Utah canyon is what got the game firmly under my skin , I rigged up a burlap Ghille suit and crawled under a half dead bush and camped , it worked ,,,, the first guy up the trail got out , but his partner made short work of me after that . When you crawl under a thick bush , you can't up and run like you thought you could Snipers do exist in paintball , but fact is , they dont live long ------------- SL68-II , micro honed and polished .688" bore . Tuff Enuf . Widowmaker , under construction |
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Posted By: the_blade
Date Posted: 18 March 2007 at 1:26am
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what really got me hooked is the first round i stepped out onto the feild i was in a close quarters paint throwing fight where we where just ducking and raising are heads and shooting and i watched one of my paint balls just hit him right in the lense and it was just so cool hearing him say "nice shot kid" ------------- 95 base neon 3.0 cai, knifedged crankshaft 60 mill throttle body,14 crane cam crane springs/retainers eagle rods port matched/ polished intake p&p head shaved .015 phantom grip diff dohc exuast |
Posted By: Schlockmerc
Date Posted: 19 March 2007 at 12:21pm
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I was at a friends house. We went to the gravel pit out back and just started blasting each other (Black Maxx sucks) I got lit, and fell in love with the adrenaline rush. ------------- George Zimmer is a sexy mother |
Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 19 March 2007 at 12:26pm
| In high school, my friends and I were always talking about wanting to try paintball. There are no fields around here, and very few stores. We bought a couple of Brass Eagle Tiger Sharks at Wally World and had at it in the woods/corn field behind our one friend's house. |