vikingshadow
06-10-2006, 06:02 PM
Ok, yes, this may be a bit of a post whoring thing, but I'm bored from cleaning carpets so I thought I'd just type a bit....oh well! Read it or not, I don't care. At least I'm not cleaning carpets! :D
I realize this is in the Vets forum, but it's all paintball related, so yeah. Feel free to add any little tidbits of personal paintball news you like to this thread....sort of a gossip newsletter thing. Who knows? It might work!
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Today I was out at the field just standing around waiting for some older players to possibly show up (which none did, so no playing for me! :( ) but this group of kids came up to me and asked what they could do to get me to be their coach! They apparantly think I'm a pretty decent player! How cool is that?
Don't think I'm gonna do it, because I know their parents and the first time one of them got bunkered they'd be all over me like stink on poo. Also, in my experience, it'd be hard to get them to practice as much as they need to (they really need it! They're not so good....) But, maybe! I just think it's awesome someone thinks I'm good enough to teach them and train them...I just don't think I could handle staying on the sidelines during a tournament.
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Oh, check this out! My youngest daughter found an oring on the floor in the living room and brought to me and TOLD me that she had found this "tank oring on the floor." It cracked me up because I thought she never paid any attention to stuff, and she knew what a tank oring was! And she was RIGHT!
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Been using my phantom a lot - mainly shooting targets because no one is playing around here - but I've been using the 3.5 tank on it. I think I like it more than that 12 grams!
I was shooting at the target range with my Phantom today and there was a crack in the fence about 3 inches wide and about 40 feet away, so I thought I'd use that as my target. These guys were watching me and I put the first 5 right through the crack (I amazed myself actually!) The next two were right next to the crack and then the next two through the crack again. Those guys were oooing and ahhhhing like crazy - I overheard a couple of them say "good thing he's not playing today!" LOL! If they only knew how lucky those shots were....
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Well, I'm coming out of tournament retirement for one more tournament. The TAP Indoor is next month and I talked my ex-teammate into playing it with me. Apparantly, the team isn't doing as much since I left - not even practicing or playing tournaments, although they've been working on this tournament they put on at our field last weekend. I think he's dying to play an awesome tournament.
It was an open tournament last year, but apparantly, it's just going to be a novice level tournament this year. Sucks - we played people like Oklahoma Impact, B-Unit (they won the Texas PSP division whatever this year!) Justice League, Karnage Factory from Missouri, and others last year, but it looks like they can't play this year...
So stay tuned for updates on how it goes!
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"Of The Month" contests coming up in a week or two, so make sure you get some pictures for them. For those who don't know - we have these contests where you can post pics of your Spyder, your NON Spyder, and action pictures of you playing paintball.
That being said, I'm getting the new Slik trigger from NDZ for my Shocker, in the hopes that I can steadily maintain a higher rate of fire than 15 bps (so I don't have to ramp in this next tournament...ramping is capped at 15, but non ramping isn't capped - kind of weird, but oh well!) I also like the looks of the trigger, so we'll see what it looks like on the Shocker....
I realize this is in the Vets forum, but it's all paintball related, so yeah. Feel free to add any little tidbits of personal paintball news you like to this thread....sort of a gossip newsletter thing. Who knows? It might work!
************
Today I was out at the field just standing around waiting for some older players to possibly show up (which none did, so no playing for me! :( ) but this group of kids came up to me and asked what they could do to get me to be their coach! They apparantly think I'm a pretty decent player! How cool is that?
Don't think I'm gonna do it, because I know their parents and the first time one of them got bunkered they'd be all over me like stink on poo. Also, in my experience, it'd be hard to get them to practice as much as they need to (they really need it! They're not so good....) But, maybe! I just think it's awesome someone thinks I'm good enough to teach them and train them...I just don't think I could handle staying on the sidelines during a tournament.
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Oh, check this out! My youngest daughter found an oring on the floor in the living room and brought to me and TOLD me that she had found this "tank oring on the floor." It cracked me up because I thought she never paid any attention to stuff, and she knew what a tank oring was! And she was RIGHT!
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Been using my phantom a lot - mainly shooting targets because no one is playing around here - but I've been using the 3.5 tank on it. I think I like it more than that 12 grams!
I was shooting at the target range with my Phantom today and there was a crack in the fence about 3 inches wide and about 40 feet away, so I thought I'd use that as my target. These guys were watching me and I put the first 5 right through the crack (I amazed myself actually!) The next two were right next to the crack and then the next two through the crack again. Those guys were oooing and ahhhhing like crazy - I overheard a couple of them say "good thing he's not playing today!" LOL! If they only knew how lucky those shots were....
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Well, I'm coming out of tournament retirement for one more tournament. The TAP Indoor is next month and I talked my ex-teammate into playing it with me. Apparantly, the team isn't doing as much since I left - not even practicing or playing tournaments, although they've been working on this tournament they put on at our field last weekend. I think he's dying to play an awesome tournament.
It was an open tournament last year, but apparantly, it's just going to be a novice level tournament this year. Sucks - we played people like Oklahoma Impact, B-Unit (they won the Texas PSP division whatever this year!) Justice League, Karnage Factory from Missouri, and others last year, but it looks like they can't play this year...
So stay tuned for updates on how it goes!
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"Of The Month" contests coming up in a week or two, so make sure you get some pictures for them. For those who don't know - we have these contests where you can post pics of your Spyder, your NON Spyder, and action pictures of you playing paintball.
That being said, I'm getting the new Slik trigger from NDZ for my Shocker, in the hopes that I can steadily maintain a higher rate of fire than 15 bps (so I don't have to ramp in this next tournament...ramping is capped at 15, but non ramping isn't capped - kind of weird, but oh well!) I also like the looks of the trigger, so we'll see what it looks like on the Shocker....