Reports are coming in from various sporting websites that professional basketball player and San Antonio Spurs star, Tim Duncan is a bit of a paintball player! An article that will run in the newest edition of Sports Illustrated by Chris Ballard mentions this story: “O.K., it’s a toss-up as to how this will make you [...]

There is a growing systemic problem in the paintball community which I feel needs to be addressed: the education and retention of new players. At the present moment too many players lack the fundamental skills of playing; necessary knowledge base to be truly competent paintball players; and lack an organization that would allow them to [...]

No, paintball isn’t on ESPN anymore. Yes, fields are closing. Yes, people are quitting, retiring, and playing less due to a tough economy. Our sport, however, is far from dying. New players are falling in love with this game every day, but the people who love it already have only to bring their friends for [...]

NPPL, we know you’re trying. We see that you’ve attempted to up your reffing, you’ve changed formats to meet many people in the middle of the format war, you made a big stride in forcing teams to use electronics that regulate rate of fire – and you’ve even promised that these numbers will provide cool [...]

The other day I was talking to one of my old-time teammates (we were both members of a 15 player pump team known as the Werewolves of NJ/PA that was selected as one of PBX3’s Top 50 Teams of All Time – you may never have heard of that team, but the boys and girls [...]

The dust has settled, words have been exchanged, and friendships broken. Toward the end of the 2011 paintball season, a once dominant team – Chicago Aftershock, lost a total of five veteran players. The names amongst this team migration consisted of Brad McCurly, Drew Templeton, Damien Ryan, Chris Sosine & Zack Patient. All of which [...]

Here is a topic I see all the time come up in the forums and chat rooms, as well as hear about at the field – HK Army, their fanboys, and agglettes. Before I go any further, I want to point out that anything I state in here is my personal view, the author, and [...]

Do any of you out there have that one guy at your field; maybe he is on your team or maybe a player or ref? It’s that one guy that can’t seem to switch between rec mode and tournament mode? Who, at every given chance lights up everyone he sees, be it new player, renter, [...]