tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123396185750004952024-02-02T07:59:11.395-08:00thepaintballagendaFIGHT LIFE SPORTShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08834686405731051712noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412339618575000495.post-6340581606911097292012-04-02T21:35:00.000-07:002012-04-02T21:35:26.531-07:00IM BACK.... IN PAINTBALL... JUST A LIL BIT...More to come... Busy busy these days.. i hope i get a chance to get back to these roots and stay maintained this time.
Lots to think about, lots to tell about.
Great seeing some old faces @ the NPPL HB event.. small, but good. Moving forward and upward!
http://www.contractkillerclothing.com/shop/cart.php?m=product_list&c=11FIGHT LIFE SPORTShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08834686405731051712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412339618575000495.post-90090350041526799012009-11-06T13:18:00.000-08:002009-11-06T13:40:39.596-08:00PERSPECTIVESBy Chris CorcinoI will start the rant.Like I said before, it has to all be in perspective, the perspective of the manufacturers, the dealers, the general public and of course paintball in the world view.Let’s look at the manufacturers’ perspective. It is safe to say that GI MIL-SIM is the first to re-launch a truly controversial product (the .50 caliber paintball) since it actually cannot comply FIGHT LIFE SPORTShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08834686405731051712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412339618575000495.post-31368111916484098092009-10-31T11:38:00.000-07:002009-10-31T14:02:46.231-07:00Who's the amb"ASS"ador now?Ok, so I got up this morning and as usual, I got on line and read all of my favorite paintball sites for the latest rumors, stories and the hottest turbo up grade board for my already "gray area" marker. Our friends over at ProPaintball.com have an interview with Nicky Cuba that was conducted by SavePaintball.org. One of the questions asked not only by SavePaintball.org but also by Unknownnoreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412339618575000495.post-51093357204466253272009-09-28T17:38:00.000-07:002009-09-28T17:39:40.770-07:00CK2 TrailerWatch, drool, purchase.(I will post a review [biased though it may be] after the general release)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412339618575000495.post-81872747678551665992009-09-23T12:33:00.001-07:002009-09-23T12:48:24.452-07:00How to save Tournament PaintballI know this is going to be met with controversy, but that's what puts butts in the seats and gets the dialog going.I have a radical idea for how to increase the numbers of attending teams and players for national and local tournament circuits and in turn infuse our industry with much needed cheddar.Pay the Pro's. Pay them a decent, living wage, for now. Pay them as well as possible and keep Unknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412339618575000495.post-64555770576492772492009-07-07T10:01:00.000-07:002009-07-07T10:02:48.224-07:00IN THE SUBJECT OF FIGHTINGFIGHT LIFE SPORTShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08834686405731051712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412339618575000495.post-25806567340340187522009-06-09T13:48:00.000-07:002009-06-09T13:54:38.828-07:00Initial thoughts on .50 Caliber Paintball.Let's just keep splitting paintball in two until we get a small, thermo-nuclear explosion.I'll have popcorn and sparklers. Come on by!Then, paintball will have come full circle, and the meaning of this 30 year ride will reveal itself when a lone Park Ranger truck pulls on to an empty country road. The truck pulls to the side and the ranger gets out of his truck, pulls a shiny Lasoya ST-Ripper Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412339618575000495.post-78125360077684885782009-05-18T09:20:00.000-07:002009-05-18T09:33:01.920-07:00Why Paintball May Be Banned in Germany (Continued)This report came to me as an email on the current report on Germanys ban on paintball by Lars HerzigGeschäftsführer / Managing Directorhttp://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_single_mediaplayer/0,,4255121_start_436_end_791_type_video_struct_3217_contentId_4246809,00.htmPaintball is a modern way to play cops and robbers, only here the guns used to eliminate opponents fire paint pellets. People who FIGHT LIFE SPORTShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08834686405731051712noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412339618575000495.post-48162024208033795482009-05-11T10:43:00.000-07:002009-05-11T11:43:37.725-07:00MAO Heard 'Round the World!So, I am a week removed from the PSP's Mid Atlantic Open, and I figure it's time I wrote about it. I'm still waiting for Lambertson to finish his post about the UWL a few weeks ago, so I can write my impression and tell everybody how much he's lying about everything. So, in the meantime, here's my report:It was great!Thanks! And I'll see you guys next week.Ok, so maybe there's more I can writeUnknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412339618575000495.post-30428642146441900072009-04-21T12:10:00.000-07:002009-04-21T16:31:12.809-07:00Fix the Reffing, Fix the GameThis is the blog post that gets me in to trouble. Before we dive all the way in, let me spell out some caveats and things that should go without saying. First, my personal tournament playing experience is very limited. My experience reffing tournaments outstrips it, but that's not really saying much. I'm coming at this not from a player's stand point, and not from a ref's stand point; but in Unknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412339618575000495.post-70417931437204244642009-04-16T18:01:00.000-07:002009-04-16T20:00:19.160-07:00Feel the LossHooray for crappy cell phone pics!So, last weekend I headed down to Pacific Beach to hang out with my good friend, Marty Mashall (or something like that. Truth is, I don't like him very much) and had an emotional moment. You see, Matty lives in a house with other paintballers. As he gave me a tour, showing me all the cool stuff they have that would normally cause major bodily harm to amateurs,Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412339618575000495.post-25762214603975215752009-04-10T11:13:00.000-07:002009-04-10T11:33:14.465-07:00Surf City Open? Damn near Killed 'im!Photos courtesy of PaintballPhotography.comI suppose one of us, at some point, has to talk about the USPL event in Huntington Beach this past week. I was there, and on Saturday I was lucky enough to be joined by Brandon and Chris. Funny thing about the internets and blogs... it was the first time I had met them. I also got to meet Baca from VFTD and talk to him a little bit about blogging. I Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412339618575000495.post-18503138687411842662009-03-25T19:50:00.000-07:002009-03-25T19:56:35.966-07:00THE RIGHT KIND OF EYES"You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning...And that, I think, was the handle — that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply PREVAIL. There was no point in fighting — on our side or theirs. We had all the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412339618575000495.post-55134017261607135842009-03-11T10:31:00.000-07:002009-03-11T11:26:13.598-07:00History Pt. 2Yesterday, I started to delve into something that has irked me for a while, and that is the lack of History in our sport. Or at least, the lack of attention paid to it. The history is there... so why do we ignore it? Today, I conclude my thoughts on the subject.To make the "fans don't care" even worse is the fact that our sport is split in two. We have made strides in the past year or so in Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412339618575000495.post-12844540639401243692009-03-10T14:35:00.000-07:002009-03-10T15:20:19.526-07:00History Pt. 1Who can name everyone in this photo?Why don't we have any history in this sport? To most people, Lane Wright is just the guy who runs the PSP and gets in arguments on the internet. Most people have to be told that he used to run to the other teams 40 and kill everybody... in the 10 man days when the fields were huge. When Oliver left Dynasty for the Ironmen, only a few saw it as a RETURN to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412339618575000495.post-33190603601393102952009-03-02T09:48:00.000-08:002009-03-04T12:22:08.719-08:00ZEITGEIST If you haven't been following the case of Phil Dominguez lately, then you don't know that the legal battle he has going on is serious, and it has taken a huge financial toll on him. He has not only had to bail himself out of jail and pay all of the legal fees up to this point (which have been considerable), but he has had his house raided and removed of all and everything considered weaponry. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412339618575000495.post-65379446712802369262009-02-26T12:29:00.000-08:002009-02-26T12:33:36.035-08:00Words by Timothy Lewis MontressorFOLLOWING HIS BIG WIN AT PHOENX OPEN.(PERSONAL BLOG with permission)I was going to do a review of the event and write up as I had done in the past, but honestly, there isn’t much different to say that hasn’t been said about the basics. The weather was nice, the venue was amazing and the PSP did another good job, as usual. With that being said, it hasn’t occurred recently that I am afforded the FIGHT LIFE SPORTShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08834686405731051712noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412339618575000495.post-16763401943060868402009-02-23T22:31:00.000-08:002009-02-23T23:19:18.705-08:00PSP Phoenix Open, or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Wolf ShirtSleep! It is precious and good. I’m not an old hand at this… I haven’t been attending out-of-state paintball tournaments for years and I’m certainly not much of a party animal. So, recovering from this weekend’s PSP Phoenix Open is going to take me some time. Time, and massages with release. So, I was tasked with writing about the Phoenix Open and the “condition” of our sports current Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412339618575000495.post-2514368947563613552009-02-22T14:22:00.000-08:002009-02-22T14:24:36.978-08:00PHILLY AMERICANS WINS!!! (Equipment does count!)More coming soon!FIGHT LIFE SPORTShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08834686405731051712noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412339618575000495.post-14412898685562940692009-02-21T13:00:00.000-08:002009-02-22T14:22:05.582-08:00VIEW FROM A DEAD SATURDAY WEBCAST..YEA, THATS IT... ALL DAY LONGBut seriously, when it did go, 1 minute in... 20 min out, it was good for that moment.FIGHT LIFE SPORTShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08834686405731051712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412339618575000495.post-45082302459361189862009-02-19T09:38:00.000-08:002009-02-19T12:19:41.059-08:00Gator TamerI can remember the little fat kid with glasses that didn't quite fit in, asking to mix up some games with us at SC Village. I was building a ten man team for the NPPL at the time and we were having a sort of tryout. That team I built went on to win it's first NPPL event and then subsequently dismantle and eventually spawn into the Check It Factory team where myself, Rusty Glaze, Cowboy Roy Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412339618575000495.post-9383836207432470962009-02-13T15:33:00.000-08:002009-02-13T15:35:42.496-08:00RATS LEAVE JT.. I LASERED THIER GUNSENJOY.FIGHT LIFE SPORTShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08834686405731051712noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412339618575000495.post-47823422583585201792009-02-03T13:00:00.000-08:002009-02-05T12:44:41.586-08:00PACK OF WOLVES With all this division going on in the paintball industry, I thought I would take the time to propose a little lite hearted unity. Before I do though, and so you dont think Im actually crazy with what I'm about to propose, its a good idea to give you a little background on this. My friend Don Saavedra over at Splat Mag. sent me this link today (check out the reviews for this product)to help passUnknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412339618575000495.post-17359452876742417142009-01-18T09:22:00.000-08:002009-01-18T09:27:07.568-08:00CONGRATULATIONS MARCUS DAVIS UFC 93 IRELAND!Played paintball with my mens ministry crew at Jungle Island in Lake Elsinore. I had to say that the field was moderately busy.CONGRATULATIONS CONTRACT KILLER MARCUS DAVIS UFC 93 IRELAND "THE IRISH HAND GRENADE !Marcus Davis and Chris Lytle fulfilled their promises to fight it out on the feet for 15 minutes in their welterweight bout.With a singing Irish audience as background music, Lytle, 34, FIGHT LIFE SPORTShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08834686405731051712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412339618575000495.post-72436985584704164682009-01-14T15:06:00.001-08:002009-01-14T15:18:21.545-08:00TODDSGEARBAG.COMALL MY NINJAS! I have created a cool new way for everyone to get free stuff from me! You can get gear from my sponsors, jerseys, limited edition items, and other fun prizes. Use Toddsgearbag.com to search the web and results from Google will earn you Swag Bucks to shop in my store.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1