old skool ballers in the UK

[Sid_Clan]

I'll join your club sid, I'm 35, no kids I started playing with splatmasters on punter days, got some more kit, played a few tourneys then found other pastimes (beer, women, cars, motorcycles, scuba diving) just starting to get back into it now...

I started before splatmasters mate, the old bolt action, no air tanks, charge the marker stick your 10 shot tube down the barrel, bang on your uvex goggles and off you go, if you shot 20 balls in a 30 minute game you were doing well or running out of air!!!!!!!

Sid
Kidz these days....damn it...I sound like the old guy down the street, no wait...thats' me!!!!!

 

[Sid_Clan]

yeh guys when Sid started it was all about playing 'capture the rock' whilst hiding behind a Stegasarus

Didn't realise your Mrs played paintball back then mate x x x

Sid

 

[arg1271]

I started on the 10 shot tubes and 12g caplets, I've still go my old phantom pump, L7 automag, an Ir3 and two old but very trick matrixes.

still can't hit a barn door from 10 feet, though I did score a few hits on some friends from work on a customer day at DF yesterday with my automag, it hasn't been fired in anger in many years and still perfomed flawlessy.

 

[jahlad]

i guess i probably count as old skool these days, i first played when i was 14....that was 1992 at the indoor site that some of the manchester lions used to run.
first game i played was with splatmasters...uvex goggles and those bloody horrible face plates that hurt more than getting shot!
ive played on and off since then, only got into playing tournys in the last 4 or 5 years and still love the game as much as the first day i played. Also i now work within paintball so i have a better excuse to tell the wife 'got to test some new stuff love, back for tea'

id love to play a pump tourny on sup air!

 

[Dskize]

Didn't realise your Mrs played paintball back then mate x x x

Sid

LOL... good one ..I have no comeback

 

[Sid_Clan]

LOL... good one ..I have no comeback

Didn't think you would.......see you Thursday.

Sid

 

[Ms Bossy]

Started 1989 and had to take a break between 2002/03, 4 targets.....i mean kids, just hit 40 and i don't mean the barricade and getting up early Sunday mornings is now a chore

 

[cookie_834]

i think this thread will be dead for a while....all the old schoolers should be in bed with a hot water bottle by now

 

[jester22]

first played in 87. (was 18) skirmish site in east grinstead had the .62 calibar marker can not remember what they were call. ran on air not co2 got about 20 shots out of one fill. had a couple of breaks in all that time (got married got divorced) started tourny 92/93 (pumps) still play tourny (iam the old fart at the back whizzing) had to cut down on tourny play due to new job but still keeping hand in when back in uk.

 

[Robeenio]

thankfully we have had some old timers coach us from day 1 and they are still around to clear the mess up should us youngens get shot!

jimmy frensham
jim burgerman
steve eddowes

top blokes who deserve a medal for putting up with us, and have all been around the paintball scene for 15 or more years

I myself have been playing since I was 16 back in 1997 got into tournament paintball 3-4 years ago and loving every second!

now helping new people to the sport become better by coaching along with jimmy and method man 'mike from brum'