Why dont we have this over here!!???

[Buddha 3]

Oh, and anybody else notice that one of the guys in the pics looks an awful lot like Robbo playing?

 

[custard cavalier]

this is true, however, doesnt seem to bugger up joy division who pritty much only train with reballs :>

but they train three times a week???
averge brit,once a month.

 

[Robbo]

Maybe I did not put my point to well or maybe I was a bit general, I was not really referring to the big name woodland sites but to an operation such as the one which was referred to at the start of this thread. The rent and rates on commercial property are pretty much licensed piracy.
The beauty of woodland or Greenfield is that in comparison they are a very small layout in compared to an indoor operation. The rent and rates still have to be paid for both but an indoor arena is by far more a huge investment and gamble. I think almost every indoor centre has folded due to the crippling drain of money to the coughers of the government and the incredible high per square foot rent. I think I have gone round the houses to say that we as regular tournament or rec ball players want the fantastic facilities but will never be prepared to pay for them.
The so called “punter” may well pay £50 or so for a couple of hundred paintballs and half a day’s entertainment and we can cry robbery, but the bottom line is it’s a commercial business and we are not prepared to pay one penny more but the once or twice a year man will.

Agreed 100%

 

[johnmassive]

The big issue is that many paintballers seem to be as smart at the way they spend their money as those that sell the big issue...
When I see people that have an outfit that costs more than their gun, or players that have to have a new gun every six months, the latest outfit every year, I just shake my head. And when they then claim that training is too expensive, I just want to kick them in the teeth.

I had a ticket to Robbo's clinic for sale for only 20quid for two whole days of paintball education and no bugger bought it. Says it all really.

 

[Robbo]

I had a ticket to Robbo's clinic for sale for only 20quid for two whole days of paintball education and no bugger bought it. Says it all really.

Some went to play a tourney instead... the irony is discouraging to say the least ...

 

[Buddha 3]

C'mon Pete, you KNOW that people learn more from getting blasted 5 seconds after game on, 8 times in a row, than they could ever learn from you. I mean, what have you actually done in paintball...

Pete, the only training that some people need is a swift kick up the butt.

 

[Revolt]

but they train three times a week???
averge brit,once a month.

true. but if you had a reball centre within an hours drive that cost you pritty much nothing to play at, you would aswell, damnit you should anyway :/ i know i would

 

[Robbo]

C'mon Pete, you KNOW that people learn more from getting blasted 5 seconds after game on, 8 times in a row, than they could ever learn from you. I mean, what have you actually done in paintball...

Yeh you are right Jay, they do learn more by just playing, I have been wrong all this time and the present state of UK paintball reminds us all just how good we have become on the back of this new understanding

 

[mikey601]

You available for team bookings pete, private training sessions?

 

[Buddha 3]

Yeh you are right Jay, they do learn more by just playing, I have been wrong all this time and the present state of UK paintball reminds us all just how good we have become on the back of this new understanding

I wonder if there really are people that walk off the field after getting gogged on the break, thinking to themselves "wow, I really learned a lot from that". I get the scary feeling they exist.

Back on subject, how do you guys feel now that a country that was founded by shipping your unwanted elements to the other side if the world, seems to be showing you the way... Seems like they do pay attention to the words of Pete and others like him. Even if this place caters mostly to the rental crowd, they do get introduced to Sup'Air straight away, making tournament paintball a lot less alien to the first timers.