I have come to the conclusion that life is to short mate to get into **** on here about it any more.
There are good people in the sport there are bad people in the sport there are also ones that are just in it for the money or to **** people over to get money or fame or what ever.
I just like sitting in my corner now watching it all go by and have a little chuckle to my self.
just editting all the mates out of it
i say mate far to much mate xx
There are good people in the sport there are bad people in the sport there are also ones that are just in it for the money or to **** people over to get money or fame or what ever.
I just like sitting in my corner now watching it all go by and have a little chuckle to my self.
just editting all the mates out of it
i say mate far to much mate xx
That's a fair point mate........ no point us laughing alone so come sit in the corner with me I have food and beer!
Let it out Markie I for one will value your word.
On my side of the coin I honestly think that we should have more training sites with punter sites within the same area. A like Nottingham Skirmish or Leicester Skirmish once had, this would offer the chance for customers during the day to look at the tournament players or "pro's" or whatever they will call us, and see what the other side of the grass is like.
Then allow companies (places like Planet and WDP etc ...) etc to host experience days at sites up and down the country with gear available to use and also a safety / rules talk at the beginning of the day in order for them to fully understand the way in which it works. This should in effect start a ball rolling?
Likewise bring back international paintball ... now i don't know why this was stopped but hear me out other sports have it (i know we're not a sport as such) and it would make for easier tv broadcasting (yes I know this is a hard concept to grasp). But with a simple format we can have something for the youth to aspire to and climb a ladder as such with football and such like.
Also bring back proper leagues! the PA did this well but I know its hard to keep people in Div 2 all year if X team is smashing up everyone but maybe with promotion and demotion only every half season it would change things.
Also academies would be super star you would have say the Manchester team have a Youth Squad that would play in one league that would eventually have players stepping up to the first team (ala rugby with colts etc ...).
Now this means COMMITMENT ... something we lack.
Now this is the fiddly point a format!?!
We can run a woodsball league and also a Supair, and don't think I'm crazy but this could work.
Also SHUT YOUR MOUTH A BIT MORE, this isn't trash talk to you all you all know that we cuss each other about ooo u rec ball rtard etc .... CUT IT OUT it looks crap from the outside.
Final and scary as hell point.
ONE LEAGUE FOR THE COUNTRY!
dependant on how many teams we have 10 in each for now
Premiership
Div 1
Div 2
Div 3
Conference
Locations up and down the country so that it works out every week we have at least one division playing games. So say 1st week of the month Premiership teams play. the following Div 1 etc ... and have Conference on either elsewhere or mixed in with the Div 1 / Premiership to view the excellence.
Don't say I'm crazy but I'm young and want to see this thing I love put right!
On my side of the coin I honestly think that we should have more training sites with punter sites within the same area. A like Nottingham Skirmish or Leicester Skirmish once had, this would offer the chance for customers during the day to look at the tournament players or "pro's" or whatever they will call us, and see what the other side of the grass is like.
Then allow companies (places like Planet and WDP etc ...) etc to host experience days at sites up and down the country with gear available to use and also a safety / rules talk at the beginning of the day in order for them to fully understand the way in which it works. This should in effect start a ball rolling?
Likewise bring back international paintball ... now i don't know why this was stopped but hear me out other sports have it (i know we're not a sport as such) and it would make for easier tv broadcasting (yes I know this is a hard concept to grasp). But with a simple format we can have something for the youth to aspire to and climb a ladder as such with football and such like.
Also bring back proper leagues! the PA did this well but I know its hard to keep people in Div 2 all year if X team is smashing up everyone but maybe with promotion and demotion only every half season it would change things.
Also academies would be super star you would have say the Manchester team have a Youth Squad that would play in one league that would eventually have players stepping up to the first team (ala rugby with colts etc ...).
Now this means COMMITMENT ... something we lack.
Now this is the fiddly point a format!?!
We can run a woodsball league and also a Supair, and don't think I'm crazy but this could work.
Also SHUT YOUR MOUTH A BIT MORE, this isn't trash talk to you all you all know that we cuss each other about ooo u rec ball rtard etc .... CUT IT OUT it looks crap from the outside.
Final and scary as hell point.
ONE LEAGUE FOR THE COUNTRY!
dependant on how many teams we have 10 in each for now
Premiership
Div 1
Div 2
Div 3
Conference
Locations up and down the country so that it works out every week we have at least one division playing games. So say 1st week of the month Premiership teams play. the following Div 1 etc ... and have Conference on either elsewhere or mixed in with the Div 1 / Premiership to view the excellence.
Don't say I'm crazy but I'm young and want to see this thing I love put right!
TendringLOEB this subject has been done to death , but why not
This is it were i see it simply
Teams need to decide what they want to play , if they want to play local events ,let them who are we to tell them what they should and should not play,if there aspiring young players that want to get better they have plenty of training venues within the UK , that offer much better value than playing these local events.
SO if people are quite happy to play scarsbrick 3 man ,let them , let them enjoy them selfs , let people have fun , whats wrong with that ???
Now to the serious player , if you are really dedicated , you have to give pretty much every weekend up to play the sport to get better ,loose your GF or your wife as they will never understand why this is driving you To put it simply its a life choice ,you either want to win or you don't . i can say my team has a lot fun still playing paintball , but when practice or MS comes round its time to go to work . I have 5 day a week job like everyone else ,but i also work on sat/sun playing paintball this is pretty much how i have treated it for a long time ,its a job , but a fun job ,but a job never the less you always need to keep people happy at work
The players that want it will come though the ranks to top teams , the chaff will always just bitch about "what if" and "if we" got that deal we could play every weekend .rather than get out there and just get on with it .
As for teams playing happily ever after , good look with that .
This is it were i see it simply
Teams need to decide what they want to play , if they want to play local events ,let them who are we to tell them what they should and should not play,if there aspiring young players that want to get better they have plenty of training venues within the UK , that offer much better value than playing these local events.
SO if people are quite happy to play scarsbrick 3 man ,let them , let them enjoy them selfs , let people have fun , whats wrong with that ???
Now to the serious player , if you are really dedicated , you have to give pretty much every weekend up to play the sport to get better ,loose your GF or your wife as they will never understand why this is driving you
To put it simply its a life choice ,you either want to win or you don't . i can say my team has a lot fun still playing paintball , but when practice or MS comes round its time to go to work . I have 5 day a week job like everyone else ,but i also work on sat/sun playing paintball this is pretty much how i have treated it for a long time ,its a job , but a fun job ,but a job never the less you always need to keep people happy at work The players that want it will come though the ranks to top teams , the chaff will always just bitch about "what if" and "if we" got that deal we could play every weekend .rather than get out there and just get on with it .
As for teams playing happily ever after , good look with that .
I think the above is not as simple as people want to believe, we actually did it a few years ago and as much as we all said we wanted to work together for the greater good, the very sad truth is unless we all did it, it would fail miserably, we didn't and it did.
I am not going to say anything myself about the masters xball light because I was not there but two captains from teams who played have told me the fields was a joke and can you explain how you can play a team twice but another team you don't play at all!
But is it quantity or quality of events that needs to be addressed, maybe both?
Well lets start with quantity, the PA last year ran a total of four events all year.
The masters ran how many! to save you looking it up I'll tell you they did ten five man events a two day event and some seven mans also some xball light after they had come to the PA to see how to do it.
This season the PA was going to do six but because we did not expect to have the new Millennium field in time I cut it to five days the masters are doing Nineteen plus another six down south
So if it is quantity who is doing to many......
The other aspect that needs looking at is quality, well that is for people who have played both to judge, some will prefer the easy going attitude at the masters and not really bother about things because they just want a day with their mates and that is cool.
Others want an event where rules are the same for everyone and there is enough room in the marquee for the teams attending and you get to play everyone in your division, and you go on a field where all the refs are getting paid so try there best.
Russ
From my view if we are talking about tourney ball there are three types of player:-
1) the local baller who likes to play his own areas events either one off or regular
2) the older baller who came into it a little too late for getting anywhere near the elite euro scene (i personally fit into this category)
3) the young, driven and ambitious baller who wants to play at the highest ranks and will do whatever it takes to get there (even with no job, money or support)
Now, support is the operative word, if good young players are scouted and moulded with support from the best teams (i'll class Chris' team as one of those here) then we have good chance of getting some excellent tallent notice over the other side of the pond. But it does seem to me that there are a lot of teams which want to play at the highest level immediately with no real experience and get extremely hacked off with events after spending shed loads of money on paint, markers and travel getting there, then disrupting the sport by bad mouthing everything (no dig at your team Chris, i just liked the word).
This year i've decided to come back and try support the league I know best - the PA. I might be too old, i might not have the drive and ambition to take it across to europe, but whatever skills (if any) I can pass on to young players I will.
One thing that annoyed me last year was the support of the IPPU, which was there to help teams in the european events, sadly that organisation died at the beginning of this year because of lack of support from the teams.
So what help is there if we can't even manage an organisation for our players in the highest ranks?
1) the local baller who likes to play his own areas events either one off or regular
2) the older baller who came into it a little too late for getting anywhere near the elite euro scene (i personally fit into this category)
3) the young, driven and ambitious baller who wants to play at the highest ranks and will do whatever it takes to get there (even with no job, money or support)
Now, support is the operative word, if good young players are scouted and moulded with support from the best teams (i'll class Chris' team as one of those here) then we have good chance of getting some excellent tallent notice over the other side of the pond. But it does seem to me that there are a lot of teams which want to play at the highest level immediately with no real experience and get extremely hacked off with events after spending shed loads of money on paint, markers and travel getting there, then disrupting the sport by bad mouthing everything (no dig at your team Chris, i just liked the word).
This year i've decided to come back and try support the league I know best - the PA. I might be too old, i might not have the drive and ambition to take it across to europe, but whatever skills (if any) I can pass on to young players I will.
One thing that annoyed me last year was the support of the IPPU, which was there to help teams in the european events, sadly that organisation died at the beginning of this year because of lack of support from the teams.
So what help is there if we can't even manage an organisation for our players in the highest ranks?