WOW! nostalgia!
This takes me back..i can actually remember flicking through my magazines like PGI and painball adventures..and looking at some of these photos..wierd.
I was only 15-16 back when alot of these photos were taken.
My uncle used to play for a Skirmish Northhants (now central) team called the Alamo Heroes.Used to marshal up at the site and earned a bit of pocket money and i'd get a run out every now and then (you had to be 18 to play then).And for a treat i'd get taken to tournaments like the Mayhem Masters at Holmbush.I was at the one with Keith Idema strutting about the place (remember "puppy paint" and ICS vests?) Ahhh happy days.
Those were the days of the Rogue troopers,the Short timers,Banzai Bandits,Nam wreckin crew (remember them as being huge,quite intimidating fellas!),Nomads,the Rampant Roosters (Skirmish Exeter) and the Predators and loads more i just cant remember.
I remember Bart and Rafe and if i remember right Dean Farmer (?) from the site at Hook Wood (is that still going?) in South herts..the later days of Guns R Us (post B.S.S.) and the shop at Potters Bar (woodyat played with them if i remember rightly) in their "mossy oak" days.
In one of the shots of the guy from the Predators (i think,might be Steve Collins from the Alamo Heroes though long time ago) in the Rhodesian Camoflage with the suppressed (ho ho) Proline Sterling STP pump i swear i even recognise the Rhodys as being at a tourney at a site in the Birmingham area i can remember going to.Mental.
Thanks for jogging my memory,great to see those images from the past, they were the good old days of woodland tourneys,10 or 20 minute games with 10 man teams.Glad to see theres a revival of the woodland tournament format with Genesis and the No battle pack series.Its about time there was a woodland paintball league again man.Bags of fun.
I'l have to speak to my unkle and see if i can blag some of his old photos from back in the day and post em up here.Ahh memories
