where the PMA (positive mental attitude) at lads ? it doesn't have to be a major station showing such shows but smaller channels even local channels will be more then happy to show a show such as one aimed towards paintballers as long as it draws a few hundred views. The guys here in Ireland managed to pull it off so i'd say you guys across in the UK with a much large audience shouldn't have as much trouble as we've had here.
Robbie, there's a lot to be said about PMA and it's certainly something don't ignore but you gotta remember here, this particular endeavour (Paintball on TV) has been an ongoing saga.
And a saga that has involved the top people in our sport spending millions on production and promotion, and even involving extremely famous people (Stateside) in the form of Dick Clarke, I suppose an equivalent over might be someone like Bruce Forsythe ...
Anyways, I was involved with a lot of the guys who were working with Dick Clarke and knew pretty much what was going on with that endeavour ..... I had PMA coming outa my ass like the Niagra falls.
In the end, it just didn't work, and it didn't work for a very good reason .. that reason is ..paintball don't work o TV, it's as simple or as complicated as that mate.
Billy and Adam Gardner (Smart Parts) and a lot of the other guys shoved in millions to that endeavour and it went tits up because that basic flaw in our game.
It has no focus........this point when expecting people to switch on and watch is irrefutable and doomed the enterprise to failure and will do so for every future endeavour unless something basic changes.
Xball went some way to challenging the TV impasse but even that failed and so we are left holding .... nothing really.
And so, when guys like tiffyman come on spouting this that and whatever, and who has nothing but hopes and aspirations and a young mind, it kinda feels precocious and inappropriate.
I was an advocate for paintball on TV for years, writing about it many times but eventually ...I had to face up to the fact, it just doesn't work on TV and is only interesting to the paintball fraternity and if you feel that demographic can substantiate a production, then cool, but don't expect it on any serious channel.
Sad but true Robbie.
