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TRAINING - A Route-Map to Success ….. By Jim Montgomery [Dusty]. I asked Jim [Dusty] to write an article on how best to train with the ultimate goal of producing a significant improvement in how you play. I wasn't disappointed - he seems to have nailed every aspect of what you must do...

Well Johnathan, to answer your first question, ‘no’ comes to mind. As for your second? Nothing to do with Gi unless someone jumped through a wormhole - Gi wasn’t even around when that pic was taken - Gi was but a twinkle in Richmond’s eye back then. However, ‘triangular paintballs’ is an...

I'll say this much - the present marketplace for paintball is unique especially when set against the backdrop of our industry as it was 15 years ago. People didn't have to work too hard to generate year on year profits back then - I ain't saying industry people didn't work but as it stands now...

Next Clue to hopefully win 50 quid :- 'Firstly seen sitting next to a confused rodent belonging to Becks' ….. I think that anybody who likes cryptic crosswords will have a pretty good chance of solving this. PS One slight technical proviso - if someone should actually solve this riddle - the...

James, I managed to do the interview with Billy Ceranski the other night and got his thoughts on where we are going, on both sides of the Atlantic - his thoughts were somewhat sobering. He outlined the present state of paintball and added his views on what was to come, and what could be...

Hi James - re the poll? I hadn’t set the poll up correctly and so it wasn’t registering votes but it did register thread visitors for some reason. I’ve not mastered the new Xenforo software yet and so I’ve gotta tinker with a few set-up options again. I’ll try and sort it out today sometime...

O, cheers, it’s the same for me mate. I think it might be in the new software set-up somewhere. I’ll go look and try to find it.

I think that guys who’ve reffed in the woods make for pretty good refs on an airball field but unfortunately, guys who’ve reffed on airball fields do not make good refs in the woods.

Geometry class over? Surely not? Missy, you're in the ball-park mate but …… you gotta lose one dimension and you can maybe think of things a little differently. Clue 2: Anyone who knows basic maths will understand manipulating equations. Thus; something simple like y=mx+c can be rewritten as...

Ledz, hair???? I'm afraid nature beat Ceranski to it :( As for a clue ? Hmnnn, I can't make any clues too easy because I've grown quite attached to my fifty quid but I'll say this much ….. By the way, if nobody gets it in a week or so then I will answer any questions re what he's drawing with...

Hi - I just need a bit of information re the pics I used above. Ledz just got in touch and said they're all blurry on his laptop - is anyone else seeing this or do they look like high res pics as they are supposed to ? Thank guys.

Dave, Twizz called me up today and we had a quick talk concerning what you guys are trying to achieve down there. From the figures you've supplied, it's true to say you are growing. At the start of any new endeavour, it doesn't really matter how steep the growth curve is - what's important is...

I'll try not to drop too many names in this post but there's some big news coming out the US with regard to who parks their ass in the big seat at Gi-Sports which just happens to be the largest paintball conglomerate in the world, by far. I've been really fortunate in my so-called career because...

The more positive the numbers, the more positive the outlook we've got. As a brief aside, I've just been contacted by a friend of mine from the US and he told me something that is probably already out there but I just have to check first before I go on-line with it. If it's true then I'm really...

John, I do hope you realise the reason why the question was pitched this way??

It's difficult to deny the success that Dave, James and Twizz have had these past years but that 'success' comes with its own limitations - those being, the lack of significant growth and influx of young players. The bottom line is, and always has to be real growth, and that's gauged by bums on...

H, I never said, nor did I think the resurgence was entirely a derivative of the old guard but without these older players, I doubt there would have been such a resurgence mate. Sooner or later, woodland tournaments will have to stand on their own two feet - this means the old guard will play a...

Lonnnnng sniff ...... I love the smell of adult debate/discussion in the morning …..

H, with all due respect mate, that's a well-worn mantra that certainly sounds reasonable but it never seems to possesss sufficient traction. Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to witness a rebirth of woodland tournaments but history/nature would have us believe that evolution seldom...

We've all borne witness to the recent resurgence in woodland events this past couple of years as exemplified by the events that Twizz, Ged Green et al have been promoting of late. However, the jury is still out regarding the real nature of this walk back down memory lane .... It's relatively...

That mag was a watershed for various reasons not least of which was because it seemed to reflect the news and views of the players at that time. The word 'cool' is bandied around so much these days but when P8nt first hit the shelves, the resounding opinion from the players and teams was that...

I'm sure this thread can wait till his return Jon …. if not, I'll make up a response …...

John, you know Nicky as well as myself and it's not like him to have let this slip through his fingers. I'm sure he'll come on here to respond to some of the points that have been made. He's normally quite thorough in this regard and so I'm surprised the field was so problematic. Nick ?

Since I was unable to attend Nicky Truter and Ged Green's event at Basset Pole this last weekend, I thought I'd better ask someone who did attend for their views on what went down …. if indeed anything went down apart from the rain. Ledz was there with his team, The infamous Sandbaggers, as well...

I've interviewed Ledz re the weekend's event and so as soon as I've got it checked I'll post it up later tonight. Hopefully, it'll be of some interest to those who attended and maybe those who didn't …….. Let's see what Mr Leadbetter has to say for himself …..

Great post Ed - it made the necessary points from what felt like an unbiased perspective and so I think we can trust your opinion and observations. Tom, can you reduce the pic size [15-20% should do it] in your post above please mate? Cheers Tom ... PS Sorted - I reduced the pic size Tom and...

J, the dead man's walk was first ever done by a member of NWC back in 1988 - When we [NWC] went Stateside for the first time in 1990 to Nashville, we introduced the DMW to the Yanks - apparently, we weren't playing in the spirit of the game according to some of the Yank players and judges but...

Morning J, and many thanks for your appraisal of the event at the weekend - I've now spoken to about 8 different people, not all of the same opinion but it's fair to say there are some common elements of criticism - Not all of them under the control of either Nicky Truter [co-promoter] or Ged...

I've just got off the phone from Ledzy [Planet Paintball] and I'm gonna be sending him over a few questions re Ged Green's woodland event at Basset's Pole site near Birmingham. He said I can ask him any questions I like and he'll answer all of them …. well, that's a brave claim indeed because...

True enough James, the relationship betweeen Ged and the boys from Joy Division goes back decades. Even so, it's still a significant investment from the Swedes to make the trip over. Those sort of relationships don't seem to be around anymore these days :(