Planning for a new sup air site

[bradderzz213]

Me and the other half have been thinking for a while now about opening up a new site in the East Midlands in an town called Kettering and really just wanted to know people's thoughts about this. Obviously to keep it up and running it will need you guys to come and play. But from ideas we are currently getting together are to have a single field at first just to get things up and going then expand to have 3 sup air fields. There will also be catering on site for hot food and drinks for the players, there will be the normal green fee of £15 for the day if you bring your own paint or there will be paint to buy on site which I'm thinking of having the gi sport ranging from 1 star to 3 star there will also be hard standing staging area for keeping equipment safe and covered if its a rainy day but instead of diving straight in I would like for you guys to say if you would play and if there is anything you think I should add or change this will maybe take some time to come into action but knowing it will have support will be great and give me more push to get it up and running ASAP

 

[Karl M]

sounds like a good idea mate, we are in the process of setting a field up at Apocalypse Royston for training purposes.... But if you are to set up a complex for sup air then not only can it be used as a training field for local teams without their own facilities but also could be the stage of a local tournament/ league possibly? I am pretty sure all of our Apoc teams would be interested in playing if this could be arranged

Could also help to encourage more scratch teams to start around the bedford/northampton area and become a proving ground for local players to get into established teams away from the well known teams at Bricket Wood. I personally think it would be a good Idea mate and would deffinately play there

 

[bradderzz213]

Cheers karl and I completely forgot about doing tournaments and I'd defiantly aim to do that I want to open the field as well for punter days to get more people into the sport maybe as Saturday is punters and Sunday for the normal players

 

[Karl M]

deffinately a good idea to let the punters on the Field as sometimes we have groups of punters come and play on the field when we have it set up and they love it. Would bring in a lot more people and income if it is succesful however with that you also have to way up the capital you will have to invest in rental gear in order for punters to play and whether you will make this money back (currently doing a business degree so this is my sort of thing haha )

Splitting the weekend up for punters and walkon players/teams would be a good idea as it would widen your target market to begin with and allow the site to get a good rep amongst players and hopefully allow you to expand to two fields one for teams and one for punters maybe??

I hope it goes well for you mate any rough ideas as to when you are planning to get this underway??

 

[did243]

I've looked into starting my own supair training/punter facility - indoors though(no rained off days)
I would say if the interest is there then it's well worth it - brings more people into tourney style events.
As for the punter days - it seems viable however only one map, alot of balls, 10 man tops per side, this may put people off. And what guns would you invest in? tippmann's wont cut the tourney style to get punters in.
Just gotta think of how much it is to set up though, land, field, compressor fill rig, staffing, etc etc.
just my 2p's worth

 

[bradderzz213]

With rental gear that's the reason for this post so then I know it won't be accurate but I can work out if it will be do able and I'd like to start sometime in the next couple if years but obviously all comes to getting the equipment and funding and as did243 said getting all the stuff and staff is why I'm posting before I go ahead with it

 

[Dup]

Its a good idea, but you have to think about the location aswel,

The nearest big city to Kettering is? Coventry/Brum?
What will make your place better than anything those big cities have to offer? Being in Kettering you will have to do alot of advertising (not just on the forum) which will cost you and take alot of effort.

Also if you have punter days, what equipement will you use? Are you looking to get normal site markers? Which run best on Co2, so you're going to have to find a supplier for that, aswel as having the rest of the gear: goggles, overalls, pots, packs, hoppers, bottles etc..
If youre planning on using cheap start up torny markers like PMR 09 or something, then you'll still need to factor in the above, but youll need the air - are you looking to buy in refill cyclinders which will fill upto 3000 psi, or an air compressor? Oh and an abundance of batteries which may seem stupid at 1st, but if you have a few guns, the costs do mount up

If you're looking to have it as torny days or training, you'll need an air compressor else youll be stocking alot of the refill cyclinders, where will you keep an air compressor? Its all good having the land, but you will need a place to store one of them unless you have a big ass truck and dont mind carting it around.

I dont mean any of that harshly or assume you havent thought of any of the above, but its just a few factors to take into account. As you probably know nearly all site in the UK do purely milsim days, not sup air, because that gives more variety and area for normal customers. You will be catering for a very small market and i think its important to know that before endeavoring on this mission But good luck to you sir! hope this post helps and may have made you aware of something you havent yet thought of. Not very sure its a promising buisness venture if im completely honest, but as i said, good luck

 

[bradderzz213]

non of its going to be taken harshly i know i have forgotten an few things like what you have mentiond i might be jumping into a bottomless pit i do realise but i really want to look into it and push myself to get one up and running so eveything thats being said is definatly being taken into consideration and will be mapped out for if i can get this done so thank you for the information guys

 

[StubbsPKS]

I love the idea of more air ball fields in the UK. I am a yank originally from NJ, and before I came here about 6 years ago there were at least 4 or 5 airball fields within a 45 minutes drive of my house and I lived practically in the middle of nowhere. I got here and there isn't a single airball field within about 150 miles of me in Edinburgh (although there was Terminator in Glasgow, but I didn't know about it and never got to play there).

I know there are a lot more field geared toward tournament players down near you, but that's actually good because if you have no competition then there is probably a reason for that.

Good luck with this mate, I want to open a field one day as well, so I'll be following this with interest