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I haven’t had too much to do with paintball for a year or so - I’m hoping I can rectify that in the coming weeks. And as if by magical coincidence, I just got a text from Sergey. if you know who he is, then great, if not, don’t worry. He always forgets about the time difference which is why...

I haven't spoke to Pete Bofil for a loooong time. I got on really well with Pete even when i had that 'misunderstanding between Nexus and his team He's one of the original 'names' coming out of paintball back in the day. Along with Danny Bonura and Chino, I really liked those guys.

I've always found it amazing just how far being a celebrity can take you in the US ..... it's a door opener for sure - whether you earned it or not. It sems to be an affliction that has gained a foot-hold over here. The working premise seems to be that when the US sneezes, we catch a cold...

Far be it from me to poke my nose into anybody's business but ........ I have questions :- Do you live and presumably play in the US and A ?

For any refs who has to adjudicate pro team confrontations … they don’t get paid enough.

The Red Legion Wave As some of you may have guessed, I’ve had a sabbatical of sorts this past year or so. It’s not what I would have chosen but without going into too much detail, the welfare of my family comes first. The upshot of this hiatus has resulted in an unplanned/unwanted absence from...

Spike - John Amodea and myself go back a long way - he's heavily involved in the media and has a vast amount of knowledge of who's who and what's what. I think he's been writing about paintball for roughly the same time as myself, about 30 years or so. He's a well respected guy and I'm really...

Thanks - however, I would like to add this account is my personal history but there’s a whole world of paintball experiences and histories out there. Unfortunately, there are an acute shortage of people qualified to write about it. There is one exception however - John Amodea is collating a...

Hopefully, my situation will resolve itself [No, I'm not banged up in Belmarsh …… Wormwood Scrubs actually] … as soon as everything returns back to some semblance of normality, I'll be back - as to whether that'll be a good thing, or bad? Who the Fuhk knows but my fingers will be crossed...

Tony - I've got an on-going problem that's side-tracking me at the moment and I wanna say 'thanks for the post' - I'll call up Billy and see what he has to say - as you know he's a busy man at the moment but I'm sure he'll make time to respond to at least some of the issues you brought up. Hold...

Fuhk Brexit - Fuhk Brexit - Fuhk Brexit …….. I'd bet my house on the fact that if we had a referendum on whether to scrap Brexit, and stay in the EU, I think there's a good chance we'd vote to stay in. I realise it's off topic but I wonder how much money has already been wasted getting...

Apologies for extended delay in getting back to you Spike but I've had a few problems to contend with and I had no other choice but to deal with them. However, I think that most of the problems have been sorted, and so fingers crossed, they don't make any sort of a come-back. Who was it who once...

Billy’s not so Silly …. Myself, Steve Baldwin and Billy Ceranski …. It’s hardly any secret that one of my close friends in the US is Billy Ceranski - we played together on Aftershock for three years starting in 96, and have been friends ever since. Why do I bother even mentioning this...

To start off my Hall of Infamy, I'm going to select a couple of fellow Brits. John and Jackie Sosta who are the original husband and wife double-act that started in paintball all the way back in the early 90s - They're both well-known on both sides of the Atlantic and will justifiably qualify...

Yeah, I know Dave, it runs in the family.

I'm going to run a series of articles focussed upon the characters in our sport, some of whom were there from the beginning and a lot of them who are still around now. I'll give you the low-down on who they are, what they are/were like, what they've achieved and what they got up to. I won't be...

Spike - as you infer, Tom's one of the nice guys in our sport/industry and I've got a lot of time for him - he does a lot of hard work behind the scenes that he doesn't really get recognition for but that's his way and I respect that. His interview is up now and some of the stuff he sent me re...

For those of you who don't know Tommy Cole, here’s a brief run-down:- Ever since I started playing in the US in around 1990, Tommy was known as one of the good guys - Personally, I always thought he should have been on the Waltons but he ended up as top-dog on a team called Bad Company out of...

PS I've finished writing up the interview I did with Tommy Cole, and I have to say, he came out with some real surprising stuff. I just sent it back to him to read over and check, and as soon as he's given it the ok, I'll post it up.

Cheers O, I think the reason I've highlighted Giovani's efforts is simply because he's the only example I've ever been quoted, certainly by Billy. I'm damned sure there's gonna be a whole slew of candidates on the East coast who've overcome just as much hardship, if not more than Giovani's but...

I've just got off the phone from Tommy Cole and I'll try and write it up tonight so I can post it up on here tomorrow. Some of the things he told me were literally, unbelievable, leastwise for a cynical, pessimist like me. If the numbers achieved for this Amsterdam are not a one-off aberration...

I apologise if someone else has covered this news item but I've just heard that Tommy Cole's Amsterdam event has over 200 teams booked in …. I spoke to Tommy last night very briefly but I will be calling him back tonight for a fuller account of the all the details surrounding this news. If it's...

J, I think Airsoft players are discouraged by bad weather just as much as paintballers in which case any difference tends to cancel out. Billy didn't differentiate between the two when he told me about Giovani and so I assumed the 'bad weather' effect applied to both in equal measure unless of...

As I once said somewhere, the best thing about paintball is the friends you make and one such friend of mine is Billy Ceranski who I’ve known for well over 20 years after playing alongside him on Aftershock, the 6-time world champions back in the day. Billy’s an honest bloke not prone to...

The 50 quid is safe - Answer = The Star of David ....... Billy was drawing the symbol on my forehead in the vain hope he'd convert me to Judaism but alas I experienced no epiphany and remain a firm agnostic.

Here is today's clue in a somewhat desperate attempt to give my money away:- Hmmnn, let me think - an anagram? - Nah, someone will easily get that, probably Johnathan, and I ain't having that ! OK, this will probably be the one that provokes the right answer but here goes anyway [bye-bye my...

Spike, as much as I'd like to award the prize tonight [I just lied] I'm afraid the all seeing eye isn't the right answer. As for whether it's close or not? Not really no, in an oblique way I suppose it might be but you need to think about the pictorial geometry of 2 x 180. And I will add one...

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...