I am a Old School paintball Pro pump world champion capt of NY Master Blasters 1986-1996 one of the top Pro pump teams ever to exsist I Owned and operated Action Sports Outfitters one of the nations top paintball stores and custom shops from 1988-1996 If you need to know anything about Old School paintball just ask LONG LIVE OLD SCHOOL PAINTBALL

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lets ask a question and find out Murf

Run on sentence much?

What do you think was the biggest game changer?

What has been your favorite piece of gear thats been time tested?

Who run Bartertown?

What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

I have a question:

What did you guys do with the original set of Commandos that Bud built for you?
Do you know any former teammates who have one left?
Would they be willing to part with it?

I traded a Sterling to one of you guys many, many years ago for an original Commando, which I later foolishly traded for a Mag.
My heart still longs for this piece.

This is the player formerly known as Fred Narley from the New England Grim Reapers.

If you know where I can locate one of these Commandos, I'd be much obliged.

I bought my first constant air setup from Gramps&Grizzly

it was shipped via european swallow express

What is best in life?

I love how there is no response at all... ;) strange

Usually it is some agglet who doesn't use periods.

If its who I think it is then its legitimate.

Hey Hollywood - if thats you who yelled at ya for waking me up at the last castle you covered - Action Bob

Thanks guys and girls for your comments .some of your questions are very good and I will try and do my best to get you the answers you need .the rest of you guys that want to have fun making comments about grammer or punctuation need to know that its OK I never claimed to be a writer just an Old School guy trying to make a difference and pass on some info that may help. I am not a joke or some fool trying to post for attention just wanna make myself available for serious players ,where I have been ,who I know ,and what I know can do nothing but help some of you and I am willing to do that if I can.----- Thanks Chemical X--- you probably do know who I am any Real Paintball player who has been playing for more than 10 years would have figured it out.-----Bored 383--- you are a true old schooler Lou and Mike Grubb where very good friends of mine and gave me 2 constant air setups for Bud Guns back in 1987 and I still have them today.------------The Shootist ---I remember the NE Reapers very well and I will do what I can for you I am meeting with the Blasters this weekend at SNY Big game and we are starting to play again.was the Blaster you got the gun from John Verelli?

If the other guys vouch for you, cool, I trust Shootists word. You're probably one of the ones I used to see in the old Paintcheck magazines. Good to see some old war horses are still around.

Thanks intercepter, Old Paintcheck yes as well as Action Pursuit Games,Paintball Sports and every other Publication from the day I am for real . Thank you for your post P.S. you were beginning to piss me off LOL....................... enough periods?

Murf the Elder ----If you were in fact an Elder you would know me!!!!!

Haha...no, sorry. I got changed to this username when another Murf registered last year, just to avoid confusion. It's not an old thing...just a "been here longer than the other guy" thing.

OK Murf I get it. just hoping to find some Old School friends here and maybe make a few new ones

OK guys and girls ,Who wants to play a Game ? Lets see what you know 1) What professional Team won the first NSG Paintball tournament?2) What Gun Mod. did Jim Anderson of the Wild Geese of NH invent that changed the game of Paintball in 1986? 3) What area did the Lords of Discipline come from and what Pro team did they become? 4) How Many of the Teams that formed the NPPL can you name?

Chicago area and Aftershock?

Jay

and i ... well have been a recball superstar for my paintball career...
but i played my first tourney this year
it's great fun...
even with a pump...
i've been playing for 13years :) and am just now meeting the local oldschool tourney guys in my area...

What was your favorite paintball gun setup evear thru your whole career?
Playing on a national level ... did it get harder to do as technology progressed? or did it just require a different skill set?

Joe you are 1/2 right but close enough you know your Old School paintball

i know absolutely none of that stuff you posted...

never followed tourney ball either...

Turbo Chicken, congrats on your first tourney experience I hope it was a good one .What area and what old school guys? Im a true Old School player and never liked the whole airball thing but I did play NPPL and PSP tournies and never really liked it. to answer your question as the game progressed ? I saw so many changes in my career that this question requires a long answer I started playing 15 man woodsball in the 80's where games were 1 hour long and fields were so large you shot 100 balls if you were lucky enough to even see your opponent .then the fields got smaller the games got shorter and things like stick feeders ,quick changes for co2 and barrel extensions made from pvc were the crap . then the constant air and hoppers made from plastic oil cans hit the circuit ,nelson based guns began to appear and every team was doing some custom crap to get the edge so equipment made the difference not the player so started the industrial revolution in paintball and the rest was history.In my tourney experience in the old school days I found that In woodsball it was a team effort you had to field 10-15 top players for every event , every player needed skills that have been long forgotten in the pro circuit and good communication between players won tournaments. then came airball shoot lots of paint let it fly and pray you hit someone on the break,learn to wipe ,play through hits ,wear uniforms to hide hits,the cheating got insane there was honor in Old school if you cheated (or got caught)you better not show your face again!Technology didnt change anything skill is skill but the new game has done nothing but take the game from the players and let the industry run the show and win at all costs became the battle cry.My favorite combo is still the Old School Termite custom pump with a bottomline constant air set up a "howdy" bolt and hammer and a old school viewloader 1000 I used it in over 100 5,10,15 man tournies all over the world in the 80,s and early 90,s. enjoy your tourney life and good luck see you in YOUR flagstation -----Kevin

Turbo, the game you play the sport you love came from somewhere and started somehow .all young players should know their roots and the players and teams that made this thing possible 1 paintball at a time .if you want to know Ill tell you the story I lived it !----Kevin

^^^^^^^^^^^^ I like this guy.


I wouldn't want to be stuck with him and Tom222 together though. I would be lost and never get a word in...

JB.

Sorry JB, but I have a lot to say I will try and be brief my Love of Paintball( and the players) is overwhelming sometimes

Lol no worries. It's good reading up on what you've done.

Check out the older pic thread here.Old school magazine and picture thread.

JB.

and beyond knowing oldschool equipment, and watching some oldschool video's online... is hard to grasp unless you were there or you know someone and can relate.

So for players like me im at the mercy of learning the "Who done whats?" from people like yourself...

that being said ... im only familiar with the more famous people of oldschool such as dave youngblood, fred schultz etc.... it's the old school teams and the players within that it starts to just get silly ... sure i know and have heard the names... but the history behind the teams and even further into the players... that's just too much data for me to crunch ...

I wonder if we could get some kind of oldshcool repository of info started... if we document these peices before the original people completely dissapear... there may be a chance for future players to get the info long after were gone.

oh and the players ... Texas Dallas area ... names... i know lots of first names... most noteable so far seems to be BigDaddyCool ... man now i have to remember the teams ... B.C.I.T. ... man now i has to go ask some questions... see what you did... i just met these guys in the past couple months... and i can't remember all the crap they told me lol...

Turbo its nice to know you know the names of my very close friends Fred andYoungblood (who by the way was a Master Blaster)Know any Texas Storm guys? if you do say hello for me

I'll try...

1) Gang Green?
2) stick-feed
3) NY/NJ?
4) All Americans, Ironmen, Wild Geese, Ohio Black Reign, Bad Company, Jax Warriors, Master Blasters

We met once, Hollywood. Durty Dan introduced some of us CanCon guys to you at one of the first Skyball events. you were wearing tails with camo pants.

Hollywood-I'm out of Nashville TN, did you ever get to go any of the Lively events, what were your thoughts on them.

3EV was formed at a field that was owned by one of the Sabrewolves, does that name ring a bell? Mr. Adcock owned the field known as Nashville Paintball Sports when we played at it

The answers:

Hi guys- Shootist- you are old school you know the answers ! nice try but I wanna let this run for a while lol---- Jeffy cancon if you were with Durty Dan at skyball we have met- no not me in tails that was Chris "Shark Attack "Cole from Maryland -on the old school test you did well with the NPPL question but not even close on the rest .nice to hear from you if you see Dan say Hello for me--Underdog-- I was in Nashville for every Lively event played both 5 and 10 man and represented my store in the tradeshows . did not have a good tourny experience I felt the judging was inadequate to say the least. but it was a tourny for major money at the time ,The Blasters had to be there to defend our title against the west coast teams and it was a great place to hook up with all the big boys . I cant say I remember the Sabrewolves

I don't know how to measure this "love" for the sport, but I'm definitely passionate about it. However, the only thing I want to remember about the distant past are the large mistakes that could likely be made again. If that means I'm not a "Real Paintball Player ™" then so be it... :rolleyes: I still have a room full of paintball gear, a hard drive packed with designs, thousands of hours on the field and this insatiable urge to do a run through with my stock class gun every time I play speedball. Oh, and I've been talking about the sport with the world for all these years...where have you been, buddy? :P

Do you know this guy?
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk192/c...in/DSC01368.jpg

Where are you from Holywood? What field do you frequent most?

Siress- I admire your passion for the game .but more than that I am impressed with the fact that you reference the past mistakes, what you do not realize is history is repeating itself already ! The tourny promoters and the industry are controlling the sport of paintball each one with their own agenda -world domination this is the same movie different actors as 1990-1991 and why the NPPL was formed by the teams(another sell out failure run by the industry) I know I was there! as to where I have been I retired in 98 in disgust at what had happened to the sport (not the game)plus a bout with cancer caused the loss of most of my vision for 4 1/2 years, 2 ops later my vision is improving and I am playing again.You have been talking about paintball how long? I have socks I wore in pro tournaments older than you "Buddy" lol

crazy origin - The person in the photo looks very familiar to me but it has been a long time please refresh my memory . My home field was and always will be survival NY Plattekill NY(not cousins)