I started playing paintball back with an old group called the Orc Death Squad in Memphis, TN. That group has been long gone and moved on to different things. My first paintball gun was an original Brass Eagle Stingray. Heck, I still got it and pull it out to play from time to time.

I usually play the communications guy. The man that distracts everybody else or calls off positions of the people on the other team. I give grief to the other guys so the more sneaky members of our team can get the jump on them.

I have known about paintball since the early 90s, but did not get a chance to play until 1998. I played in a private game with around forty people. We played all day long. The game was exciting and had me hooked immediately. Within a year, I had bought a mask and a paintball gun. I started out with a PGP as a backup weapon. Most of us were still using rentals and I was not quite read to put a lot of money into the game. By 2001, I was buying my first main gun - the AT85 by Advanced Tactical Systems. Since then, I haven bought a variety of paintball guns and my style of play has changed greatly.

My style of play today is dependent upon which paintball gun I carry on the field. When I carry the AT85 Tactical, a modified M4 replica, I tend to be a front-line fighter that moves quickly from bunker to bunker. When using any of the 10-shot pistols, namely the PT-Xtreme, I tend to be the guy who disappears at the beginning of the game only to reappear when I am asking you to surrender. I always challenge myself to get at least one surrender per day regardless of what weapons I take on the field.

I started playing back in college in '86 in the Bay Area. It started as a once an every month or so thing and rapidly became an every Saturday and occasionally Sunday event by '88. I was on a team called the Lost Boys then. We were the home team for a field called Venture Games that actually still exists today. We never really wanted to do tournaments but did take on teams like the Iron Men (the original, before Bob Long broke away and started his own team), Constant Pursuit, and Strike Force. I was a woods player then and I am now as well. In recent years, I've pretty much played scenario/Big Games primarily. For several of those years I enjoyed being the general of whatever team I was on and I had a pretty good track record when doing it. My style of play has changed some over the years but I've always been a big defensive player being either part of the anvil in a hammer and anvil movement or more likely playing our weak side. I'm the guy who keeps the other team at bay or tries to tie up a larger number of them so that our offensive guys can do their thing. I'm the guy that you have to dig out and will deny the opposing team needed parts of the field (or at least try). I'm also the idiot who actually "wanted" and got to be the "Invincible" B.A.T. character in the GI Joe Scenario Game (yeah, that was a brilliant idea on my part).

COMING SOON

I've always been excited about paintball ever since Mic first told me about it. I think it was about my freshman year of college when I played my first game at the Tripple W in Louisville, MS. Since then, I have added paintball as another expensive hobby to a growing list.

I don't have a particular style of play. I try to adapt to the style that seems to best fit the situation I'm in. I'd say that I have medicore skills all around so I try to fill any position that needs support.