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The Coolest Kid Ever!

Posted by  on 22 October 2009, 9:03 am

While we are waiting for the Turkish Millennium to get into gear, I figured I need to share the coolest kid I’ve seen in a while – a 9-yr old boy who’s been playing with his dad since he was 6. My god think what the little geezer will be by the time of his sweet 16!

The kid and his dad also have a blog that has a lot to read – all of it very positive. The kid is a huge fan of Nicky Cuba and Thomas Taylor, and he’s met both of them on numerous occasions. Especially Nicky has showed great attitude and appreciation towards his little fan as can be read from this post -a really super-nice story that I recommend you to read. My hat’s off for the little guy, his dad and Nicky!

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.50 Cal “Promo” video after World Cup

Posted by  on 20 October 2009, 7:53 pm

Matteasy7 posted a video on youtube showing Chris Lasoya and Mike Phillips From TechPB testing the new .50 Nano after the PSP World Cup.

There has been discussion on VFTDB about the FPS the gun was running on during the test, and people have claimed that the gun was shooting above 300FPS, in the 315-335 range. Still, all of the test shots were less than the full pitch. Not by outrageous amounts, but still, the extremeties were not reached.

Also, if you look at the size of the marks on Mike, they seem a lot smaller than the .68 as, by physics they should. From a tournament players’ perspective, i’d be much happier receiving those than being the one trying to eliminate me with those specks.. :)

I need further convincing.

Edit,

The guys over at MCB did a nice test of the available paint, that can be seen on Youtube. Be sure to check that out as well.

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Know your roots, my young padawan.

Posted by  on 13 October 2009, 12:33 pm

In PSP World Cup 2009, two of the original founders of Cyclone, Eero and Ilkka Kaakkola got together with players and friends from the good old glory days to show that they still bleed blue and black after all the years. They got Toni Stegars and Aleksi Peltonen to join up for the tournament and as icing on the cake they had Lalle – a great friend of all Finnish paintballers – from sweden to join and bring a friend as well.

A few changes had to be made to the roster due to D4 restrictions, but that didn’t stop the guys from enjoying themselves, and played up to the 3rd round – not at all bad!

It’s nice to know that the team founders still go strong, we owe them a lot. We will train hard to succeed and make sure they are proud of our accomplishments!

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Beyond Sweat

Posted by  on 16 April 2009, 9:35 pm

A few weeks ago Cyclone had a nice chill-out weekend over at my place watching the PSP Phoenix webcast and munching through a pile of burritos. Having a big part of the guys over and watching the ‘cast was a good way to spend a weekend out of harms’ way but it also had a more profound meaning in revealing some aspects of training that I had not considered in such depths. Hearing Matt Marshall mention game momentum and mental tenacity time and time again really resonated with me, and a thought stuck to the back of my head. How can we as individuals and as a team achieve the proper mentality to be able to turn games around?

Continue reading ‘Beyond Sweat’ »

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Winter Training

Posted by  on 1 February 2009, 4:05 pm

Physical fitness. Those still seem to be two words that lift the eyebrows of Joe Paintballer. That’s right Joe, if you want to hack it in the game today you need to lose a few kilos.

After season 2008, we went back to the drawing board. The season had been successful to say the least and most of our goals set pre-season were met. Still, we know that to take ourselves to the next level we need to be better. And by better we mean better on all the levels. We figured that all the snapshooting drills, all the hours spent fine-tuning technical aspects, all the great kit we get to use is not enough unless we commit to the sport fully as an extreme sport. We need to be quicker, stronger, leaner and more agile. The tone for the winter training has been set. We will take ourselves to the next level.

Citius, altius, fortius.

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