Dye has made a short but sweet video blog entry on their youtube channel. Dye had three of their guys – Mikko Huttunen, Rocky Cagnoni and Billy Wing - offering a three-hour mini clinic and the now famous “NT Experience” in Guadalajara, Mexico for the participants of the Mexican Paintball League.
Archive of posts filed under the Thoughts category.
Millennium Bitburg Layout
First thoughts of the field.
Bricks on “snake” make their way over the pond. 50% of the field is the same as in Malaga. Maybe it’s to make the change small for those Malaga games yet to be played. Or the French guys who have been training on this field for the past two weeks just didn’t bother to move the bunkers too much… Continue reading ‘Millennium Bitburg Layout’ »
Saturday
So what’s next, earthquake? Tsunami? Jesus appearing on middle of CPL field? It seems Malaga ain’t getting no lenience from the higher powers. Day started with a thunder storm over Malaga. And it’s set to continue over the weekend. The forecasts seem to be changing by the minute, but I expect nothing good out of this by now.
Games are maybe starting again and our boys are set to play against Empire Venice at some point. Hopefully Stark will get his report on yesterdays happenings sent to me soon, so that I can pass all the juicy details to you. But one thing is for sure, our boys are in high spirits and having time of their lives.
As we are short on players, we got help from Sugar daddys on our second game. They came and helped us on the pits. Thanks boys, we owe you one! This is a case in point why Millennium is the best place to play ball in Europe. Even though teams play to win, they still help each other out! Ofcourse Scandinavians are always close, but this has happend with other nationalities also. This is what our sport needs, the sense that you want to win, but not with other guys handicapped. We will try to put our effort to enforce this on our own part.
Update. Sam just texted that “Maybe” they are not playing today. This is getting rediculous
Update2. So no games today. 7AM tomorrow the organization will tell us, if any games will be played. huoh.
Thoughts on Physical Training, Mind Games Continued
In my first post on this site, I pondered about the strains that tournaments put on our body and mind. The solution for body was covered, and is nothing new, but what about the mind? Again most of these ideas are presented in other channels, but I see them important enough for repetition.
The mental side of paintball is often thought to be a totally different animal and it’s training somewhat unquantifiable. I think this only partly right. Physical training, when done well is about getting you to push through those mental limits that we all have. This constant “overdoing it” prepares the mind for the torrential rains of London, the heat of Malaga and the top players of the game. It really is the old platitude: No pain no gain. Continue reading ‘Thoughts on Physical Training, Mind Games Continued’ »
Now over 200 fans @ Facebook!
The number of our facebook fans has been growing and growing slowly and a few moments ago we broke the boundary of 200 fans! The current reading is 208 fans but I hope that the number keeps on growing. Anyway, thank you all for joining and for those who haven’t joined yet, we kindly welcome you to become our fan! Our facebook site can be found with Helsinki Cyclone in Facebook.
Thoughts on Physical Training
I’m the first to admit that I hate winter. Especially this one where all warmth has left us Finns to the embrace of record snow falls and at worst -25 degrees Celsius temperatures and gusty winds. This has been a time, when I’ve doubted my sense to go jogging into the bitter cold. Thank the maker for gyms and central heating.
I believe that physical fitness is something Finnish Paintballers aren’t concentrating enough on. Of course we, the competition paintballers, have left behind the time, when our back players were all over 30 BMI. Still, Cyclones target for this year: getting to play all the games in the final day of all the Millennium tournaments, is something I think few of us Finns are equipped to deal with. It really takes endurance both from the body and mind to keep pushing through those snakes point after point and game after game.
‘Brothers in Paint’ – An Academic Paintball Videography
It’s about time to go live with this now, so here goes. As a researcher for the Aalto University School of Economics I was given the opportunity to explore conducting research on video a few years ago. At the time, it didn’t take long for my colleague and compatriot Joonas Rokka to identify an interesting context of consumer culture – yes, that would be paintball (at the time an utterly bizarre idea for me, fortunately I played along). Suddenly, I found myself being both the researcher and the researched.
Continue reading ‘‘Brothers in Paint’ – An Academic Paintball Videography’ »
What’s up?
What’s up guys? I decided to write something what’s going on with me and cali paintballing.
Four weeks to the first PSP event. We have been practicing a lot, weekend after weekend.. If I’m talking true so I’m getting little bit tired of this but I want to get so much better so I have to keep practicing hard. Actually we are going to Arizona to play AZPPL this weekend, I think we are going to win that tournament.. hopefully. But still we have to practice more if we want to win PSP. And everyone in the team says that we are not even close to that level what we have to be if we want to win the PSP. So we have to grind hard and yeah.
Last weekend we played few points against Ironmen. They are so good and they killed us. By the way it’s pretty cool to get bunkered by Oliver Lang. But yeah, when you practice against Ironmen you will learn so much, you can’t do any mistakes or you are done.
Tippmann to buy Procaps?
Last few years have been a tough rollercoaster ride for Procaps with the ride going only downhill. Lately we have been able to even read on public forums the difficulties Procaps has had with cash flow due to selling with credit to distributors that haven’t been able to meet the payments and letting go their best known sales people Opie Thomas and Paul Satler. Procaps being up for sale isn’t the big news but the possible buyers is the interesting part. Continue reading ‘Tippmann to buy Procaps?’ »
JT Sports going belly up?
Again, we feed off the great stuff View from the Deadbox diggs up – you guys should all subscribe to that.
There has been a few notions that Wal-Mart would not be distributing JT products anymore, and as JT has received over half of its sales through Wal-Mart, the company suffers a hard blow. Hard enough that it might even be forced to close down. For us older guys, this is really sad bit of gossip as JT and Scott were the first really big equipment manufacturers in the sport and were big contributors in the initial growth of paintball.