Injuries!

John- Without proper protection....
Ball on skin action!

     Now everyone knows a paintball hurts.  When I first started back in January I didn't wear a protective mask.  Then I took a round right next to my eye and realized that I need some goggles.  Now I have a mask and a vest, now my vest is was not bought for the purpose of protection but it does cover alot of my torso. 

This is what happens when you back through
a tree without looking

     I have had friends out there playing in a wife beater.  Unfortunately for John that resulted in the MOST GNARLY paintball wound I have ever seen......Oh yeah and I inflected it!!!!  John was a champ about it, posing for pictures and even  sending me an update photo later that week.
   Come to think of it we all have had some pretty awesome wounds and close calls.  I'm pretty sure Travis almost lost an eye by less than two or three inches, which he took like a champ too.

     So here are some of our wounds to date.

Julie- First Real Wound
Ball on Skin Action!

I will add to these a lot so make sure to follow!

Brent- Forehead shot!

Travis- Shot to the Ear

John- GNARLY....I DID THAT

This shot almost got me in the eye
(went out and got a mask next match)

A lot to cover

Me on the first day

OK so I have gone out quit a few times before I started this blog.  So, I thought I would give some back story.  I have always liked to the idea of paintballin just never went out to play so serious games or matches.  A very good and old friend of my Gabe came over on New Years 11, and brought his new Tippman Project Salvo paintball gun with him.  I loved that gun at first sight!!! ( I now own one)  So i asked if he had any extra guns we could go out and shoot each other with.  His reply was a very enthusiastic "YES".  We set a match date for a couple of weeks away with promises we would recruit some moving targets to come play with us.  I told my friend I would pay for the rounds if he brought the his guns.  When I went in to the paintball store I go to,  The Command Post on 27th Ave and Bell, I bought my first paintball gun, a paintball gun so old I actually cant find a like for it, weird.
By the time match day had come around I had recruited my friends Brent, Travis and Alan along with Gabe.  I had a blast, it was super cold that day but who gives a shit.  Since then there has been as many as 13 poeple out there with us.

First group photo, I'm behind the camera

In the Begining

I have always want to do a blog, but never know what to write about, since I have always had a preconceived notion that people who blog about their everyday lives need to get a life. So now that I have completely thrown myself into paintballing I figured I would blog about my little excursions. So stay tuned for all of my triumphs!!!!