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Jii on
16 July 2010, 10:59 am
Wow, a week has already flown since we had the privilege of having Mikko, Pete and Devon with us for a great day of pro player tips, tricks and drills – sorry about the delay. If you missed the event, you really missed out on a lot of good stuff and there is no excuse for you. Except maybe for Hilu, who called us early in the morning quite upset complaining that “for NINE MONTHS she has been swelling up slowly and steadily, going past the due date just to give birth TODAY! TODAY OF ALL DAYS!” There’s little you can add to that..
Continue reading ‘Summing up the Cyclone DYE Pro Training Day’ »
Filed under Jii, Pictures, Team, Thoughts, Training, Uncategorized.
Tagged Devon Stutz, GoldHammer, Helsinki Cyclone, Mikko Huttunen, Pete Utschig, Pictures, Pro day, The Tiger
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Jii on
7 May 2010, 10:17 am
It’s again time to start packing the good old Explorer and prepare for a tournament weekend, as we have done so many times before. Most of us have seen countless tournaments on various levels of competition in Finland, Scandinavia and elsewhere in Europe. A handful of us have even made the trip across the great water to play the official PSP Race-to format. Still, when the opportunity to participate in the Paintball Swedish Masters in Uppsala, we took it in a heartbeat. The Open division offers a team list that is something like playing a round of golf with Tiger Woods..
Continue reading ‘Playing with the Big Boys’ »
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Jii on
27 April 2010, 10:40 am
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.
Continue reading ‘The Sweet Life – Dye Travel Blog’ »
Filed under Jii, News, Other, Thoughts, Uncategorized, Video.
Tagged Billy Wing, DYE Precision, Mexico, Mikko Huttunen, Rocky Cagnoni, Video
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Jii on
22 December 2009, 1:44 am
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.
Continue reading ‘JT Sports going belly up?’ »
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Jii on
17 December 2009, 9:17 am
Remember G.I Milsim, the joint venture of Richmond Italia and the Gardner brothers? Yep, me too. The funny thing here is that G.I Milsim doesn’t seem to remember it. If you go to http://www.gimilsim.com/company/bios you can only find the biography – or bio – of Richmond Italia. No plural necessary, or did they forget to fix that when they REMOVED the Gardner brothers from the homepage? Funny place, the internet.
Continue reading ‘Strange Findings’ »
Posted by
Jii on
15 December 2009, 2:36 pm
On Monday’s VFTD post Baca Loco pointed his readers to a very, very interesting interview of Richmond Italia and Tom Cole (GI Milsim and Kingman, respectively) by Blast Radius Woodsball Podcast. The 1hr 15minute podcast is an extremely educational bit on a lot of the controversy surrounding the .50 cal and the rest of the most debated issues of recent months. One of the major statements that can be extracted from the interview is Richmond Italia’s clarification of the state of Smart Parts.
Continue reading ‘Smart Parts situation clarified by Richmond Italia’ »
Filed under Jii, News, Other, Thoughts.
Tagged Blast radius woodsball, GI Milsim, Interview, Kingman, podcast, Richmond Italia, Smart Parts, Tom Cole, View from the deadbox
Posted by
Jii on
12 December 2009, 4:04 am
Based on the article and discussion on 68caliber.com, the ASTM standards for maximum ball weights for different calibers have been revised. Mike Lukas, Chairman of the ASTM sub-committee for paintball posted a very good response explaining the decision-making process in forming the ASTM standards – the full text can be found here. I really suggest you read the whole article, as it seems that the weights that were initially posted were early inputs to the standardization process. However, the wording of the outline has now been revised to be more accurate in proportions of the weight to the ball volume.
Continue reading ‘ASTM revises standard proposition for ball weights!’ »
Posted by
Jii on
3 December 2009, 10:29 am
The released Sup’Airball Millennium Series field update (thanks to Finnish splaweb.net for the heads up) has some points that I find interesting. The most important question I have relates to this bit:
After numerous debates with players, paintball parks operators and industry leaders, the will to push forward towards a common field with the leading Series promoters around the globe and the support of the UPBF, both Millennium Series and PSP fields will see minor changes for 2010.
Continue reading ‘Skewed Logic in Millennium Field Update’ »
Posted by
Jii on
16 November 2009, 2:05 am
It seems news travels fast! Frederic Rodrigues contacted us and kindly offered a few clarifications to our recent post on .50 cal and the Millennium. We discussed information from VFTD that was originally from Frederic, and which I misread / misunderstood. Frederic pointed out that he received his information from Laurent Hamet’s public announcement on Spirit of Paint and that they are not close – they have only barely met a few times and had a few business phone calls. Regarding ProFusion, which we suspected to be Laurent Hamet’s company – we pointed the uncertainty with a (?) – , Frederic also clarified that he does not know the owner of ProFusion, but that officially ProFusion is not Laurent Hamet’s property.
We thank Frederic for the additional information!
Posted by
Jii on
15 November 2009, 3:06 pm
In View from the Deadbox: 50 Cal Update for Mr. Curious, Baca Loco posts up information that he has received from Frederick Rodrigues – someone close to Laurent Hamet. According to Frederick’s information, the .50 cal “revolution” has been strogly pushed to the French market by Hamet’s (?) distribution company ProFusion and the prices would be 50% cheaper than the .68 current prices. That is starting to seem like a tempting offer already. Hamet had also claimed that the Millennium Series is very likely allowing both .50 cal and .68 caliber balls on the fields for the 2010 season.
Continue reading ‘.50 Cal on Millennium Fields in 2010?’ »
