Newb story of yourself

[Tippmann Woods Ball]

Mines got to be when i just first started out playing, We were playing speedball in pipes, i was the last guy left and i was caught in the middle of the field. I fired a couple shots at the guy behind me and saw the last one hit his hopper, so i called a paint check. He was called out. The guy in front of me hadent been shoting for awile, so i ran up and saw him there lookin aroud the opposite corrner, so i got stright behind him and fired like 6 shots. He was usein a timmy, and the other guy had an autococker. I love my 98 custom. lol. Steven you should ask "bob" if the swelling on his head has gone down yet. I was lmao at your conversation involveing poor bobs misforutune.

[spydersplatter]

the first time i ever played i had every thing ready to go had a spyder tl plus tricked out with laser scope rear stock the works basically but i made the mistake of going up against a US marine who had just gotten back from iraq he was using to brass eagle samuris i think and i was hiding behind this big stump looking around over the stump to find him i thought i saw him and lit up a tree real nice then he popped about from behind me and nailed me in a straight line from head to toe

[spokane]

this is actually the first couple of times playing. firtst time me and my lil bro had just gotten our sheridan xts's, so went back behind our house in a little wooded area. i remember trying to use trees that were only like 2-4 in. thick as cover and thinking he wouldn't be able to hit me. . another time was when beaners got his 98custom 2 days after our sheridans. we didn't know what it was like when you ran out of co2 since we had only played the first game and hadnt run out of air.. so the first time beanerrs ran out of co2 we thought he had made his gun into a full auto. another time that sticks out was when we started a field in beanerrs back yard. We had only two bunkers and would emptie half a hopper hoping that some one would stick there heads up. Good times :icon_bigg

[Grendel]

This is the first time I played paintball. Some Shipmates of mine had started playing paintball during R & R and when we all got back to the command they talked me into trying it out. Well the five of us went to Combat USA (later became Vanguard Paintball then Triggertyme) to play. The other four already had equipment and James Warner had a spare set of goggles and a Pirannaha Long barrel I borrowed. The very first game I played was the old 2 flag capture the flag. The opposing team decided to play a defensive game so the camped at or near their flag. We had them pinned down pretty quick but no one on our team would push to get most of their team out from behind a bunker. I quickly got sick of this and was suffering from intense "Rambo Syndrome" at this point and felt invincible. Well I made a 20-30 yd dash to the bunker, jumped over a 5 ft wall while pumping and shooting, lost my hopper (40 rd) when I landed on my back behind my opponents. At this point I'd only hit one player right next to where I jumped and was not shooting and balls but the other 4 guys surrendered. I jumped up ran out of the bunker grabbed the fall and ran it all the way back to our flag station, winning the game. My friends and teammates said I was half way back with the flag before they even realized what was happening. When we got off the field I told Jim Warner that the gun I was borrowing was mine and I'd pay him on our way home. I then preceeded to play both Sat and Sun for every weekend for 3 months straight until I had to go out to sea again. I played so often and so hard from day one that David Phifer, Field Captain and Dennis Day the owner of the field invited me to be on staff just after playing for 4-5 weekends. I was on staff, and active almost every weekend from then on, until Dennis died of a heart attack and the field changed hands and I was transfered to Norfolk, VA. I returned to the area after 14 months and picked up where I left off.

I LOVE THIS SPORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Grendel]

Another Story - My first weekend of play. POW Game on this field there is a small village above a "POW" camp surrounded by a creak with only a small bridge crossing it. The object of the game is to rescue "escort" 2 POWs in tiger cages out of the POW camp back to your flag station in the village. The team ratio is 3:1 attacker vs defenders. Once again "Rambo Syndrome" was severly effecting my cognitive abilities. Well I made a mad dash down the hill from the village with paint flying around me and proceeded to attempt to jump across the creak into the POW camp. Well when you are suffering from the Rambo Syndrome hieghts seam half their actual size and distances that appear short are actually much further. Well the distance across this creak was about 20 ft from bank to bank and they had just had a rain swelling the creak to between 3-4 ft. Well when I made the jump I was sure I could make it but ended up making it about 1/2 way landed in the water going completely submerged and as was told to me stood up while pumping and shooting trying to scramble to the far bank. I did not survive to make into the POW camp but did succeed in causing several of my opponents to get eliminated because they were laughing so hard at my antics. The staff members from that day on used this story as an example of the Rambo Syndrome during their safety briefings for years to come (while pointing me out if I was there).

[roboto]

my most noobie moment ever has to be i bought a phantom overpriced and was grounded so i couldnt go out and play and i sold it the first weekend i went out to play with it and also my friends used it more times then i did it was mucho funny

[theubernoob]

i was totally awsome as a newb. my first time playing i bunkered the whole other team and then got shot by my own teammate

[P8nTballer]

my best time as a was when I was playing at my friends house about a year before I actually likeed P8nTball. He had a brass eagle avenger and I of cuarse was using a sheridan pislt. I dont remember what it was called and it wasn't the pgp. well anywase, we went on a hill and just started shooting and were scared to get hit. He would shoot me and I would be freekin out and I would shoot him and he was scared. There was this other time before he had the avenger we both used a sheridan pistol thing. and me and him got point blank and shot and shot and not a single ball broke on us. And then we decided, we need better guns. a lot better guns. So it was a year later I was in paintball.

[sickshot21]

i was playnig at a feild in sunol Ca. and there was a group of younger players on my team. the side we started on was accualy the worse side to have. any way the game started and i decided not to go off the brake very hard. i was being showed by a pair of newbies and buddy who covers me was on the tape line in stead of covering me. i ended up moving into a center bunker and in the front becaues the rest of the team had been elimated. so i'm trying to shoot about ten guys my self. i get one before the other team pins me. i'm still to get off a few snap shots. so i ask the newbies who are in the bunker next to me for help, they yell back, "we can't they're shooting at us "
i ended up getting shot and in a bad mood because the newbies decided to hang me out to dry