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Part one from this paintball video series titled Start Again. This video follows St. Louis Avalanche at the 2007 NPPL Tampa Open and their quest to return to the finals. In this first chapter, we watch Avalanche in their quarter final performance. Against Farside, Tiljak destroys the snake side giving them the win. Next up Dynasty, I could tell you what happened or you can just watch the video… Watch it 
A paintball comic strip needs to progress through it’s life the same way a paintball player does. In these strips my characters are being developed at the same pace as the new player is learning the game. So this is the first game of our hero Jamma.
Everyone’s first game of paintball is different, as unique as the people who play it. This is Jamma’s first game.
Impact in the semi’s and finals at the NPPL Huntington Beach Surf City open. Every episode I watch of the ETV series reminds me of why I love Planet Eclipse. Thanks to a great run through on the third and final match versus Dynasty Impact beats Dynasty 2-1 in about 6:30. Impact is the first team in history to move from the Semi-Pro to pro bracket and make the finals on their first event. Yes this is ancient history, occurring in 2007, but I like the videos and want to share them with everyone.
The ETV series fills a niche that has been missing for several years in the paintball community. I think it is important to show the game at it’s highest level, mostly because it is a world that is only known to a small group of players, but is one that any paintball player can achieve, if they really set their minds to it. In no other sport, except maybe skate, is the top level so accessible to everyone. You just have to want it more than the next guy, and work to get there.
As you can tell from the change to a new main character, I was already beginning to evolve the strip in new directions.
I’ve always wanted to yell “Eat Gelatin Encapsulated Death, Whimpering Fiends!” while doing a run through in paintball, but the moment has thus far eluded me.
Part 2 of 3 in this paintball video series created by Planet Eclipse. In this installment we follow Impact as they move through the quarter finals at the 2007 NPPL Huntington Beach tournament. it is amazing to watch this team of Canadian’s crush nearly everyone in their first professional event.
In 2006 Edmonton Impact placed 2nd in the Semi-Pro division of the NPPL series, giving them a chance to move to the pro division. I have rarely ever seen a paintball team make the move to the Pro level, without winning their lower division outright, so dominate the pro bracket in their first event. In fact the only other team I can think of that did this was The Ironkids aka Dynasty.
Yesterday I posted the very first paintball comic strip I ever created, and as promised here is the next one. I will also be posting them at The Funniez along with my other comic strips like Multicampers which is about a bunch of airsoft players and a soon to be published comic strip “Roadie”, the story about a guy, his dog and a neurotic squirrel. Hell I might even post all of the old Cold Coffee comics and the Distemperment strips.
I think there is only one more paintball related strip with this character, then I switched over to a younger guy, just getting into the game, named Jamma. However this character comes back from time to time as the overbearing pro wanna be, big mouth putz. I have not been able to track down all of the Squirrel strips only the first dozen or so.
I finally tracked down the first in the Planet Eclipse Paintball Video series from ETV! This video was originally released in 2007 but still rocks. I will be posting the whole series of episodes here for your viewing pleasure.
This episode of Eclipse TV documents the Pro Debut of Canadian super team, Edmonton Impact at the NPPL Surf City Open, aka Huntington Beach. Impact makes it through the prelims into sunday… How do they fair in the semis? Do they make it into the finals? This is all ancient history at this point, but in part two of this video these questions and more are answered.
You might be able to tell that I am a huge fan of Planet Eclipse. They have always stuck to the highest quality standards in everything they put their name on, and these videos are no different.
Do nitrogen tanks hurt more than co2 tanks for paintball?
Does the Nitrogen shoot the balls out harder/faster than regular Co2? – CanMan
CanMan you ask a question that many new to paintball ask after they have played a few games against players with high end equipment. The simple answer is No, not directly. However there is a much deeper answer that has lead to this common mis-belief.
CO2 is a liquid in the tank and must expand to a gas to fire the ball from your marker. The transition from liquid to gas creates a rapid rise in pressure. Because this expansion takes heat and time to occur, the faster you shoot, the more liquid that will make its way into your marker. This liquid co2 in your marker will do two things 1) It will do serious damage to the seals and o-rings on your paintball gun 2)It will cause shoot down, where the balls go less and less distance with each subsequent shot. The colder the day the more pronounced this shoot down issue.
So while chronoeing your gun, because you are shooting just a few balls, and slowly, you are not drawing much liquid CO2 into the gun, and therefore your velocity stays pretty high. You, consequently are adjusting at the peak velocity. Also do to the unpredictability of the expansion from liquid to gas, it can spike and you will always adjust to below the field limit (300fps or whatever).
With HPA (high pressure air aka nitrogen aka compressed air) the propellant is stored as a gas in the tank. hen firing the gas has to to leave the tank (which is holding the air at pressures like 1500-5000psi) it must first go through a regulator to drop the pressure down to the operating pressure of your marker (400-800psi). Due to this regulation of pressure the propellant is super consistent. You will rarely ever get spikes using HPA, and rapid rates of fire have little effect on the velocity.
With a gun on CO2 it is not unusual to have to set the velocity at 280 fps with it fluctuating from 260–300fps shot to shot. With compressed air you can set it to exactly 300fps and have shot to shot consistency of 298-300fps.
The net effect of all of this is that a compressed air powered marker can seem to hurt more because it’s velocity is stable at the maximum allowed while a co2 powered marker can have radical drops in velocity due to all the things I mentioned earlier.
I am in love with this series of paintball videos created by Planet Eclipse. The more I see of them the greater my level of excitement to see the next video in the series.
This video, is just the trailer for the Paintball Video series Artifact, but it does a great job of portraying the emotion and camaraderie that is a huge part of paintball.
Call me a sentimentalist, but there are few places outside of a war zone where people can bond to the level that is often found on top level paintball teams. There was a great video produced in the 2000 called Push presented by Paintball Sports Magazine. The video documented the day and life of professional paintball teams from that day. It followed them in practices and tournaments. From airports to hotels. It was the first video to capture that world on film. There are some great moments captured, and I recommend it highly to anyone who wants to know the real history of professional paintball.
Artifact follows Push and Sunday Driver in the vein of documenting the lifestyle, camaraderie and people in professional paintball, so I love it. That and Matty Marshall does a great job with the dialogue, his prose captures the emotions of the moment.
As I track the various videos down I will be posting them here, to share with everyone.
A Bonanza of Paintball Comic Strips!
Wow it is amazing what you can find when digging back through ancient zip drives. This paintball comic strip has appeared under several different names, because my self syndicated strip that had run in several daily newspapers was named Cold Coffee, so for a brief time I called the paintball strip the same. Then it was Cold Coffee – Psychedelic Squirrels and finally just Psychedelic Squirrels.
These strips represent the very first few I ever created specifically for paintball, as you can tell from the general lack of masks, just goggles (Which was common in the early days of paintball) they were created almost 20 years ago.
I am not the best person at keeping around my old work, in fact I usually hate seeing it. Every day I get better and it is often painful to look back at stuff I created years ago. However I did really enjoy creating this strip, SO it is with great joy, that I stumbled across these comic strips and now bring them back to the world wide web!
This first strip, re-released in 2010 was originally created in 1992, it very well might be the first paintball strip ever released via the web, but I am not sure on that point.
I will be re-publishing each of the other strips I found over the next couple of days.