So am I!! Nothing like a day of good old woodsball!!
I was strictly woodsball at first, but now I'm quite fond of hyperball/airball fields. There's a lot less running involved between shooting. A lot more action involved.
But I still enjoy good, old fashioned woodsball every now and then. A couple of buddies have excelllent home fields on their back 40's, which are a mix of woods with hard bunkers thrown in.
Actually, at my advanced age of 37, I do better against the kids in the woods, where my treachery comes more into play, but I've been hooked on the tournament style play since I played in my first 3-man rookie tournament with two other thirty somethings, all three of us armed with Tippmans, and we placed 10th out of 27 teams.
I started with a plain Tippman 98 two years ago. I've added a 14" dye barrel, a drop forward with gas on/off, a 12 volt x-board revvie(electric feeder hopper), a two finger trigger with some custom tricking to the trigger-sear by me(Gunner's mate..USN). It's deadly accurate, and while not as fast as the electronic (IE $750 and up)guns, I've never felt outgunned and it never let's me down like electronic guns do when the batteries die.
One of the two tournament fields I go to is Fat city located in Senoia, Georgia(About 25 miles SW of Atlanta). They have a team that is ranked nationally playing the new X-ball format. There are also several nationally ranked teams that practice there.
http://www.fatcityonline.com/ Fat city's team placed 7th in PSP Novice 10 man last year, and another Fat city team, Rock it kids, won the Rookie division, their first year on the circuit.
2003 results here:
http://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/psp/2003/ranking/index.shtml The guys there are great. They will get out there and play with the newbies, not to dominate, but to teach.
Man, y'all had to get me started. It's really too hot to play down here in Georgia right now, and it's been that way about two months now. I'm jonesing for some cooler weather so I can play.