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Das Statesman Journal bringt einen Online Bericht über Dan Bonebrake und das Wachstum der Paintball Industrie. Der Artikel:Taking aim at successEstimates suggest 200,000 paintball guns are sold every monthMATT MONAGHANStatesman JournalSeptember 21, 2004Waleed Bal Ghonaim of Corvallis takes cover last week during a paintball game with friends at the Warpaint Paintball Fields on Portland Road.Estimates suggest 200,000 paintball guns are sold every monthDan Bonebrake got a business degree from Linfield College, then did the very thing his family hoped he wouldn�t: He started a paintball company.Good thing he ignored their objections.Bonebrake, along with his partner, Vince Gray, has created one of the extreme sport�s leading manufacturing companies and tournament circuits with headquarters in Salem.Since going into business in 1994, Bonebrake and Gray have watched sales for the company�s three divisions reach close to $5 million annually.The reason, according to the Sporting Good Manufacturers Association, is the increasing worldwide participation in paintball.Up to 16 million people spent $390 million on paintball products in 2003.Paintball, to the uninitiated, is an amped-up version of capture the flag. Competitive matches between two teams reward teamwork, strategy, and shooting skills.Players fire half-inch balls of water-based paint sealed in a gelatin shell at one another at speeds upwards of 180 miles per hour.All competitors are required to wear protective clothing that covers the body, including the head.Bonebrake said the excitement and attraction of paintball comes from answering an age-old question he and other children have had when playing.�I remember growing up and playing guns and yelling �Bang! Bang! Bang!�, but eventually we went, �Man, this isn�t fun. How do you know if you hit him or not?� Well, paintball brought that to us and it was very addictive.�So addictive that Bonebrake and Gray now have three paintball playing facilities, known as Warpaint Paintball Fields, in the Salem area.The other two branches of the pair�s empire are Bonebrake Airsmithing, a paintball gun modifying business, and the Xtreme Paintball Sports League.The XPSL is a five-city amateur West Coast competition tour of more than 250 teams consisting of seven-man crews from Canada to San Diego.In August, the XPSL had its first local tour stop at its new five-field outdoor facility next to Volcanoes Stadium in Keizer.Major sponsorships from clothing and equipment manufacturers are even financially supporting professional teams, turning a once weekend hobby into big business.�It�s getting just unbelievable,� Bonebrake said. �We give away retail prize packages worth $100,000 now.�Two weeks ago at an event in Las Vegas, Bonebrake gave away 14 Sony home entertainment systems to members of winning teams.Fox Sports has even begun televising professional events in places such as Orlando and Los Angeles.Lee Ingram�s son, Rocky Knuth, is a member of the sixth-ranked team in the world, the Albany-based Naughty Dogs.Ingram and his wife, Sherry, own the Albany Outdoor Paintball facility and have seen what once was a side business turn into more than a full-time devotion.�I retired from HP a few months back and now I�m concentrating on growing this business,� said Ingram. �In the last year, I�ve seen more 10- to 13-year-old players than previous nine years combined.�Word of mouth and a proliferation of Web sites devoted to paintball have spread the sport�s gospel like wildfire.But perhaps surprisingly, nothing might have helped the industry more than when Wal-Mart started carrying paintball guns, Bonebrake said.�At first everyone said, �Oh no, Wal-Mart is getting into paintball, they�re going to shut us all down,�� said Bonebrake.�But then, like 10 times the amount of people started to get into paintball, and since Wal-Mart doesn�t carry the higher-end equipment, those seasoned and experienced players that wanted a better product started looking elsewhere to companies like us.�Today, current sales estimates by SGMA�s Recreational Market Report show about 200,000 paintball guns being sold per month.Gray, Bonebrake�s partner, expects the figure to increase with time.He added that unlike other alternative sports, like skateboarding, where adults typically grow out of the sport, paintball is becoming an activity that families are passing down to their children.�The proof of that is when I go to tournaments and I see dads in their 30s and 40s playing, and their kids are on younger teams,� Gray said. �It�s a cyclical thing.�[email protected] or (503) 399-6744

Der Paintballstar hat in seiner Wallpapersektion neue Bilder vom US-Proteam Dynasty veröffentlicht. Die Wallpaper kann man auch für 3$ als Poster bei Actionvillage beziehen.

[img]../newsimages/sonstiges2003/2004-09-23-mpgmasters2.JPG[/img]Am 7.11.04 finden in der Undercover Paintballhalle in Buggingen die ersten MPG Indoor Masters statt. Die ultimative Vorbereitung für die Maxs European Indoor Masters !!! Wann: 7.11.04Wo: Undercover PaintballhalleStartgebühr: 199€Format: 5 Mann/Subáir/ 2 Division´s Round Robin plus FinlasTeams: 14 max.Paint: BYOHP: 25€ (wird Vorort bezahlt) 200-300 bar !TC Meeting: 8.00 Uhr Preise: Pokale,Sachpreise und Gutscheine für die Top 4 Startgebühr muß überwiesen werden !!! Sven Dreisigacker Sparkasse Mittelhaardt Deutsche Weinstraße KTO 1724319 BLZ 546 512 40 Verwendungszweck: Team/MPG Mast.

Die Website von „Clothing for Killas“ ist online und es gibt eine Pressemitteilungder Betreiber, die wir nicht vorenthalten möchten:

The wait is over. KillaClothing.com is now online and taking preorders on our first order of CFK Army T-Shirts. KillaClothing.com is not your regular everyday clothing company. Our concepts are designed for those paintballers, skateboarders, rockers, gangsters, yo's, hoes and everyday john does, who don't really care about what people have to say about them. You got to have the attitude to walk in public with Killa Clothing and not care about what people think. So where did the whole idea of Killa Clothing come from? There are Killas everywhere, not Killers we don't support Killers, Criminals, or Murderers in anyway. A Killa in our opinion is a person who takes their sport, their skill to the highest level; they bring the attitude on and off the field, or skateboard, microphone, whatever it is they do. They make sure that they live it. We eat, sleep, and play our talent; we bring the skill and attitude that some people don't bring. Killas are those players, skaters, or just people in general who bring the attitude to express their opinion, even if it means controversy they do what they do and that's that. Killa Clothing which was founded in the summer of 2004 is a small clothing company created by two everyday killas. It all started as an idea and now we are working on finishing a line of clothing in time for Commanders Cup. Killa Clothing is funded and operated full-time by CJ Ponzo, and Matt Weisenborn, our goal is to launch our product line by the end of the year and watch it blow up. We would like to see Pro Athletes wearing our products in the future, and we really want to see our products blow up on the skateboarding and paintball scenes. Our product lines won't all feature the „Killa,“ mark. Some products will be more public friendly but still bring the attitude of us killas. Look out soon for a few local skateboarders rocking our gear as well as paintballers from all levels of competition. For more information on our products visit us onlineat KillaClothing.com

Die Ausgabe 187 der Paintball Games International inklusive der „What Paintball Gear 2004“ CD-Ausgabe wird jetzt verschickt. Dies ist der Inhalt der „Free StuffIssue“:

Markierer Tests:
Dark & Storm Intimidator, Armotech WG65 & Zeus

Masterclass:
Rocky Knuth – Key bunkers & how to play 'em
Glenn Takemoto – Bunkering and living to tell the tale
Robbo – Freestyling vs. Methodology
Dr Max – Speed Drills
David Jarvis – Going Solo

Events:
PSP Nemacolin
Millennium Madrid & Norway

Stuff:
Infamous vs XSV replayed: The inside Story
AfterShock 04 by Mike Carey
Hanging with Trauma in London
The Cut – The insider view of who's going to make the NPPL Pro Cut for '05

Die Jungs von den Paintball Dream Fields haben ein paar Schnappschüsse des neue WDP Stuffs machen können:[img]../newsimages/produktnews2003/2004-09-21-angel_armschoner_05.jpg[/img][img]../newsimages/produktnews2003/2004-09-21-angel_hose_05.jpg[/img][img]../newsimages/produktnews2003/2004-09-21-angel_glove_05.jpg[/img]