Paintball Magazine January 2016 | Page 75

talk each and every fan of his and stop for every single selfie. He made his way to all the camps at night to spend time with every team he would be playing with or against that coming weekend. For those of you that may not know Wolf, he is a DYE sponsored woodsball player. Wolf got into paintball just like any other person. In 1995-96 he got invited to a corporate event at Paintball City in Toronto. He started with rentals, like any other person, and fell in love with the sport from there. He played a lot, and then decided it was time to get some of his own equipment. He went out to a pawnshop and bought a Piranha pump marker with a tank and everything included. “The marker leaked. A lot. So I had to play fast!” said Wolf. He then started to upgrade his equipment and went for a Spyder. He modified his gun by duct taping laser pointers to his marker, and things got real. It wasn’t until the late 90s that he got his first Tippmann, the A5. Wolf has always been approached for sponsorships; he has never sought them out. He got popular writing for magazines and his YouTube channel, and then began being approached by companies like Tippmann. His first official sponsorship was through Full Clip. It wasn’t until 3 years ago that he got a call from DYE. They had never sponsored a woodsball player before, so this was a new thing for everyone. DYE had a marker called the Matrix and they thought that Wolf would be a good person to promote it. When Wolf got his sponsorship from DYE, some people got mad and thought that he was selling out. Wolf however had no intentions of selling out, he decided whatever product he reviewed or was given he would speak the truth about. He could not be bought. No one else had a contract like his; it was more like a mutual partnership. Wolf prides himself on honesty and integrity. During the fist year of his sponsorship however, he hurt his knee and was out most of the year. That didn’t stop him from attending events though; it only slowed him down a little. He had to have his buddy drive him from Toronto all the way to Living Legends in Illinois because he could not bend his knee