Paintball Magazine March 2016 | Page 58

Photo by Pistol Photography started playing by myself.” “Ever since the first time it was always stuck in my mind, thinking about the game, the thrill, the fear, the excitement. You never forget the first time. Also after playing and you shoot your first person, you just get filled with emotion, you feel amazing! Or having a friend behind you that shoots you in the back because they are scared and has an itchy trigger finger.” “I was also part of an online gaming group who would all get together once a year and head down to ION in Pennsylvania. One year I decided that I was going to travel with them. So I got my own gear and started playing at CQB, in Toronto. After that it turned into heading out to the field every single weekend, just because I could. I always had a lot of fun even on the walk on games.” “I started off playing with a Tippmann CR1, which was hopper fed back in 2011. Everyone around me had these TAC Caps, which limited the amount of paint they were using, except one person who had a magfed marker. So with all these TAC Caps I fit in, because I was pla Z[