Paintball Magazine March 2016 | Page 60

Photo by Sheldon Carless playing magfed and thought to myself, ‘I could do this’ so I joined the small group that were posting videos. I had an upper hand because I already had some experience with editing since I was editing videos for video games. I saw a lot of parallels between the video games and paintball. So I took my knowledge and added some special effects, trying to grab the attention of those that played video games interested. My end goal in doing this was to get maybe 1,000 views and making about 20 or 30 dollars so I would be able to support my paintball addiction. It went form that to me now, having the largest paintball YouTube channel in the world.” DO YOU HAVE ANY SPONSORS? “Currently I am sponsored by Enola Gaye, I am looking forward to using their smoke grenades on the field.” WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE EVENT OR GAME THAT YOU HAVE ATTENDED? “I was able to fly to the UK in November of 2014 for a magfed game. It was a 2 day affair, and was incredibly well 060 paintball.media magazine run and a ton of fun. It is definitely in my list of top favorite events. I was also able to attend an event in France. There was a lot of really well ran games. Another one is the Cold War Bunker that I was able to attend in Nova Scotia; all of those are definitely in my list of top favorite events.” “Really any event that is just well run, and very well organized that just keeps the flow throughout the day, those events are the ones I love. I am not a huge fan of the super big games, because there seems to be no structure. You just walk around, get in a gunfight and walk back, a lot of walking and I am not a huge fan of that. I try to stick with the smaller games that seem to have a lot more focus, maybe 50 people or so.” WHAT OTHER ACTIVITIES DO YOU PARTICIPATE IN OUTSIDE OF PAINTBALL? “I am a pretty big skier. I used to race downhill when I was a teenager. After that I became a ski instructor. I still love to ski, and now I am trying to get my son into it as well. I would like to get more into kayaking. I have done some flat water kayaking and some white water kayaking,