You ’ ve played for Ground Zero on the pro level and you ’ ve run a paintball store and field for 27 years . In all your time , what ’ s your best , funniest , craziest paintball story ?
Wow !! there have been so many adventures over the years , from the craziness of Mardi Gras to Fight Night at World Cup , and touring superfund sites with Dean ( owner of Cousins Paintball ) in search of new field locations .
I would have to say one of the craziest trips had to be in France at one of the Toulouse tournaments . So much happened there . First off , amazing playing in a stadium setting with full stands and people cheering ( or booing ) for you . Staging on the outside and looking out over centuries old cities and thinking how amazing it was to be in the countryside of France to play paintball !
But the real craziness was after the event and running around Toulouse at night with teammates like Rosie , Wilroc and Nicky Cuba and members of other teams as well as Johnny from National Paintball . I am pretty sure we ate horse stew for dinner one night , but I don ’ t know , that ’ s how my high school French translated it . Almost got in a fight alongside the Image guys outside a club until we realized the other side was armed and we were not . Later that evening , as we roamed the streets of Toulouse , we spotted an Elvis statue on a balcony of a building . Well , Nicky decided he wanted a closer look and somehow climbed up the building to pose for pics with the “ King ” ( realize there was a certain level of alcohol involved !) We wandered the streets of a French city for hours with some of the best people I know .
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