Team Nitro and some Paintball History

[AGD]

Here is an old school pic for ya all! Notice the date, 1991 and we were using compressed air and barrel condoms. It took five more years until compressed air was a main stream idea and about 10 until condoms made more sense than plugs that shoot out.

From upper left, me, the late Ed Head original founder and captain of the Jacksonville Warriors and Jim Carl who was with Farside at that time. Lower left is Dennis Ashley who now runs Centerflag and Dean Brown the original inventor of the barrel condom.

A short history lesson on new ideas.

AGD

[nastymag]

Always ahead of your time tom ...

it you also look like you wherent eating much back then ;)

[FreakBaller12]

wow..soo much history in that pic. there.
Did you use scuba's fill your own compressed air tanks or..?
How high were you filling those tanks psi wise?
and do you have your original compressed air tank for memory sake?

[wyn1370]

Tom Cruise called, he wants his top gun wardrobe back. :rolleyes:

[luke]

I still have a site rail and a red dot site like Dean Browns. :D

[chairman_mao]

Tom Cruise called, he wants his top gun wardrobe back. :rolleyes:
Wyn you took the owrds right out of my mouth :p

[Thordic]

Hey look its James Woods!

[Muzikman]

I was thinking more along the lines of Ghost Busters.

Hey, I got one of those bodies that Dennis has. Interesting, it's the only other one I ever saw besides The123's.

[Creative Mayhem]

Tom Cruise called, he wants his top gun wardrobe back. :rolleyes:
BWAHAHAHAHHA!!!


Hey look its James Woods!

LOL I was thinking the same thing.

[Athius]

Damn Tom time haven't had any mercy on you. It only been 13 years from that pic and you look pretty old right now.

[skipdogg]

it looks like Jim has a speed stock on his mag. I still have one of those. Also, Dennis probably wasn't able to shoot much without his air hooked up! Nice old school pic. Tom is da man. Keep the forward thinking ideas coming. We like them. oh, and the old school pics too! their sweet...

[SuiciDal Sn Y p ER]

Also, Dennis probably wasn't able to shoot much without his air hooked up!

or a hopper

[TMAXXKING1]

look at those hoppers .... looks a like a hollowed out potato......... what year did the warp come out

[FireITup14]

i like the garbage man jerseys, those are sweet ;)

[FireITup14]

....or flight suits...w/e :p

[hardr0ck68]

hey Tom, i hope you read this soon.

Seeing as you are the most approchable of the old timers and origionators i was woundering if you could write like a history of paintball type thing. It doesnt need to be deep, but maybe just a list of names of forgotten folks who built this community. People like Fred Schults (sp?) who i never knew of before you spoke about him.

I know (from your comments in the retirement thread) that the paintball community might not be seeing much of you anymore, and before you leave i was just hoping i would get to pick your brain more about these founders of our sport. Thanks Tom!

[the123]

I was thinking more along the lines of Ghost Busters.

My thoughts EXACTLY!


Hey, I got one of those bodies that Dennis has. Interesting, it's the only other one I ever saw besides The123's.

I spotted that too!! I haven't used mine in a while, but it works pretty darn good. Would be a pain to clean if you chop a ball.. but who chops anymore?

[MonsterMag]

Wow thats a great picture

:hail: Old School :hail:

[Lee]

got that whole collar turned up thing going on. disco after the games?

those hoppers were the stuff back in the day. a whole 100 rounds on your gun!!!