Super Sunday

Introducing Super Sunday, only available at Skirmish Paintball Nottingham and Paintball Sheffield.

Only available on the 3rd Sunday of every month. Pay just £20 booking fee, and you’ll get your first 100 paintballs absolutely free. You’ll also get all of the following:

• Entrance to an award-winning, top-of-the-range paintball venue,
• Use of the very latest Piranha Paintball Gun. Fire 7 paintballs a second at your mates.
• Tough-wearing, newly-brought and freshly-cleaned camo overalls, with battle pack holders and padded balaclavas.
• Anti-mist goggles, making sure you don’t miss a second of the all out battle.
• Use of constantly improving and innovative gamezones which will take your breath away.

For more information on this fantastic and incredible, money saving offer call on 0800 328 2785.

Paintball videos

Searching around on youtube for a few paintball videos, and I came across this little gem from our Paintball Cobham venue, which is also known as Campaign Paintball.

Vintage film, which was taken in the 90′s down at the site:

Or how about this little gem? It’s a promo video from 1988. How things have changed, eh?

Want to help us out?

Over the next few months, we’ll making some huge and exciting changes to our website and we want you guys to be involved. We love nothing more than our fans and customers, so we want to know what you guys and ladies want to see on our website. Want to be able to play a few games, talk to other paintballers, or simply want to know more about what we offer?

This is your chance to make a difference to Skirmish Paintball Games!

Paintball Advertisement

So i’m sat watching prime-time TV, when the advert break is in full force and amongst all the noise, colours and bombardment of advertisements offering everything from insurance to visiting Wales, I hear the words ‘paintball’. Paintball is never advertised on TV? But then I realised it was one of those funky moon dog websites that offer customized cards for any occasion.

But this made me realize that, even though I’ve only seen one advert on TV for paintball (See Skirmish Paintballs advert), the paintball industry has done pretty well when being placed inside of adverts. Many of the larger companies pay insane amounts of money to create fast paced and cutting edge adverts, and when paintball is used as the back drop, then the industry benefits greatly without the cost.

There has been a fantastic array of adverts over the years that have used paintball as their main theme to sell their products, selling anything from cars, to energy drinks, to lottery tickets.

These videos aren’t posted in any order of preference, more a case of added when I found them.

(These links worked at the time of posting, so I do apologize if they don’t load properly in the future)

1. Nissan QASHQAI – Artistic Advert 60″

2. Powerade Energy Drink

3. Bud Light

4. Euro Millions

We just like to point out that some of the players may not be wearing masks, and that is something we do not accept at Skirmish Paintball Games. Everyone is given the latest in paintball safety equipment!

History of paintball

Not often do we get asked about the history of paintball, but today we had this query and I thought it would be an excellent way to write a series of post’s describing the history of paintball. I’ll be posting a chapter a day (apart from the weekend, of course ) over the next week or so highlight the history of paintball.

Enjoy.

The history of paintball is rather brief, but very interesting. Compared to other sports, paintball is relatively new. It’s origins only go back as far as 1980 when James Hale of Daisy Manufacturing invented and patented what would become the first paintball gun.

However, Hale did not invent the paintball gun with the idea of fun and games in mind. The original paintball gun was used for marking trees and livestock in the field. It was not long before the history of paintball took a more interesting turn.

The history of paintball as a recreational sport began only a year later. In 1981 the first game was played by twelve competitors in New Hampshire. This game was played with paintball pistols that were usually used by the foresting industry for marketing trees and was a game of  ”capture the flag.” This first game was the brainchild of Bob Gumsey, a sporting goods retailer, Hayes Noel,a stockbroker, and Charles Gaines, a writer. The winner of that first game was an initiate named Ritchie White who apparently captured all of the flags without firing a single shot!

The next big development in the history of paintball was the opening of the first outdoor paintball field in Rochester, New York by a developer named Caleb Strong. He later became the head of PMI Northeast along with Charles Gaines. This company now pretty owns the paintball industry in America.

Chapter two to follow..

The top 3 type of paintball games

Over the last 25 years, Skirmish Paintball Games has evolved and adapted to ensure that all our paintball players recieve the highest level of care and customer service and this also includes updating out gamezones. To ensure we stay one step ahead of everyone else, we constantly refine and update the many different types of gamezones we have to provide you with the finest paintball experience possible.

 

Each gamezone provides you with different scenarios, scenary and a fantastic array of buildings and obstacles to make our paintball games challenging and exciting. Here is a run down of our top 3 paintball games that we play at Skirmish Paintball Games:

 

Capture the flag

A paintball classic, capture the flag is simply that; capture the enemies flag and return it to your base before the opposition does. Two flags are located at opposite sides of the paintball field, and the objective is for each team to capture the others flag and return it back to base. This is a versatile game, and can be played in anyone of our gamezones.

 

Attack and defend

One team occupy a castle/fort structure and most defend it from the onslaught of the opposition, who’s task it is to attack the structure and raise the flag that is located within. Game scenarios vary throughout our our network of paintball sites.

 

Team death match

A simple team-based game in which the objective is to take out every member of the oppositions team. This total annihilation game is popular and constantly requested as the first game to play. An excellent way to get used to playing paintball, and get the adrenaline pumping.

 

These aren’t the only game’s that we run at Skirmish Paintball Games, but are the 3 most popular game’s that we run at paintball Sheffield.

 

Interested in finding out more? Call our booking office on 0870 22 55 639

Facebook Messages

It seems like there’s been a lot of updating by the two tech-giants across the pond; Google with its places and HotPot, and now Facebook is introducing a new feature called Facebook Messages.

At an event on Monday, in San Francisco, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a major upgrade to the social network’s messaging system, now call Messages, that is now designed to incorporate other forms of communication; chat, sms and email.

It’s been floating around cyber space for some time that Facebook was in the process of setting up an email system, allowing users to claim their facebook.com email address. Code-named Titan, it was confirmed by Mark Zuckerberg on Monday, and will become an integral feature in Facebook Messages. Dubbed the Gmail Killer, Facebook email will become another bow in the social giants armoury.

Currently in the beta-stages, Facebook Messages is slowly being rolled out and is currently invitation-only. Grab an invite from Facebook, and over the next few days or weeks (They’re not very clear on when) you’ll get an invite offering you to join their latest service.

With a potential contact list of over 500 million users, this could be seen a natural progression for the Sal Palo-based company, and really will make Facebook the on-stop shop when it comes to contacting friends.

As with any update of this scale, there have been worries about privacy and with Facebook collecting not only emails, but also SMS conversation’s, it’s understandable that people are starting to become wary of just how much data Facebook has about us.  Although, in my view, it’s something I will never worry about; I don’t think Facebook will ever mine data to such low-level of granularity and would never affect me on a personal level.

After sending for my invite, I look forward to seeing what this new service has to offer; having numerous email accounts spread across several platforms, I quite like the idea of being able to use Facebook Messages to collect my emails, chat with friends and have it all stored in one central location.

We’ll just have to see how businesses, like our paintball company, can use this new feature to increase our reach to more customers.

Read more about it:

The Washington Post

Arrest after paintball shooting.

You don’t have to look far to find people mis-using paintball markers and causing great harm to others. This machines can fire a paintball at around 300 fps, or 120 mph in proper English.

It seems they don’t understand the implications of shooting a paintball at someone that is unprotected, which is why at Skirmish Paintball Games, we invest heavily in the latest safety gear to ensure that you will never suffer such injuries.

Police charged a Jersey City man early Sunday with committing a series of drive-by paintball shooting that left one woman injured above her left eye, officials said.

Edwin Montalvo, 29, of Lincoln Street, was charged with aggravated assault, reports said.

Montalvo was driving his beige Honda Accord with three unidentified males on New York Avenue when someone from inside the car opened fire on a woman smoking a cigarette on her porch with her sister at 1:10 a.m., reports said.

The victim ducked for cover but was struck above the left eye with a paintball, leaving a half-inch laceration, reports said, noting the victim was taken to Jersey City Medical Center and treated for the injury.

Police later received a call that the group had opened fire on a crowd of people outside the Laguna Lounge on Summit Avenue. A witness at the scene was able to describe the vehicle and provide a partial license plate number. reports said.

Police searched the area and found Montalvo and his car parked outside the Ringside bar on Tonnelle Avenue, reports said.

Officers found two black paintball guns in the back seat and paintball pellets that matched the ones found at the scene of the shootings, reports said.

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2010/11/arrest_in_paintball_shooting_s.html

Guide to paintball terms

Football has ‘offsides’, ‘man-on’ and ‘jockey’.

Cricket has ‘LBW’ and ‘Silly mid-on’.

Paintball has…

Well, thats what we want to talk about here. Currently the fastest growing sport in Europe, paintball, like any other sport, has it’s very own unique set of vocabulary for it’s specific equipment needed to play.

If someone isn’t familiar with paintball, they’re likely to get their ‘hopper’ and ‘marker’s’ mixed. Here’s a quick guide so some basic paintball terminology:

Paintballs

Paintballs are round capsules containing special non-toxic, biodegradable, water-soluble paint that are fired from paintball guns, or markers. To put it simply they are the ammunition for paintball markers.

Markers

Another term that is used to describe a paintball gun as the main objective in paintball is to ‘mark’ or ‘tag an opponent. Plus, paintball marker sounds a lot more pleasant than a paintball gun.

Hopper

A plastic container that is slotted on top of the marker, much like the magazine that slots into a rifle. Hoppers can usually container between 150 and 200 paintballs.

Battle Pack

Custom built, waist-mounted paintball carrier (much like Batmans utility belt). Can fit up to four ‘pods’, each can carry an extra 100 paintballs which allows the wearer to take upto 400 extra paintballs into the game.

Combat Suit

Combat suits are supplied to all our players, to ensure that they’re clothes stay clean and also provide a little more protection.

Pyrotechnics

An umbrella term that is used for the smoke grenades and smoke bombs which can be purchased on-site.

Gamezones

The game scenarios or fields in which the paintball is played, often decorated with natural or man-mad structures to add that extra depth to the game.

 

I hope that’s cleared up a few terms and words you’ll hear at Skirmish Paintball. If you have any other questions, then call us on 0870 22 55 639.

Wakefield FC Juniors

Skirmish Wakefield and Operation Laser Tag are proud to announce that over the coming 2010-11 football season, we’ll be sponsoring 2 Wakefield FC Junior teams.

We just want to say good luck lads, and give it your best!