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My name is Mike Peverill. I’m here at Pev’s Paintball Park in Aldie, Virginia. I’ve been playing paintball nearly 30 years. I’ve played professional paintball with numerous pro teams all over the world. This facility here was built from the ground up for paintball, kind of like a paintball Disney Land. Our website is www.pevs.com. Hopefully you can come out and visit us sometime.

Choosing a paintball mask is not difficult, but you need to remember one important thing, and my rule for the last twenty years of owning a paintball business is your eyes — you’re only given two of them, and you always want to protect your eyes. So, I always suggest going for comfort and quality over just trying to spend less money on paintball goggles just because you don’t want to spend money on them. Well, remember, your eyes are very important to you, you only have two of them. So I tell people, go with quality goggles, ones you feel like you’re not going to want to take off your head every five minutes because they fog, they’re uncomfortable, they itch, they scratch, whatever happens. So what I have here, this is a basic, what we call, “rental goggle.” It’s the cheap of the cheap, it’s a bottom-of-the-line goggle, but it’s designed for repetitive use so that someone who’s wearing them, you know, for hygiene reasons, for example, it’s got a rubber gasket inside of it instead of foam, so that you’re not wearing someone else’s goggles later on that’s sweated on them. The difference is, you want a quality goggle to wear that’s comfortable. This is not comfortable; a rubber gasket pressed against your face — not comfortable. This is a single-pane lens, very basic; in high humidity, it’s going to fog up on you. My next one here is the same goggle, but the difference is that it’s got the foam insert on the inside, so it’s still a beginner goggle, but it’s a step up; it has foam, so it’s more comfortable on your face so you’re less prone to take it off.

Now, stepping up to another set of goggles, this is now the higher-end goggles; mid to higher-range goggle. It’s a profiler. It has the foam on the inside. It has a wider peripheral. It also stands off your face a little bit more. The reason why it does that is it lets it breathe. It has an anti-fog coated lens, so it reduces the chances of fogging. Also, this is one that you can wear with glasses. If you wear glasses, it’s got a big inset frame in there to let your glasses fit inside there fine and not feel constricted with the glasses.

Now, you really want to jump up to your high-end goggles, then you have something like this. It’s very comfortable. Guys wear this goggle, forget they have it on their face, because it’s really light, featherweight. It has a lot of foam on the inside. It holds tight to the face. It has a tinted lens, and it’s super-comfortable, but very small, and small to your face. I always believe with going in for quality, high-end goggle. Me, it doesn’t matter what I’m buying, I want the best when it comes to goggles for safety, but I don’t want to feel the urge to take them off during the day.

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My name is Mike Peverill. I’m here at Pev’s Paintball Park in Aldie, Virginia. I’ve been playing paintball nearly 30 years. I’ve played professional paintball with numerous pro teams all over the world. This facility here was built from the ground up for paintball, kind of like a paintball Disney Land. Our website is www.pevs.com. Hopefully you can come out and visit us sometime.

So you’ve been playing paintball and now you’re anxious to try the paintball tournament and you’re thinking, “How do I get on a paintball team? How do I play in a paintball tournament?” Well it’s actually pretty easy. If you go to a local paintball field in your area, most paintball fields have a team of guys that are already there, who practice there in exchange for helping them out at the field just so they can use it as a training facility for themselves. It doesn’t have to be big and fancy. It can just be basically a simple speed ball field. So if you’re looking for a team to get on, the best way to do it is to either go to a paintball field locally and try to find a team that you’re interested to play in, or go to pbnation.com, choose the area you’re in, and they have forums. And you get on there and you can post: “Hey I’m looking for a paintball team to play on. I’d like to play tournament paintball,” and find one that’s near you. Or if you’re willing to travel, then you can go visit some other areas. I mean, I used to travel, airplane every weekend just to go to practice. I would fly to California to practice and fly back home on Monday. Then I also used to drive several hours in the beginning when I was an amateur. It all depends on what you wanna do. Now, getting into a tournament’s not hard either because if you go on and use the Internet and go to websites, especially pbnation.com, it lists all these different tournaments. Or just do a Google search for paintball tournament in your area that you’re willing to go to and look. Basically, you can register. You don’t have to be qualified. The only time you have to be qualified to play, is when you play in a big national event that has different divisions. Anybody can play at any paintball tournament on the national level in the beginner division if their credentials show that they are a beginner player. And look for other teams to joins. But it’s pretty simple and once you get there that’s your starting point. That’s your first step in the building blocks of being a paintball team. Then after that, once you start playing in a couple tournaments, you’ll start to meet other tournament teams, you maybe find another team that wants to recruit you or you wanna leave the team you’re on to try to take the next step, you know, to work advancement. ‘Cause eventually your goal, if you wanna play tournament paintball, is to eventually work your way into the pros. And the only way to do that is to play more tournaments. So again, go to your local paintball field or look on pbnation.com, find yourself a tournament that’s going on or a team that’s looking for it, go try out or ask them to join. Especially in the beginner levels, you don’t have to try out. Make your own team! There’s tournaments now called 3-men tournaments where you just pick 2 buddies. So find 2 buddies, say “Let’s go join a tournament,” find a local 3-men tournament in your area, sign up by calling the number or go to a website, and show up that day ready to play! Simple as that!

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My name is Mike Peverill. I’m here at Pev’s Paintball Park in Aldie, Virginia. I’ve been playing paintball nearly 30 years. I’ve played professional paintball with numerous pro teams all over the world. This facility here was built from the ground up for paintball, kind of like a paintball Disney Land. Our website is www.pevs.com. Hopefully you can come out and visit us sometime.

Tippmann Model ninety-eight, workhorse of the paintball industry. Tippmann’s been around for over twenty-five years. They’re one of the founders in the semi-auto paintball gun, They’re originators. They make a good quality product. The reason why they’ve been around so long is because of the quality product they make. We use these at our paintball park. We have close to five hundred of these paintball guns we use. We use them because of durability, reliability, and they keep on working. I mean you throw them in the trunk of a car and, you know, take it out and six months from now it will play again, and it’s still gonna work. A paintball field, you drop it on the ground a million times, it’s gonna keep on working. And when you’re running a thousand people a day through your paintball park, you need a paintball gun that’s gonna be reliable and durable. So it’s a great little gun for fun. At the same time, you know when I’m playing with the guys with electronic guns, it’s tough because the rate of fire that’s one of the downsides is gunning. You know, you’re shooting less than ten balls a second with this as opposed to shooting, you know, fifteen balls with one of these electronic paintball guns. So there’s a big difference in what you get with what you run it up against, but again, workhorse of the paintball, a great little gun, has all the little features, semi-auto. You know you pull the trigger, fire, good to go, simple, has a safety. It let’s you change the barrel to different size barrels that you want. I recommend a slightly longer barrel than a shorter barrel. It’s easy to use and it’s reliable. It’s ready to go, every time.

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My name is Mike Peverill. I’m here at Pev’s Paintball Park in Aldie, Virginia. I’ve been playing paintball nearly 30 years. I’ve played professional paintball with numerous pro teams all over the world. This facility here was built from the ground up for paintball, kind of like a paintball Disney Land. Our website is www.pevs.com. Hopefully you can come out and visit us sometime.

Chronographing your gun, it’s a very simple process, but everywhere you play paintball you should chronograph your gun. The rules say that 300 ft/s is the maximum velocity you’re allowed to shoot a paintball gun. It’s the safe velocity at the max. We typically prefer 280 to 290, especially if there’s a lot of beginners on the field, but 300 is the safe velocity that can be used for paintball goggles and so forth. Basically, there’s this main device here, you’re basically going to shoot the paintball gun over the top of it. We do it inside of the tube to collect the paint so that there’s not a big mess, and basically and you’re just going to stick the gun up on top the chronograph and when it’s ready to go, you pull the trigger and when you pull the trigger the device will tell me the velocity and right now it says 255. If I pull it again; 257, pull it again; 251. So I’m within the velocity that they’re asking to be shooting at, so I can choose either raise my velocity or keep it the same. In this case, because of the parties that are playing, we’re going to keep it at this velocity because it’ll stay stable between 250 and 260. If you were going to change the velocity, it’s simple as basically using your adjustment tool, every paintball gun is different, but this one here has got a velocity adjustment tool on the side. You would crank it, turn in or turn out, depending on what you want to do to accomplish, and once you change your velocity, you fire 3 more times to clear the gun, to make sure pressure’s changed, and see now my velocity’s up at 260, so now I’ve made the changes I need.

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My name is Mike Peverill. I’m here at Pev’s Paintball Park in Aldie, Virginia. I’ve been playing paintball nearly 30 years. I’ve played professional paintball with numerous pro teams all over the world. This facility here was built from the ground up for paintball, kind of like a paintball Disney Land. Our website is www.pevs.com. Hopefully you can come out and visit us sometime.

What I have here is a tracer paintball gun. It is a pump paintball gun, which kind of dates itself back in the day. We used to start it out with bolt action where you pull the bolt and fire one time. Then they graduated to pump action, which means you have to pump the handle back to fire it. It’s not semi-auto mode like most paintball guns. Most kids these days don’t even know what this paintball gun does. However, this was a very competitive game. A lot of people who play in the pro circuit now still play pump gun because it slows the rate of fire down but increases your skill because basically you can’t just pull the trigger and fire in semi-auto mode because nothing’s going to happen. Basically you have to pull back and fire, pull back and fire. Now, I don’t have a hopper on top of this right now just for safety reasons, because I don’t have a barrel cover on it. I want to show how the pump action works. But a lot of times with a pump action gun like this, a tracer, can go into a rapid fire mode with a pump action where you basically just hold the trigger down and keep pulling and that’s how you can speed up the fire on the gun. A lot of guys didn’t realize that back in the day. They would pull back the gun and pull the trigger. But if you got into a fire fight, you basically get down, you hold and pull the trigger in just like that, and it will give a rate of speed that you want that’s comparable to semi-auto guns. So when you learn how the mechanisms work and also understand some of these guns that will allow you to go into that fanny mode of the pump trigger it makes all the difference in the world.

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My name is Mike Peverill. I’m here at Pev’s Paintball Park in Aldie, Virginia. I’ve been playing paintball nearly 30 years. I’ve played professional paintball with numerous pro teams all over the world. This facility here was built from the ground up for paintball, kind of like a paintball Disney Land. Our website is www.pevs.com. Hopefully you can come out and visit us sometime.

A lot of people ask me all the time, how come some paint costs 40 bucks a case, and some costs 80 bucks a case? And there is a big difference in the quality of paintballs. What people don’t understand is paintballs being made by food gelatins, similar to a Vitamin E capsule. They are biodegradable, and they’re affected by the environment. So, humidity, for example, moisture, heat. You know, that all affects the quality of the paintball. So, when I tell people the curing process for the paintball, the longer the curing process, typically, you’re gonna have a better quality paintball. So obviously, that’s why the cost goes up. And also some of the ingredients inside the paintballs. Some paintballs have more starch and less of some of the other ingredients. But the starch is the cheaper ingredient. And some have oil in them, similar to fry grease, for example. So it all depends on what you want. A really hard paintball that you find in these stores in these buckets. The reason why they hurt, and the reason why they’re no good is because, you know, the ingredients in them are sub-par. So, at our paintball facility, for years, I worked in the manufacturing industry for paintball as well. And I understand what it takes to make paintballs. And our paintballs here at Pev’s Paintball are custom-made, based on the blends that I choose, that works for Pev’s Paintball and the environment we’re in. I want a great experience. I don’t want the ball to break in the gun, so you gotta have a blend. In order to get that right blend, it costs a little bit more. So based on the ingredients that’s used to make our brand of paintballs. So basically, what happens, is we take the paint, and, you know, we work with the paintball manufacturer to make the paint blend that works for us. If it works well coming out of our rental guns, so it never breaks. ‘Cause remember, paint coming out of a rental gun, if it comes out broken every time, like a spray can, the customer’s not gonna have a good time. They’re not gonna wanna come back. I need them to have an enjoyable experience. So I went them to have the best grade paint they can. But at the same time, they’re not gonna spend 80 bucks on a case of paint for some high-end stuff. They’re gonna want to spend a little bit less. So, it all varies on what you’re doing. So, you need to go to a quality paint. But, like, if you’re playing in a tournament. Like, playing in a professional paintball tournament, those guys use a paint that’s so brittle, that you just drop it 1 time on the ground, it won’t even bounce, it breaks. But it’s working in guns that they’re designed to use, which are these high end-guns that cost $1000 that have low pressure. This paint is like the combination in between. So if you want the right paint, pick a paint that’s gonna fit your ball size to the barrel, and also pick a good paint that’s gonna last in the environment. The heat, humidity, and something that’s not too hard, that’s not gonna break.

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My name is Mike Peverill. I’m here at Pev’s Paintball Park in Aldie, Virginia. I’ve been playing paintball nearly 30 years. I’ve played professional paintball with numerous pro teams all over the world. This facility here was built from the ground up for paintball, kind of like a paintball Disney Land. Our website is www.pevs.com. Hopefully you can come out and visit us sometime.

Connecting an air tank to a paintball gun is not a hard thing to do, but most people, they don’t really understand what’s happening because they hear the air escaping and they feel like something’s wrong, and vice versa.

So what happens is, you’ve gotta remember, on a paintball tank, you have these O rings on the end, and the O rins is what’s gonna make the seal complete. If the O rings go bad, then the seal’s gonna be bad, and you’re gonna be leaking air. So it’s very important that when you put the tank on the gun, you make that complete seal. And I’m gonna show you taking a tank off why it’s important to do certain things so you don’t blow your O rings, because eventually that can be a costly mistake because you’re always replacing O rings. And imagine if you’re out somewhere, and you’re taking your tank off, and then you blow the O ring, and you don’t have any more O rings, then you’re not playing, because without the air you’re done for the day. You may have to drive somewhere to get a new O ring.

So anyhow, screwing on the tank is simple. Line the threads up, make sure they’re straight. As you turn it, make sure you feel it connect in there, because you don’t wanna strip the threads. So once you feel it going in the right way, take it all the way in (I just heard the gun pressurize), finish it off, now it’s to the end. Now it’s got a complete seal, it’s done. Ready to go. Ready to fire.

Now, taking the paintball tank off, what I tell people all the time is “Remember, don’t just unscrew it until it’s all done.” Unscrew it about a half a turn, and then start firing your gun. As you fire your gun, unscrew it, there you go. It takes the pressure off the valve. Unscrews, and now we’re done.

Now, what people typically do that you don’t wanna do is just start unscrewing, and then you’ll hear an air blast. What happens is there’s air trapped in the gun. If there’s so much pressure in the paintball gun locked in these hoses, it’ll take forever to escape, so that’s why you want to pull the trigger as you’re firing. When you pull the trigger as you’re firing it takes the pressure off the valve, it adds longevity to the pin valve on your tank, and saves you O rings.

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My name is Mike Peverill. I’m here at Pev’s Paintball Park in Aldie, Virginia. I’ve been playing paintball nearly 30 years. I’ve played professional paintball with numerous pro teams all over the world. This facility here was built from the ground up for paintball, kind of like a paintball Disney Land. Our website is www.pevs.com. Hopefully you can come out and visit us sometime.

This is a CO2 tank. CO2’s been around since the beginning of paintball. That was the first type of gas that was used to propel the paintball gun. Then it was followed by compressed air. Compressed air is basically natural breathing air, like in a scuba diving compressor, as opposed to CO2, which is carbon dioxide. The difference is, you know, CO2 is an unstable gas. What happens is as it gets warmer and gets hot, it goes to a liquid, I mean a gas form, which can cause an increased spike in what’s gonna happen in pressure. As opposed to being in liquid, I mean, you know, which is a different velocity. So, so this was always changing. Compressed air is not changing. So what happens, if you want a paintball gun to be efficient, and get more shots per tank, and not have to fill up as often, you want compressed air. Plus compressed air, the bottle itself, fiberglass, weighs half the weight of this metal heavy CO2 gas filled container. So I mean, a big difference. Imagine being on the paintball field for 4 hours, 5 hours, playing all day long. You wanna carry the gun that’s gonna be the lightest, and you’re gonna want compressed air. Plus, you don’t wanna have to come back and refill as much. Now, CO2 tank, that’s the cheaper way to go for your gun. It costs less to buy the tank. This may cost more, but in the long run, it’s gonna pay for itself numerous times. Because more shots per tank, better gas efficiency, better accuracy. So that, you know, CO2, every third or fourth ball you shoot, the velocity’s gonna drop, ’cause you’re shooting so fast, it won’t reach your target, it’s wasting your paintballs. This one is always gonna be on target, same velocity all the time.

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My name is Mike Peverill. I’m here at Pev’s Paintball Park in Aldie, Virginia. I’ve been playing paintball nearly 30 years. I’ve played professional paintball with numerous pro teams all over the world. This facility here was built from the ground up for paintball, kind of like a paintball Disney Land. Our website is www.pevs.com. Hopefully you can come out and visit us sometime.

Playing paintball safely is about looking after the best interest of not only you but everyone else you’re playing with. And remember, you’re playing with a gun that can shoot a projectile at 200 miles per hour, 300 feet per second. So when you think about that, you think about what damage that can do if people aren’t prepared. Or if they aren’t prepared like you are to play paintball, which means wearing a pair of goggles, or wearing, using a safety device on their gun. I mean, if this was a loaded gun and you put a barrel cover on the gun. That helps prevents accidents, because accidents do happen. Some of them accidentally pull this trigger and fire it, and not even realize that it wasn’t on safe or it was cocked, and this will catch the ball from doing that. Wearing safety goggles at all times.

This is about making sure you do the right thing to protect this sport, and be safe, and protect others around you so that everyone else can keep playing. Putting the, de-cocking the gun, or put it on safe. When you put these things on safe so they can’t fire anymore, that protects you and it protects everyone else you’re playing with. Don’t shoot cats and animals in your neighborhood. Don’t shoot at houses. Play at places approved for paintball. Play smart. Don’t shoot at people, unless they have gear on it as well. I know it sounds like it could be a fun joke to shoot someone in the butt when they’re not paying attention, but remember, if they’re not dressed for paintball, you shouldn’t be shooting them.

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My name is Mike Peverill. I’m here at Pev’s Paintball Park in Aldie, Virginia. I’ve been playing paintball nearly 30 years. I’ve played professional paintball with numerous pro teams all over the world. This facility here was built from the ground up for paintball, kind of like a paintball Disney Land. Our website is www.pevs.com. Hopefully you can come out and visit us sometime.

Tactical paintball, or scenario paintball as it’s referred to — that’s the type of paintball that most people, they get geared up and dress like they’re gonna go out and play war, have a battle. These guys will come and outfit their guns with all the great features, you know, everything from the expandable stocks to the scopes to the robot sides to the tripod legs to the silencer type devices or apex barrels that allow them to shoot different directions. And basically, it’s all about the look as well as the game, I mean, they’re trying to fill in that whole video game model as well to play it like a war, basically. One of the other things you need is camouflage clothing. Mostly in scenario paintball, guys will be wearing camouflage tops and bottoms. They’ll have their faces painted with camouflage. They’ll wear dark hats and dark goggles. And they’ll go out prepared to play, and they’re prepared like a unit. Scenario paintball is basically like playing in the military. These guys will take it serious, they’ll get together in their regiments and their units and their squads and they’ll set up guys to be their leader, guys to be their machine gunners, guys to be their scouts, their snipers. It all depends on what role you like, but every paintball park offers areas where you can go play scenario paintball. When you go to these places, scenario paintball, you wanna look for, basically, you know, the novelty props, you know, the towns, the forts, the buildings, the towers, the cool stuff that makes you feel like you’re Rambo or you’re playing in a battlefield game or you’re playing one of those Call of Duty video games. ‘Cause really that’s what paintball is, paintball is like really playing the video game in real life. You’re out there, you’re running around, it’s like someone’s controlling you but you’re all dressed up, locked and loaded, ready to go, with your cool stuff on, a gun like this that looks like a, basically, a Terminator machine gun, and you’re ready to roll. But this is scenario paintball, a lot of people love it, there’s a lot of big event you can join in to. There’s one out in Oklahoma every year that’s got five thousand players called Oklahoma D-Day. You show up and join there and there’s just thousands of guys dressed up, ready to play paintball. They’re dressed in their military gear, some dressed as Germans, some dressed as Americans, some dresses as Allies, Axis, you know, dressed with all their gear, ready to go, fancy guns that look like machine guns, sniper gun, but that is scenario paintball.

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My name is Mike Peverill. I’m here at Pev’s Paintball Park in Aldie, Virginia. I’ve been playing paintball nearly 30 years. I’ve played professional paintball with numerous pro teams all over the world. This facility here was built from the ground up for paintball, kind of like a paintball Disney Land. Our website is www.pevs.com. Hopefully you can come out and visit us sometime.

Basically, renegade paintball is playing in people’s backyards, on your own property, anywhere where it’s not run by an organization, such as a paintball field, pro-shops, or league. And the reason why the industry doesn’t like them is because the perception is it’s not safe. Because remember, at a paintball park, you have people that are paid there to watch them to make sure everybody follows the instructions, to make sure you have goggles, to make sure you’re wearing, you’re shooting the right velocity with the paint gun, to make sure you use your barrel covers on your gun. So the industry itself is skittish when it comes to renegade paintball, but it happens all the time. People play on their own property all the time, so I’m not gonna act like it doesn’t happen.

So if you you’re gonna plan a paintball renegade party? The big thing is reach out to all your friends who know you have paintball guns. The other thing is it’s like a network. With, with the Internet these days, you can go on these blogs, these forums across the nation and say, “Hey, we’re doing a pickup game at this address, on this day. Everybody show up and let’s play.” And typically, you can have anywhere from 10 to 100 people show up. It depends on where you are, and how many people follow. The big key is safety. It doesn’t matter what you do. Remember, if you’re the one setting up the party? I urge you. If you care about the sport as much as I do? Safety is the number one key. And make sure that they wear goggles. Make sure they use barrel-blocking devices. And make sure they chronograph under 300 feet per second.

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My name is Mike Peverill. I’m here at Pev’s Paintball Park in Aldie, Virginia. I’ve been playing paintball nearly 30 years. I’ve played professional paintball with numerous pro teams all over the world. This facility here was built from the ground up for paintball, kind of like a paintball Disney Land. Our website is www.pevs.com. Hopefully you can come out and visit us sometime.

It’s all about strategy. I tell everybody, a paintball field is like a chess match. It’s playing a board game, you have boundaries. And I tell everybody, the secret to winning a paintball match is A) you know, playing as a team. B) understanding where the other team’s gonna be coming and attacking from. And the #1 rule I teach when I coach kids all over the world to play paintball, is first, learn how not to lose the game before you learn how to win the game. And what that means, is, you need to look at the field and say, “Hey, how can the other team beat me?” When you can figure out how the other team’s gonna beat you on that field, and you figure out a strategy to stop it, then you’re positioning yourself to better win that game. Because once you stop the other team from beating you, then you can win. Most people walk the paintball fields and say, “Hey, I’m gonna beat the time by going here, going here, doing this,” and they don’t understand the other team’s doing the same thing. I’m gonna go here, go here, go here. But really, the way to win in a paintball field is strategy. Working as a team, getting your teammates to be all on board with the plan. And understanding that the field has multiple objectives, multiple places that you can be beat on. And learning how to stop the other team from beating you on the weakest spots on the field. So identify your weak spot on the field. And once you’ve figured that out, and you know how to shut that down, then you’re positioning yourself, game-wise and team strategy-wise, to win the game.

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My name is Mike Peverill. I’m here at Pev’s Paintball Park in Aldie, Virginia. I’ve been playing paintball nearly 30 years. I’ve played professional paintball with numerous pro teams all over the world. This facility here was built from the ground up for paintball, kind of like a paintball Disney Land. Our website is www.pevs.com. Hopefully you can come out and visit us sometime.

A lot of people come in and say, “Hey look, you know I’ve played paintball in my backyard” or “I play on the property I have on my farm or friends of ours have woods in the backyard.” And what I tell people, you know, the first thing you need to think about is safety, you know, and also set up some boundaries. Put some ribbon or surveyors ribbon around the area where you know is the safe zone your going to play in. ‘Cause that’s what you need. Everybody on the team needs to know, thats playing in the game, what the boundaries are. Then the next thing to do is basically just build barricades. If you have access to pallets, or pieces of wood, or logs, just make yourself some structures, set them up on the field and you can hide behind them. Remember you want them to be large enough to hide behind, but not so large that it’s obtrusive, that it’s no fun playing the game because you’re in this huge bunker and no can get to it. You want to make it competitive. So what I tell people is, make some the size of your body, you know, and then make some like up to three times the size of your body. That way, worse case scenario is, two guys can fit in the bunker together if they need to and then as a secondary move they can move them to another spot. It’s pretty simple, just go out, lay out a terrain on your property, set some boundary tape, and tell everybody “These are the paint boundaries, it’s where everyone has to stay within inside the field.” And then basically set up some bunkers so that everybody on both sides of the field have an even amount of bunkers to hide behind.

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My name is Mike Peverill. I’m here at Pev’s Paintball Park in Aldie, Virginia. I’ve been playing paintball nearly 30 years. I’ve played professional paintball with numerous pro teams all over the world. This facility here was built from the ground up for paintball, kind of like a paintball Disney Land. Our website is www.pevs.com. Hopefully you can come out and visit us sometime.

Picking a barrel size has some science to it and some personal preference to it. A lot of people pick a barrel because it’s the longest one we have. I mean they’ll go for the longer one just because they think it’ll shoot further. But in all reality, it’s not going to make a difference in how much further it shoots. The recommended barrel size that you’ll want to have is always around 12 inches or longer — not less than 12 inches, because you want it to have accuracy.

Another thing that is important about a barrel is not only the quality — like this one is a CP barrel, which makes fantastic barrels — but also the porting. You’ll see the porting on it with all these holes that are drilled in the barrel. What that does is it allows the gas — the air — behind the ball as it’s traveling down the barrel to stabilize near the end. So when that ball comes out the end of the barrel and that big explosion happens where the air dissipates all around the ball, it doesn’t cause it all to have so much energy that it hooks one way. So what happens is that most of the energy is used to create velocity and speed as it works all the way down the barrel. And as it gets down to the last couple inches of the barrel, it dissipates some that energy. The ball comes out and all that energy breaks evenly so that ball doesn’t hook. The ball stays stable and gives it a straight shoot. So that’s why I tell everybody that it’s important to go with a barrel that’s ported. If you have a barrel that’s not ported or has a muzzle brake, I would not use it. It’s going to only make your balls shoot everywhere that you shouldn’t be shooting.

The other big category for the barrels is the caliber. Paintballs are made by different manufacturers, so they are different calibers. So what I suggest you do is go to different paintball fields and ask them what caliber paint they’re using. If you’re unsure, you can always purchase yourself something like this. It’s a caliber measuring device. What happens is you take the ball and you stick in the hole to find out what caliber it is. And like this one one here, it’s a little small for the 686, and it’s right on the money for a 683. So typically you want a barrel size that is a 685 caliber bore size that’s not too snug but snug enough that air is trapped behind it and pushes it evenly and pushes the ball all the way to the end of the barrel. If you have a really big bore size and a very small ball, when that ball travels down the barrel, it’s going to wobble. And when it comes out the end, it’s going to lose its trajectory of being accurate and you don’t want that to happen.

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My name is Mike Peverill. I’m here at Pev’s Paintball Park in Aldie, Virginia. I’ve been playing paintball nearly 30 years. I’ve played professional paintball with numerous pro teams all over the world. This facility here was built from the ground up for paintball, kind of like a paintball Disney Land. Our website is www.pevs.com. Hopefully you can come out and visit us sometime.

The NPPL is a national professional paintball league, and it’s the governing body that sanctions, across the United States. It’s been around the longest of all the leagues, nearly 20 years, and basically all the big pro teams and pro players have played in the league, amateur team, semi-pro, novice, all the way down to beginners.

And when you’re ready to play in the National Professional Paintball League, you know, basically you just have to have a team to compete with and enter into league. And if you were to go to NPPL.com, and basically you’ll see this registration information and sign up based on your criteria for division. It really depends on your experience and level of play.

If you’re a beginner, if it’s your first time, you’re automatically going to choose beginner, which is the beginner series. And register, putting your information, you’ll get your NPPL ID card, and set up and you’re ready to go. Each member of your team has to do that. Basically it will tell you where all the events you can compete at, in the United States, and then also the regional events. NPPL also has regional tournaments, which are, you get points towards the national circuit, but you can go and just compete in the regional events for prizes as well. Basically, do the baby steps. You start working your way there, getting some tournaments under your belt and working your way up to the next level.

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My name is Mike Peverill. I’m here at Pev’s Paintball Park in Aldie, Virginia. I’ve been playing paintball nearly 30 years. I’ve played professional paintball with numerous pro teams all over the world. This facility here was built from the ground up for paintball, kind of like a paintball Disney Land. Our website is www.pevs.com. Hopefully you can come out and visit us sometime.

The Ion Paintball Gun, created by SmartParts, great little gun, it was the high-end electronic gun at a low-end price. When it came out, you know, they made so many of them they couldn’t keep up with demand. It was a great little gun. But it didn’t have a lot of extra features you could add to it, and some people say it actually hurt the paintball industry, because it kind of crowded, you know, pushed out the bigger guys, on the more expensive guns.

But, at the same time, it doesn’t exist anymore. The company’s gone out of business. But it was a gun that everyone could buy, even as a beginner and basically have a very fast electronic gun. You know it didn’t teach you skill, you know, just pull the trigger and there it was. But, you know, unfortunately, you can’t get parts for it anymore. So a good little gun, a lot of them were sold, but unfortunately it’s no longer manufactured.

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My name is Mike Peverill. I’m here at Pev’s Paintball Park in Aldie, Virginia. I’ve been playing paintball nearly 30 years. I’ve played professional paintball with numerous pro teams all over the world. This facility here was built from the ground up for paintball, kind of like a paintball Disney Land. Our website is www.pevs.com. Hopefully you can come out and visit us sometime.

Paintball. It’s all the same. You’re still shooting a paintball gun, so it doesn’t matter whether you’re playing a tournament, a speedball style or whether you’re playing rec ball style. Paintball wars are all going to be the same concept, which is you’re shooting a paintball gun, and you’re shooting a paintball at someone else. So what I tell everybody what’s very to remember the rules are, it’s safety. The No. 1 safety thing you’ve got to remember is to keep your goggles on at all times when you’re on the playing field. Barrel covers. Remember your barrel covers. When you’re eliminated or the game is over and you’re walking off the field, lock your gun and then also put the barrel cover on the gun. The other thing to remember is cronographing the gun. The velocity of the guns, we have to cronograph for safety. And it means, three hundred feet per second is the max in our industry that safety will allow us to shoot a paintball gun. So, cronograph your guns. When you’re at a field or even if you don’t play at a field, if you’re playing in your backyard, randomly cronograph your gun. Because it’s very important. If you don’t have a cronograph, go to your local paintball pro shop or field and say, “”Hey, would you cronograph my gun for me? I’d like to set it for 280, 290, but never more than 300 feet per second.”” It’s critical.

Basically, the rules are it’s when you shoot someone, they’re out. They’re eliminated. In most paintball games, it doesn’t matter where you get hit. If you get hit on the body, or even if you get hit on the gun, on the equipment, you’re considered eliminated. And you’re eliminated for that gun. So, you know, respect the fact that you’re eliminated and walk off the field, keeping your goggles on, put your barrel blocking device on. Keep it simple. The no. 1 rule, basic safety rules in paintball worldwide is goggles, barrel covers and respect your other paintball player. When you’re shot, walk off the field, and play safe.

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My name is Mike Peverill. I’m here at Pev’s Paintball Park in Aldie, Virginia. I’ve been playing paintball nearly 30 years. I’ve played professional paintball with numerous pro teams all over the world. This facility here was built from the ground up for paintball, kind of like a paintball Disney Land. Our website is www.pevs.com. Hopefully you can come out and visit us sometime.

A very popular question I get asked all the time is, “”Hey, I’m gonna go out and play paintball for the first time. You know, you’ve been playing for a long time. Give me your best tip.”” And what I tell people, in all the years I’ve learned in playing paintball, professionally and on the circuit, and just for fun, is basically the first thing is always wear dark clothes. ‘Cause when you’re out there on a paintball field for fun, remember, the flashy orange colors, yellow colors, bright colors, even white sticks out, and makes yourself a target. I tell people to blend in. If you don’t have camouflage clothing to wear, wear dark clothing. Wear long sleeves and long pants. And the other thing is, wear tennis shoes versus wearing boots. I see so many people come out wearing combat boots, and their feet start hurting them. Remember, think of paintball as a sport activity, not so much as real battle. So go plan to know that you’re gonna be on your feet the whole time. And wear a good pair of comfortable tennis shoes or something of that nature. But wear dark colored shoes. I mean, even guys who come out wearing white tennis shoes, I mean, we look for those all the time. Guys run into the woods and say, “Hey, look at the guy’s white shoes sticking out.” So I tell everybody, the first thing you should always do is come out wearing dark clothes. The other thing is, when you’re playing, play as a team. Find a buddy, get on the field, and remember, whatever you do, especially if it’s your first time, don’t run up the middle. Running up the middle allows yourself to be shot from both sides. A paintball field is like a chessboard. It’s got boundaries. So it doesn’t mean everyone can get around you, unless you go up the middle. So I tell everybody, get to the tape, work your way to the edge of the field. Work with a buddy team, so you can have some guy, someone to watch the inside, and someone to watch ahead of you, you know, you watch ahead of you, and you look both ways. But at the same time, cover the tapes and work yourself around. Most people always run into the middle. And when they run into the middle, they get shot from both angles.

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My name is Mike Peverill. I’m here at Pev’s Paintball Park in Aldie, Virginia. I’ve been playing paintball nearly 30 years. I’ve played professional paintball with numerous pro teams all over the world. This facility here was built from the ground up for paintball, kind of like a paintball Disney Land. Our website is www.pevs.com. Hopefully you can come out and visit us sometime.

One of the number one questions I get when people come into a paintball store, and they ask me about buying a paintball gun is “I want to be a sniper.” I think they just like the thrill of it, the knowing that “Hey, I’m going to go out and play war. I’m going to hide somewhere in the bushes and when someone doesn’t see me, and they’re just walking by, I’m going to snipe and hit them and eliminate them from the game.” The downside with being a paintball sniper, though, is just with any paintball gun: paintball guns, you cannot really quiet the muzzle blast because they make a loud pop from the bolt action, actually. Some guns are quieter than others. But still, you can make it look like a paintball sniper gun. At the same time, you can still play paintball sniper. The trick is: don’t shoot a whole lot of paint. Once you shoot your first round, make that shot count. And then be quiet. Because most people hearing know that noise came from a paintball gun.

But, what you’re going to see here is a lot of different options you can use to become a paintball sniper: the mounted scope or red dot, the bipod to put on the gun to stabilize it, the apex barrel which you can adjust the trajectory of the ball. So, a lot the basics here are right here to set up to be a paintball sniper. And then some of the other features are going to be on how well you hide yourself, dark clothing, hiding in spots where people can’t really see you, where you just stick the barrel out instead of the rest of your gun. But if you want to be a paintball sniper, start with the basics of the gun. And also start with the clothing that you’re going to wear. Wear dark clothing, camouflage preferably. Wear something to hide your mask. Don’t wear a flashy mask that’s going to draw attention. Try to find yourself a spot where most people won’t see you coming.

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My name is Mike Peverill. I’m here at Pev’s Paintball Park in Aldie, Virginia. I’ve been playing paintball nearly 30 years. I’ve played professional paintball with numerous pro teams all over the world. This facility here was built from the ground up for paintball, kind of like a paintball Disney Land. Our website is www.pevs.com. Hopefully you can come out and visit us sometime.

Rec Ball Guns and Speedball Guns are notably different. A lot times just by the color. I mean, Speedball Guns, typically, you’re gonna see a fancy color such as this. And some of the guns behind me that are red. Or then you’re gonna see Rec Ball Guns which are more like this, which is black, hard to see, looks more like a real gun, kinda similar to this. When you look at a gun like this, you know, this is what we consider more Rec Ball-related or scenario-related. So I’m gonna go over the differences between the two in several ones. The basic Rec Ball Gun is the same thing with the rental gun. Like a Tippman Model 98, for example. It’s basic, it’s simple, durable. But it’s kinda got that look to it that you’re kinda playing, like, war, in military, you know? But at the same time, it’s rugged, and it’s not gonna break down on you. And this is a Speedball Gun. High-end clips Geo. It’s a high-end gun, very flashy. Electronic triggers, electronic panel, a control panel that tells what it’s gonna do. It’s fast. It’s a high-end race car. Like, if you’re gonna go win the Nascar event, okay? As opposed to something like this. This is just a regular car without all the bells and whistles. But this is durable. This is durable too, but this one is typically gonna have more problems with it. Because when you push a gun, a paintball gun, to its limit, you basically have a problem where it’s gonna be finicky, a little bit. It’s gonna have things that are gonna go wrong with it. But, but a gun like this, you’re gonna play in a speedball tournament, or a national championships anywhere, you want a gun like this. Super fast, the electronic trigger allows it to shoot, you know, anywhere up from 15 balls a second and up. As opposed to a gun like this, where you’re shooting, you know, less than 10 balls a second. It’s a little slower, it’s clunkier, but at the same time, it’s durable. When I play for fun out here at the park, I’ll use this, because it’s durable. But at the same time, reliable, it makes it happen. Now, if I go play Scenario, a lot of times, you get out there with scenario version of Rec Ball, where guys are gonna have a gun like this. Where it has all these after-market effects on it to make it look kinda ominous. Kinda looks like you’re playing war, you’re playing Rambo. And then, you know, and as you see, it all depends what your taste is. If your playing style is Rec Ball, then you’re gonna determine, “Do I want Rec Ball, regular Rec Ball? Or do I want Rec Ball scenario paintball, where I want it to look more realistic?” And, and then if I’m gonna play Speedball, when I play in the national tournament, I still use a gun like this. ‘Cause I rely on its dependability and rate of fire. I need this gun to shoot like darts, ball after ball, as fast as I possibly can.

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My name is Mike Peverill. I’m here at Pev’s Paintball Park in Aldie, Virginia. I’ve been playing paintball nearly 30 years. I’ve played professional paintball with numerous pro teams all over the world. This facility here was built from the ground up for paintball, kind of like a paintball Disney Land. Our website is www.pevs.com. Hopefully you can come out and visit us sometime.

Different formats of paintball. Rec Ball and Woodsball are similar, they’re pretty much the same. We consider it, basically, Rec Ball or Speedball. Speedball is the faster paced paintball game. It’s typically on a smaller field. It’s symmetrical. it’s typically with air bunkers or some type of bunkers where everything’s built the same. So both sides are playing on a field in a symmetrical mirror. It’s a faster game, because you’re not hiding in the woods and brush and behind trees and logs. And that’s why the name, Speedball, came about. Because it was a game, when they played it in an arena, it went really really fast. It basically was like a five minute game, sometimes three minute game. Sometimes I’ve seen games go, you know, just 30 seconds. Rec Ball, Woodsball — Rec Ball is the fun type of ball. And you can’t always say Woodsball, because not everywhere has woods. So that’s why they use the term “”Rec Ball.”” Rec Ball is that, I wanna get out and have an adventure. I want the thrill of the hunt. I’m out there, I’m seeking out somebody. I’m working with a team of buddies to try to capture the flag and bring it back. And so they get out there, and they play on fields that have props. A town, a fort, caves, buildings. Woods, creeks and rivers, and brush. Anything you can climb through and be sneaky. And that’s what Rec Ball is. That’s what most people who play paintball play — Rec Ball. In our business here, most paintball that we do is Rec Ball. Speedball, we do a lot of it, but very small amounts compared to everything else.

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My name is Mike Peverill. I’m here at Pev’s Paintball Park in Aldie, Virginia. I’ve been playing paintball nearly 30 years. I’ve played professional paintball with numerous pro teams all over the world. This facility here was built from the ground up for paintball, kind of like a paintball Disney Land. Our website is www.pevs.com. Hopefully you can come out and visit us sometime.

What I have here is two types of hoppers (feeders) — those are both names you’ll hear used to refer to them as. They hold the paintballs on top of the paintball gun, each one holds roughly around 200 paintballs on average, as you see they sit on top of the paintball gun, and the paintballs will feed into the ball chamber of the gun. Now think about it, this is all done by gravity, so when you have 200 balls packed inside the hopper, and they’re all trying to fit down this same tube, not every single ball’s gonna feed as fast as the gun will fire. It relies on the gun’s back recoil, or the shaking of the gun to kind of agitate it a little bit to feed the gun. So if I’m firing the gun quickly, I may have to shake the gun a little bit to get the balls through the feed, because there’s nothing inside of it force feeding the gun.

Now on the other hand, I have an agitating loader which is battery-operated, it has a system inside, it feeds in. The reason why it’s spinning right now is because there’s no balls inside. And what happens is when there’s no balls inside, it’s gonna keep feeding, because it’s electronic. Its sensor’s telling it “Hey, feed balls.” Now if you notice, now I put balls inside of it, the motor’s stopped spinning, so it knows that there’s balls inside of it, but I’m not firing the gun, so there’s no reason for it to kick on. However, when I start firing the gun, the agitator will kick on because the sensor will feel I need to push balls into the gun, it’ll help it so it keeps up with the rate of fire. So, now what we have here is the feeder on top of the gun, and you’re in a firefight, and you’re feeding, this thing is not gonna let me get stuck, where my balls aren’t feeding quick enough down into there.

However if I’m using this agitating loader, my problem is I’m gonna have to shake and hope. And imagine, that one time that I have to shake, someone else could have shot me, and I missed my shot. So that’s why it’s important. I tell everybody, what you should always put with any paintball gun is an agitating feeder. Stay away from gravity-fed loaders — even with a paintball gun like this, a basic gun, I tell people, “Use one of these.” High-end gun, you’ll have to use one of these, low-end gun, I highly recommend it.

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My name is Mike Peverill. I’m here at Pev’s Paintball Park in Aldie, Virginia. I’ve been playing paintball nearly 30 years. I’ve played professional paintball with numerous pro teams all over the world. This facility here was built from the ground up for paintball, kind of like a paintball Disney Land. Our website is www.pevs.com. Hopefully you can come out and visit us sometime.

I get asked all the time how to make my own paintball grenades, and I try to tell people it’s really not worth trying to make your own paintball grenade.You’re better off just paying $6 and buying one, or $5, depending on what quality you get. What happens is you pull the wrapper off, and once you throw it, it hits the ground, the rubber band falls off, and this thing will start spinning. The pressure behind the tube is like a water balloon, but instead of exploding out, because it’s a harder material, it just shoots it out the end, as the grenade spins the tube spins, that’s how you get spray.

Well, you’d have to make your own paint formula, which is basically taking some food coloring or dye, some water, something starchy to kind of make it thick, but really what happens now is just a matter of pressurizing this. You can’t do it with water balloons, because water balloons will burst all the time when you’re walking with it. It’s just too hard. You can if you walk fragile-y with it, but it’s not the best experience. I tell people all the time, by the time you order the cervical tubing and the stuff to make the paintball grenade, you could have already played, bought the grenade for $5 or $6, and had a good time and not even worried about it.

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My name is Mike Peverill. I’m here at Pev’s Paintball Park in Aldie, Virginia. I’ve been playing paintball nearly 30 years. I’ve played professional paintball with numerous pro teams all over the world. This facility here was built from the ground up for paintball, kind of like a paintball Disney Land. Our website is www.pevs.com. Hopefully you can come out and visit us sometime.

This is the Tippmann model 98 paintball marker, a basic paintball marker but the workhorse in the paintball industry. It is easy to use and simple. It is just like any paintball gun, they fairly simple to use, unless you start using electronic paintball guns because you are going to have to learn the code, the buttons to press, the combination to activate the gun what firing mode. But this gun we don`t have that, it`s the basic get out and play paintball, you have your barrel, you have your hopper which is were you store your paint, it`s the feeder. The you have your air system, take like for example Ninja air compressed air system, and you screw it onto the gun. Now you hear the chamber, it filled up with air which means that it`s ready to go. So now the paintball gun is considered ready to fire. Now what we do to be able to fire the paintball gun, there is a cocking nob on one side which depends on what paintball gun it is. You just pull it back, press the safety button in so it’s on fire, and pull the trigger. It’s ready to go. Now safety wise, every time we do use a loaded gun, always use a barrel cover, always. Every where you go it’s a barrel blocking device, spare cover, barrel condom – whatever you wanna call them. People have numerous names for them, but it’s a safety device, so if you accidentally pull the trigger, the ball gets caught inside the barrel condom in here and stops it from hitting anybody else. It’s a safety device, always use a barrel condom on the gun. When you are done firing your gun, you wanna put the barrel condom on, and clear the chamber, hold the cocking nob and slightly let it slide forward, and put it on safety. Now the gun can’t fire, so if you accidently forgot to put it on safety and you pull the trigger, nothing is going to happen because you released the cocking nob. Again, pull the cocking nob back to fire. If you are done, hold the cocking nob with your finger, pull the finger slightly and slide the cocking nob forward till you hear the click. Done, it wont fire a gun closed at the breach. Put your barrel cover on the end of the gun, and now you are in safe mode, and you are ready to go. You’re ready to play, just pour the paintballs in, close the lid, done, and once you pulled the cocking nob you are ready to fire.