It’s not something I’ve had a great deal of chance to do in the last 14 months or so – since Tania and I took over TAG Paintball here in Wellington.  Sure I’ve run hundreds upon hundreds of games – seen a few thousand people through the field having fun and getting the rush you feel when you try and shoot someone with a paintball gun … but I personally had not been out on the field as a player.

I  had not realised how much I missed it.

It was a blast.  There weren’t many of us out there, but for a couple of hours we played the game the way it is suppose to be.  We stalked each other in the bush, on the speedball field, laughed, joked, gave each other shit and had good old-fashioned fun.  And I sit here with the same feeling of wondering when I’ll next get out onto the field.

I think it is something, as a field operator, that I need to do more often.  To remember why it is that I do this – to bring it back to the basics – the inner kid of running through the bush with your mates, with the adrenaline pumping – waiting for the thrill of the 10 second call to hit me again.

I can’t wait.

I am a paintball player – and this moment, right here, is my life

– Matt Marshall, Sunday Drivers

Well that appears to be working – and we’re posting some fantastic growth figures (albeit off of a base that wasn’t ‘woohoo’ material to start with.  Hell next week alone we’ve got 400 people booked in across the 7 days to come and play paintball with us at TAG.

And that’s good numbers on a New Zealand standard.

So we’ve decided to mix it up a little, and next year we will be exibiting at the Armageddon Expo in Wellington.  It should be a bit of a laugh – we’re looking forward to it a lot – and the ideas of what we can do with our stand are flowing thick and fast.

I’ll try and post up a couple of times about what we’re doing in that space – but we’ve only got around 4 months to get it finalised.  The show is April 2/4 2010 – so book sometime out and see what’s happening.

You can check out http://www.dontquityourdayjob.co.nz if you’re at all interested.

Source: NZ Stuff

And on the subject of coffee goodness – the venue of choice for those is anywhere in Wellington with “Mojo” in the name.  The guys are awesome at all the venues I’ve been to – but big shouts out to the team at Old Bank Arcade & on the waterfront.

On the subject of the waterfront the Mojo team are moving head office to shed 13.  Can’t wait for them to finish so we can whip into the store and see the factory.