Bro you need to pick a second subject and build a new channel. Your personality, raps, editing, ironic analysis, etc are multi-million subscriber material... and you're just sitting on it.
I remember the first video I watch by you Mike was your Invert Mini review, I knew that was going to be my first gun, and it wound up being it. Parents got it for me for Christmas that year, and it last me 8 years with little to no issue, it ripped! I started watching you when I was in 6th or 7th grade, and I turn 25 at the end of the month! You're definitely the biggest paintball influence I had growing up! So thank you Mike!
jay33330 can’t afford it brutha... I spent probably $100,000 doing gun reviews... Adsense maybe pays me $100 a month if I’m lucky. Markerbids was the fuel that kept the videos going. Reviewing guns is super expensive 😭
Mike Phillips - I’ll send them to you for review and pay shipping back and forth! Love your shows. I feel like you in a good space and have your passion back. Love it!
I do the same thing! I bring extra setups too, and when the younger kids with mech and spider guns come on the field to play speedball I let them use one of my extra guns and they get so excited to shoot a higher end gun their eyes just light up! Last time I played rec speedball I traded a kid my lv1 for his Tippmann 98 for a few games and he had a blast! Being nice to the younger kids that will keep coming back is the way to grow the sport. Also when I’m playing against people that aren’t as good DONT LIGHT THEM UP! And when I go to bunker them I put one ball on their backs and try to aim for packs and hoppers or the mask so they aren’t going home with 30 welts and never want to play speedball again, hopefully they eventually want to get into the tournament scene cuz it’s a blast! Keep doing what you’re doing man 🤘🏼
I do this too. I have 20 something setups, and used to keep them packaged in sets of everything for two. It does get old when spider kid dumps a pod of smashed paint in your hopper, then unscrews your barrel and leaves it some random place for the 40th time though. If I were starting over, I think I would just get 20 A5s with better barrels for the loaner guns.
at my local field legacy adventure park when I was reffing one of my coworkers was playing. I noticed a kid who needed a tippman 98 detent. (Balls slide out the barrel). My coworker grabbed his spares. Opened up his gun and everyone in that kids group 20+ kids sat around and watched him take it apart and help their buddy out. They all had questions about their friends marker and I've seen 5 of them return in the last month.
hey my local field is legacy adventure park too, havent been since last summer.... have they added more maps/improved. also is it best to come out for paintball on saturdays or sundays. Still got a lot of people coming out to play? Looking to get into it more this summer.
@@andrew1925 we have 2 new fields omen and wasteland that were made this year. We are looking to update our current fields to balance them more in the upcoming months.
@@andrew1925 also we have bunkers between wasteland and carnage with a hill in the middle so we can host bigger games. Not much of the footage has been released but we hosted living legends 12. 800v800 with it.
I agree with you wholeheartedly ! I’ve been playing for over 20 years and was formally a sponsor player for working products and I remember not hesitating to go ahead and lend out my sponsor and markers to kids who is guns were not working and I remember how their face With change from other sadness to surprised joy some of them would be hesitant to except my offer but I would just let them know that I wanted them to have fun learn to love the sport!
As someone who is just getting into the sport after not playing for years as a kid. What he is talking about is 100% true. What made me get back into it was all the pros and people who were there to help me, talk to me about guns, be honest about if their gun was trash or great, tell me where to get cheap gear, lend me gear, lend me alan wrenches, help fix my cousins gun. It made such an impact on me to see a community so willing to help out new people. Really hope more people give this sport a chance so they can run into more people like the ones i met.
Honestly it's getting cheaper, compared to when I got in over 10 years ago. Beginner to Mid level guns are miles better now and can compete with any $1500+ gun on the field.Paint is getting cheaper and better quality. It's expensive still, but definitely improving
Everything can be found for cheap given enough time and searching. Just the other day I found an Azodin blitz, 48ci Tank, electric hopper, and mask with spare lens for only $50. Ebay is your friend lol 😉👍
last week at my local field a regular player (no names) called out a less experienced guy who was having marker problems and said something like "you should have checked it before you came to the field" as the guy was walking off. yea, that's the wrong attitude if we want to maintain and grow paintball. good video. I have that same set of wrenches
@ryan48888 no the marker was mint i replaced the orange and was good to go. My field is $25 for the day with free air. Case of paint is probably gonna last you like 6 outings.
@@elbatcheller Having plug and play stuff is nice though, especially from a reliability standpoint. On the other hand, my tuner guns are still my favorites, no matter how fussy they can be. :)
How I grow the sport is I bring extra markers, entry level ones like my Rize or Gtek, and give it to the rental players and talk to their parents on how I bought them very cheap off BSTs on Facebook.
Cut the cost of paintballs by a factor of 10. Anything else is pointless. The cost of all gear is relatively small compared to the colossal cost of a year of play. Sadly, unless the manufacturing technology improves or the ingredients for paintballs become cheaper, that probably won't happen.
That's so interesting to hear. When I started in 93, paint was $80-100 per 2500 case of proball or marbalizer. That was right as pump was giving way to semi auto. Paint is so much cheaper now, but everyone wants to shoot 13 balls per second. Its the rate of fire that has made paintball so expensive. Its really interesting to think about how its all changed. And... Autococker for the win (shout out to the vets)
@@lokirip2372 Here in canada, cases can run up to 200-250 a case, cheap fields are 120 a case for mid grade garbage for a case of 2k........ so funny that over the years, the cost has gone way up. Guns when i started, 1200 for a ego, now? Lol like 2 grand.
@@Legendaryares Didn't know it was that expensive in Canada. Paintball is getting way cheaper here in the US, than it was 10-15 years ago, and this is coming from someone who lives in expensive ass California lol. Guns are better too, especially entry -mid level guns, and pretty cheap
I remember saying to them this old adage and paintball the more the merrier. Plus I would always tell when and if you like the way that marker shoes it’s a war against marker tell your mom. And I wasn’t the only one some of my teammates would do the same we really just wanted to have people have fun and who knows maybe we were farming our next competitors
Huh? My Best friend bought a brand new tipx, 2 games later it crapped out. Got it 'Fixed' at a repubale store, again crapped out that was over $400 down the drain and got him out of paintball, that does not count the 2 or 3 other guns that just crapped out as well way more money. Hell I'm out of paintball now, if paintball gear didn't break down at ridiculous rates maybe we would still be in it. Its good that your still helping others out though.
Not to be a dick, but buy a quality gun from the get go. You don't have to spend a lot of money on one either. My planet eclipse etek, which hasn't been lubed since 2009, was shooting ropes still lol. I just played with it for the hell of it and did maintenance after
Get this setup and you'll likely NEVER have another problem: Ninja HPA Tank Planet Eclipse Gmek with PALS and a PALS hopper. Good mask. Good pod pack and pods. Buy great paint and have fun.
Thanks for the suggestions but its already too late, we both just kinda dropped out of it, it was fun while it lasted, maybe it will help someone else.
I would have said take a time machine back to 2005 to grow paintball. Local stores closed due to the recession and Walmart got rid of its lame paintball section. However helping players shows good character and is the opposite of mowing down new players.
This is the same mentality that local race car drivers have. Its no fun when youre the only badass on the field/track day in day out.....you stop, you teach, you help.others grow and learn and become competitive to your level.
It's up to us veterans players to help the green horns out whenever we can because that little bit goes a long way in the hearts and minds of the new an young players because they look up to us. It's like a paintball video I saw of a veteran players sat there and took the time to help this new player no more than 10 years old fix his rental. His marker was jamming due to the CO2 tank not beingb100% tightly on.
I play paintball with a group of mostly new players with OLD Spyders that hav eseen better days, and a few JT/BrassEagles. I'm always fixing orings and various marker issues for this reason, and also to keep the players in the game, especially being in a rural area it's hard to get enough people together to have a decent game....
Mike love to watch the videos! Thank you so much, you and your videos were the reason I got excited about the sport. Keep them coming! Are you playing ICPL?!?!
It makes me really sad that paintball is dying. Like look up paintball on youtube and sort them by most recent and look at the view count. At this point I dont think paintball is ever going to grow much anymore.
kind of makes me wish i had someone just as interested in pb when i broke my autococker 5 times in the same day. if i only payed more attention to you saying " dont crank up the adjustment on the regulator so high " 😂 i could only carry so many o rings
This concept is merely how to behave as a human being. But to truly grow the sport of paintball one needs to generate measurable metrics and follow up on goals. How many times did you help another one, how significant was the help, what was your own satisfactory of the "service" as example. Give a target value and always improve on that. What is significant will shift with time and one needs to be LEAN wit the change. BTW happy to se you on the air again :)
Our Refs are very helpful at my local field. They'll help rentals or new players crono their guns and adjust the velocity. Just gotta ask if someone needs help
stick around, watch videos/ read up on how to build/ maintain and repair guns, know that the problems that face a lot of new players are O-rings breaking ( crazy easy fix), detents, not knowing how to chronograph, download manuals to markers( they are free online!) etc. First marker I would state to dive headfirst into learning how to tech? : Mechanical Autocockers. They are the mechanically most complex markers but are not hard to learn how to tune, time and tech. Once you have that down? you have the "hardest" part out of the way and everything else is very easy. *Autocockers are not hard to learn, but they are mechanically complex.* Once you learn that? working on Axes/Minis, ANY spool valve marker, Automags, Tippmanns becomes absurdly easy.
yoitsgunattack There are a few ways but honestly, the only way you'll learn is by doing. It takes time to build the knowledge and skills but every moment you spend is completely worth while! It depends on where you live, how many paintball resources you have, etc.
jay33330 rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F143252451782 If you’re speaking of the dust white and polished pink one then no this is not it but here’s an Alias
Of course not but we are American and he speaking from his personal point of view and I'm sure that nobody will mix them up as he said the first ones were metric Allen keys 😊
Mike - quitting paintball since 2008. Keep proving them wrong man!
Bro you need to pick a second subject and build a new channel. Your personality, raps, editing, ironic analysis, etc are multi-million subscriber material... and you're just sitting on it.
Glad to see you posting mike!!!! I used to watch your videos all the time.
I remember the first video I watch by you Mike was your Invert Mini review, I knew that was going to be my first gun, and it wound up being it. Parents got it for me for Christmas that year, and it last me 8 years with little to no issue, it ripped!
I started watching you when I was in 6th or 7th grade, and I turn 25 at the end of the month! You're definitely the biggest paintball influence I had growing up! So thank you Mike!
Very similar story man mike = best paintball content I am always watching old vids lol
Mike needs to continue to make videos. Kinda getting use to seeing Mike back on CZcams. Start doing reviews on guns again.
I like these random PSA’s better.
Dillan M I like it these too but miss the full review of high end markers
jay33330 can’t afford it brutha... I spent probably $100,000 doing gun reviews... Adsense maybe pays me $100 a month if I’m lucky. Markerbids was the fuel that kept the videos going. Reviewing guns is super expensive 😭
Mike Phillips - I’ll send them to you for review and pay shipping back and forth! Love your shows. I feel like you in a good space and have your passion back. Love it!
I do the same thing! I bring extra setups too, and when the younger kids with mech and spider guns come on the field to play speedball I let them use one of my extra guns and they get so excited to shoot a higher end gun their eyes just light up! Last time I played rec speedball I traded a kid my lv1 for his Tippmann 98 for a few games and he had a blast! Being nice to the younger kids that will keep coming back is the way to grow the sport. Also when I’m playing against people that aren’t as good DONT LIGHT THEM UP! And when I go to bunker them I put one ball on their backs and try to aim for packs and hoppers or the mask so they aren’t going home with 30 welts and never want to play speedball again, hopefully they eventually want to get into the tournament scene cuz it’s a blast! Keep doing what you’re doing man 🤘🏼
I do this too. I have 20 something setups, and used to keep them packaged in sets of everything for two. It does get old when spider kid dumps a pod of smashed paint in your hopper, then unscrews your barrel and leaves it some random place for the 40th time though. If I were starting over, I think I would just get 20 A5s with better barrels for the loaner guns.
The best feeling is letting a new player use one of your back up high end markers. They love it!
at my local field legacy adventure park when I was reffing one of my coworkers was playing. I noticed a kid who needed a tippman 98 detent. (Balls slide out the barrel). My coworker grabbed his spares. Opened up his gun and everyone in that kids group 20+ kids sat around and watched him take it apart and help their buddy out. They all had questions about their friends marker and I've seen 5 of them return in the last month.
Parker Jeans love it. detents are super cheap and I bought extras just for this reason
hey my local field is legacy adventure park too, havent been since last summer.... have they added more maps/improved. also is it best to come out for paintball on saturdays or sundays. Still got a lot of people coming out to play? Looking to get into it more this summer.
@@andrew1925 we have 2 new fields omen and wasteland that were made this year. We are looking to update our current fields to balance them more in the upcoming months.
@@andrew1925 also we have bunkers between wasteland and carnage with a hill in the middle so we can host bigger games. Not much of the footage has been released but we hosted living legends 12. 800v800 with it.
@@parkerjeans5777 aha yes ive seen gameplay of ll12 looked like fun. What day would you recommend for the most people there sundays or saturdays?
I agree with you wholeheartedly ! I’ve been playing for over 20 years and was formally a sponsor player for working products and I remember not hesitating to go ahead and lend out my sponsor and markers to kids who is guns were not working and I remember how their face With change from other sadness to surprised joy some of them would be hesitant to except my offer but I would just let them know that I wanted them to have fun learn to love the sport!
THANK YOU for the Azodin shout-out, underappreciated company.
Love everything you said mike! Thanks for the new videos
As someone who is just getting into the sport after not playing for years as a kid. What he is talking about is 100% true. What made me get back into it was all the pros and people who were there to help me, talk to me about guns, be honest about if their gun was trash or great, tell me where to get cheap gear, lend me gear, lend me alan wrenches, help fix my cousins gun. It made such an impact on me to see a community so willing to help out new people. Really hope more people give this sport a chance so they can run into more people like the ones i met.
Nice sentiments. Wish the sport wasn't so unaffordable, I woulda played every damn day. Thanks for keeping it alive.
Honestly it's getting cheaper, compared to when I got in over 10 years ago. Beginner to Mid level guns are miles better now and can compete with any $1500+ gun on the field.Paint is getting cheaper and better quality. It's expensive still, but definitely improving
Everything can be found for cheap given enough time and searching. Just the other day I found an Azodin blitz, 48ci Tank, electric hopper, and mask with spare lens for only $50. Ebay is your friend lol 😉👍
last week at my local field a regular player (no names) called out a less experienced guy who was having marker problems and said something like "you should have checked it before you came to the field" as the guy was walking off.
yea, that's the wrong attitude if we want to maintain and grow paintball. good video. I have that same set of wrenches
Thank you for coming back
i think the problem is paint is too expensive.
Pump play is cheap and ton of fun.
@ryan48888 what is expensive to you? I picked up empire sniper pump on ebay for a 180 shipped to my door.
@ryan48888 no the marker was mint i replaced the orange and was good to go. My field is $25 for the day with free air. Case of paint is probably gonna last you like 6 outings.
@ryan48888 o rings
Agreed Mike! I’ve been watching you for 10 plus years now, miss the videos.
You're goddam right!
I see the art of technicianship and tuning die at the field I play at.
its already died most places i think
I get confused looks when I bring up dwell, input pressures and LPR's. I miss nerding out with other tweakers and the quest to perfect the shot.
Too much plug and play
@@elbatcheller Having plug and play stuff is nice though, especially from a reliability standpoint. On the other hand, my tuner guns are still my favorites, no matter how fussy they can be. :)
Thank you so very much. Watching your videos over the years has really helped me. Cheers..
How I grow the sport is I bring extra markers, entry level ones like my Rize or Gtek, and give it to the rental players and talk to their parents on how I bought them very cheap off BSTs on Facebook.
Perfect! Also love the dragon!
Cut the cost of paintballs by a factor of 10. Anything else is pointless. The cost of all gear is relatively small compared to the colossal cost of a year of play. Sadly, unless the manufacturing technology improves or the ingredients for paintballs become cheaper, that probably won't happen.
That's so interesting to hear. When I started in 93, paint was $80-100 per 2500 case of proball or marbalizer. That was right as pump was giving way to semi auto. Paint is so much cheaper now, but everyone wants to shoot 13 balls per second. Its the rate of fire that has made paintball so expensive. Its really interesting to think about how its all changed. And... Autococker for the win (shout out to the vets)
@@lokirip2372 Here in canada, cases can run up to 200-250 a case, cheap fields are 120 a case for mid grade garbage for a case of 2k........ so funny that over the years, the cost has gone way up. Guns when i started, 1200 for a ego, now? Lol like 2 grand.
@@Legendaryares you guys have it rough, mid grade case of 2k is $45 in the U.S. We should start smuggling paint to you all!
@@Legendaryares Didn't know it was that expensive in Canada. Paintball is getting way cheaper here in the US, than it was 10-15 years ago, and this is coming from someone who lives in expensive ass California lol. Guns are better too, especially entry -mid level guns, and pretty cheap
I usually keep a few junky barrel socks that i may have found in lost in found to give out to players.
*damn was really hoping i could save money on paint and grow it*
Glad to see your making videos again.
I agree. I was the "go to" guy at my local paintball field.
I fixed a guys axe last Saturday (broken ball / mucky everything) and now he knows how to breakdown his gun cause I made him watch lol.
Keep them coming brotha
I remember saying to them this old adage and paintball the more the merrier. Plus I would always tell when and if you like the way that marker shoes it’s a war against marker tell your mom. And I wasn’t the only one some of my teammates would do the same we really just wanted to have people have fun and who knows maybe we were farming our next competitors
I 100% agree and I like the dragon I just built the exact same marker from new old dirtyworks stock
Very well said Mike! 👍
Huh? My Best friend bought a brand new tipx, 2 games later it crapped out. Got it 'Fixed' at a repubale store, again crapped out that was over $400 down the drain and got him out of paintball, that does not count the 2 or 3 other guns that just crapped out as well way more money. Hell I'm out of paintball now, if paintball gear didn't break down at ridiculous rates maybe we would still be in it. Its good that your still helping others out though.
Not to be a dick, but buy a quality gun from the get go. You don't have to spend a lot of money on one either. My planet eclipse etek, which hasn't been lubed since 2009, was shooting ropes still lol. I just played with it for the hell of it and did maintenance after
Get this setup and you'll likely NEVER have another problem:
Ninja HPA Tank
Planet Eclipse Gmek with PALS and a PALS hopper.
Good mask.
Good pod pack and pods.
Buy great paint and have fun.
Thanks for the suggestions but its already too late, we both just kinda dropped out of it, it was fun while it lasted, maybe it will help someone else.
I thought you were going to tell us how to make paintballs larger for your bore size🤦🏼♂️
I feel like a moron
Pls come back..
I would have said take a time machine back to 2005 to grow paintball. Local stores closed due to the recession and Walmart got rid of its lame paintball section. However helping players shows good character and is the opposite of mowing down new players.
Love to see your vids again. Your videos got me in to playing paintball ;)
This is the same mentality that local race car drivers have. Its no fun when youre the only badass on the field/track day in day out.....you stop, you teach, you help.others grow and learn and become competitive to your level.
Glad to see you creating content again used to stay up to date on all your techpb videos.
THIS is how you grow a sport. Help the ones starting out.
I seriously thought he was going to grow paintballs in the plastic bags from the thumbnail for some reason.
sir capitano ahhh imagine if we could grow it like weed... that would be amazing 😈
It's up to us veterans players to help the green horns out whenever we can because that little bit goes a long way in the hearts and minds of the new an young players because they look up to us.
It's like a paintball video I saw of a veteran players sat there and took the time to help this new player no more than 10 years old fix his rental. His marker was jamming due to the CO2 tank not beingb100% tightly on.
Hell yeah mike is posting again
Awesome! Well said man.
Love your videos bro keep them coming
Glad to see you back, Mike!
Videos like this will grow paintball. Another great video
Thank you for coming back to us Mike!
Glad I've been doing something right then, thanks for all the inspiration Mike.
💪💪well said man... and also who the hell dislikes a video like this ?
I play paintball with a group of mostly new players with OLD Spyders that hav eseen better days, and a few JT/BrassEagles. I'm always fixing orings and various marker issues for this reason, and also to keep the players in the game, especially being in a rural area it's hard to get enough people together to have a decent game....
Keep it up Mike!
We need more of your videos
This is amazing
amen brother 🙏
helping others because orings cost less than dollar, make a kids day.
Mike love to watch the videos! Thank you so much, you and your videos were the reason I got excited about the sport. Keep them coming! Are you playing ICPL?!?!
Awesome bro that's good shit nice advice to help the community!! 💯
It makes me really sad that paintball is dying. Like look up paintball on youtube and sort them by most recent and look at the view count. At this point I dont think paintball is ever going to grow much anymore.
Preach brother
Love the new vids mike keep um comeing
kind of makes me wish i had someone just as interested in pb when i broke my autococker 5 times in the same day. if i only payed more attention to you saying " dont crank up the adjustment on the regulator so high " 😂 i could only carry so many o rings
Just wondering, that o-ring monkey kit would have common o-rings for all types of markers? Would be useful to get.
yea, it just has an assortment of super common orings. I got it about 5 years ago, I've fixed dozens of guns with it.
Misleading title, came here to learn how to grow paintballs because they expensive as fuck.
sorry about that, I edited the title to "how to grow paintballs" so it's not as misleading
Hell yeah mike your so right!!
Amen!
I agree 100%.. I try those things too
Definitely make professional paintball accessible to the public FOR FREE.
This concept is merely how to behave as a human being. But to truly grow the sport of paintball one needs to generate measurable metrics and follow up on goals. How many times did you help another one, how significant was the help, what was your own satisfactory of the "service" as example. Give a target value and always improve on that. What is significant will shift with time and one needs to be LEAN wit the change. BTW happy to se you on the air again :)
Our Refs are very helpful at my local field. They'll help rentals or new players crono their guns and adjust the velocity. Just gotta ask if someone needs help
Also letting people try out your marker even if its just some shots at a tree
How do you get your macroline facing backwards like that? My dark timmy's torpedo reg just wont twist that far to do that.
JJvH fat oring between the reg and the LPR block helps it all line up. Or just leave it loose. When you gas it up it will become firm
thanks man!
Nothing but truth
This is what it's about.
I only use my planet eclipse keys
how do i learn to fix guns if im that dude...
stick around, watch videos/ read up on how to build/ maintain and repair guns, know that the problems that face a lot of new players are O-rings breaking ( crazy easy fix), detents, not knowing how to chronograph, download manuals to markers( they are free online!) etc.
First marker I would state to dive headfirst into learning how to tech? : Mechanical Autocockers. They are the mechanically most complex markers but are not hard to learn how to tune, time and tech. Once you have that down? you have the "hardest" part out of the way and everything else is very easy.
*Autocockers are not hard to learn, but they are mechanically complex.* Once you learn that? working on Axes/Minis, ANY spool valve marker, Automags, Tippmanns becomes absurdly easy.
Honestly just watch some of Mike's old videos. They're great!! Reading gun manuals, which you can find most online, helps a lot too.
yoitsgunattack
There are a few ways but honestly, the only way you'll learn is by doing.
It takes time to build the knowledge and skills but every moment you spend is completely worth while!
It depends on where you live, how many paintball resources you have, etc.
Also have any guns you want to sell? Still have a rendition alias been waiting on one of those to pop up for years!
jay33330 you can find some on eBay
Rendition Alias? That was a marker Mike had designed for a team he played with a long time ago. If you saw one send me the link.
jay33330 rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F143252451782
If you’re speaking of the dust white and polished pink one then no this is not it but here’s an Alias
dissapointingly though the oringmonkey website is long gone, otherwise I'd have ordered one of thier master kits allready lol
Is that a Timmy?
yea Dragon Alias, just got it
Truth!!!
Magfed is only growing
Lol paintball is getting bigger with NXL
Yes
Or teammates.
inch is NOT standard in the rest of the world..
Of course not but we are American and he speaking from his personal point of view and I'm sure that nobody will mix them up as he said the first ones were metric Allen keys 😊
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