Paintball downunder in New Zealand

[Darrin]

I am in New Zealand for a few weeks and yes I am playing paintball. I will have a few pictures next week. It is summer down here. 85 degress http://www.mnpig.com/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif

[AKA]

Glad to here you made it down there okay, but can't say glad to here its summer and your playing Paintball.:cool::D
Monday morning working outside -5, tuesday morning working out side -10, Wednesday morning working out side -13 below,:character0051: I hope you understand.:rolleyes: I feel better now, hope you have a good time./AKA

[badmoon]

bring me back a shot glass d please

[Goat]

i cant wait for those pictures its gonna be sweet to see Darrin playing paintball in the jungle in February as we are all sitting here freezing :character0080:

[Podoz1]

Lucky snow bird.

[Darrin]

Leaning a lot about paintball down here and toying around with the idea of a Splat Tag field in New Zealand. :)

[Vander]

That's a long commute for us, Darrin.. ha-ha :)

[Badger]

ROAD TRIP!!!

then...

PLANE TRIP!!!

then...

ANOTHER ROAD TRIP!!! beret:)

[Podoz1]

Darrin don't leave uss!!

[AKA]

Darrin don't leave uss!!

I'll Second That!;)/AKA

[Darrin]

It's Summer down here from Nov to March.

I think I could make both work. :)

[badmoon]

ill move for the winter! for real

[Sinner]

Darrin don't leave uss!!
i'll third that!

[AKA]

It's Summer down here from Nov to March.

I think I could make both work. :)

What Darrin and miss our winters?:character0080: Well if anybody could pull it off, it would be you. Sometimes when things present themselves you must act! Well anyway you have my support!/AKA

[badmoon]

support the world wide spread of paintball. don't hate congratulate.

[Podoz1]

But if he leaves we won't have a decent place to play.

[Bizzare87]

sounds like both fields would be running together.rotter in the southern hemisphere?are the jail cells comfy down there?O ya and I have to see if the toilet thing is for real myself.

[Darrin]

Pictures from Feb. 23

http://www.splattag.com/2008_new_zealand069.jpg

[Podoz1]

Names or connections ( how you know them) please??

[Saint]

Looks like a fun time, and cool terrain! More pics if you got them!

[Darrin]

This is the only picture I took at this game.

Second player from left (Evil Shirt) is Peter, one of my cousins fom New Zealand. I am the big fat guy to theright of him.

One in from the right is Phil, I found him on line and he set up the game. The rest of the players are friends of Phil are know him from the internet.

We played on a friend of Phil farmland. We had to cross a small river to get to the playing field.

Some of the trees here over 150-200 years old.

E-trigers are not legal in New Zealand.
Paintballs are .06 to .12 each and $9.00 it fill a C02 20oz bottle.

I paid $500 for a Tippmann A-5 with Response trigger.

I will be deepsea fishing this weekend if the weather stays good.

[LoudThunder]

Gotta love it. How many other teams can say that they have had team members play outside of their home country (Canada and Texas doesnt count):party0003:

[frycook]

:Ddoes the guy 2nd from right have his marker in his pants? i dont think that counts as a barrel plug help:)croshair:)

[Darrin]

Played again Sunday, March 2 from 1pm to 3pm.

New field - Paid $20 Entry with free C02 and $30 for 200 paintballs.

Sorry I did not get a picture.

[AKA]

I hope you did'nt have to pawn off your camera to play for two hours, shoot up 200 paintballs with your new $500 Tippy. I bet that response trigg comes in handy. You still have your Ticket home don't you?:D/AKA

[F-N-U]

i wouldn't comeback... atleast not till it starts to warm up here lol
E-trigers are not legal in New Zealand.
Paintballs are .06 to .12 each and $9.00 it fill a C02 20oz bottle

I paid $500 for a Tippmann A-5 with Response trigger.

I will be deepsea fishing this weekend if the weather stays good.
i could have told you that

why would you do that??? i could have overnighted you one for cheaper than that lol

i hate you for going deep sea fishing... i went while i was in mexico a couple years ago... its very fun but i felt kind of odd with some guy doing all the work & then going here reel in this fish... kinda felt like cheating lol

[Mustangman]

i just keep thanking God that our paintball prices are not that high.
$30 -200 = $300 - 2000 wowza:eek:

[Badger]

here's hoping Darrin doesn't get any fancy ideas... beret:)

[badmoon]

my dad said he might be willing to give me some money to move to new zeland for the winter so he has an excuse to visit. lol no joke. so i am avalible to work at splat tag nz

[Darrin]

Flew up to Taupo New Zealand for a few days to visit my uncle Wayne and family. Trying to get in to a game Sunday, we will see. :)

[Podoz1]

Good luke with the game (if it happens)

[Jono]

Pictures from Feb. 23

http://www.splattag.com/2008_new_zealand069.jpg

were are the hobbits deshelmet:)

[Podoz1]

I think they are in Ireland. But i'm not sure I haven't watch the behind the scenes stuff in like a year.

[Darrin]

Yes that movie was film in New Zealand. :)

[Darrin]

I will be back next week and getting ready for the start of the 2008 season at Splat Tag, Inc.

This will be the biggest year ever for Splat Tag with over 100 events!

Hope all the snow is melted when I get back. :)

http://www.darrinjohnson.com/images/nz/2008_new_zealand%20109.jpg

[Podoz1]

I know that most of the film was done in NZ but I was talking about the Hobbiton landscape I believe that was done in Ireland.

[Darrin]

March 16, 2008 I played a 3 different locations. One place I paid $400 for a case of paintballs.

My last Sunday in New Zealand I made the most of it.

Started the day going to Top Gun paintball at 9:30am. First time playing there. 60 players, over half were first time players using rental guns. I players with 3 family members and had a great time. Nice set up with small scenarios.
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/AssaultKorps/Darrin%20Big%20Sunday/2008_0316photosgroup0172.jpg


1pm we drove about a mile way to Ultimate Game and met up with 3 more of my family for a total of 6 plus me. Entry was $20 with a rental gun and 50 paintballs. Extra Paint was $10 per 50 paintablls, I bought a case for all of us at $400.00 for all of us to split. At check-in a Ref/tournament player that thinks his is the best thing ever (you know the type) came to our group and said he wanted to shoot the American looking at me. As he left he said he love to shoot people more then once and even a 100 times.

Once we all gear up we went out side to a speedball course made out of tiers. That same player was playing with a group of all first time players from Japan all with rental guns. He was using a Timmy and had a player out of the game coaching him to light up all these new players (very sad)

Our group went off and played in the woods for a few games. Then a few regulars came over and join in. 2 on each regulars join each teams. The ref/tournament player and his friend joined the other team and has only out to get me :) Well I Made sure he found me, twice I shot he :) I never got hit at the Ultimate Game :)

The picture below shows the two players that played on my team (not the ref/tournament player) Great guys. And 6 of my family and I.
http://www.darrinjohnson.com/images/nz/2008_new_zealand%20268.jpg

3:15pm my cousin Peter and I went out to a private land game (the same game I first played when I got there)

Great bunch of players, all stand up players. I wish every game was with these guys and I with my family could have played but this was a bring your own everything game and they do not have guns or anything else.

http://www.darrinjohnson.com/images/nz/2008_new_zealand%20269.jpg

I will be glad to be home in a few days!!

[Bizzare87]

I thought you said e-triggers were illegal?Haha you should have known you were going to run into a speedball punk down there d...we are everywhere.

[Badger]

Am I reading that right? $400.00 for a case of paint? beret:)

[Darrin]

Yes you read that right :) And it was field paint, nothing special.

Paintballs $400

Shooting cocky player priceless!!

[Podoz1]

A good thing I'm not planning on playing in NZ. No offense Darrin but I just don't have the $$ for $400 a case.

[Darrin]

Well it's time to head back to Minnesota, my home :)

It is 8:30am here and in 12 hours I will be one the airplane home.

I have had a great time visiting my family. I don't get see them much. Over the last 34 years I have only bin around them for a total of 6 months. 6 one month trips. My New Zealand mother had 2 brothers and 5 sisters so I have a very big family over here. A few months back my Grandfather died, he was 100 years old. I hope I have his gens :) Oh ya and 20 cousins. Ages from 7 to 44 years old. A lot of them have kids now so out of the 3 million people that live in New Zealand I think half are my family :)

In total the flight home take bout 24 hours.

It's time to come home and get ready for the start of the 2008 paintball season in the US. :)

Darrin



a great trip

[Bizzare87]

we want our EZD back right meow.

[Podoz1]

When did you become a cat Bizzare??

[Bizzare87]

for me its always caturday

[Podoz1]

sure whatever

[citykid]

That fine body of men is Ghille's bunch at boundary rd. Muzz.

[citykid]

Unfortunately that fellow has the same effect on us hence we change to electro,s to play him,so you will note he spent a lot of time in the dead zone.

[Darrin]

Good job! Thanks you being on my team. Hope to see you hen I get back to New Zealand.

[*mess*Chain_gang]

i am with rotter

[Vander]

It'll be good to have you back, Darrin. :)

[Podoz1]

second that^^

[Darrin]

Snow :character0080:

I want to go back!hd:)