Last "training free" weekend over

First proper Samurai MV training is this coming Sunday – and of course the temperatures have dropped below “0” this week. But that is not bothering anyone, because there is so much great and fun stuff happening at the moment!!!

We are expecting a new addition to the team – a coach, which I will be revealing at a later stage in the coming weeks. This will help us on areas we need to work on individually and as a team, which we all know is going to be an important factor for us in the future – even beyond the 2012 season. As usual this will be all happening at the Bricketwood Paintball Center.

Many of the boys have start the year strong with giving up smoking, stopping the fast-food and beginning some “soft exercises” to get ready for the training we will be starting in the coming weeks. Some training plans for during the week have been drawn up, schedules for training and travel plans for the first events in March are already squared away and now it comes down to us to turn the heat on.

Also as a little “surprise” for the team – we will have a guest from the Cystic Fibrosis Trust coming to meet and greet us at lunchtime to see what we are up to and bring us some materials we can use for the charity activities. This will give the team a chance to ask some questions and details on what the money we will be raising will be used for and what the current situation of the research and treatment of Cystic Fibrosis is – it will give us all a good idea of the bigger picture in what our efforts will result in. So exciting day indeed …

The 15^th of the January has arrived and we “unluckily” have not received any confirmation on any of the sponsorship proposals we have sent out to the companies we approached – all feedback we have received though was really encouraging and between the lines of “Thanks for the interest – your proposal looks really great and it’s a great thing you planned. Unfortunately we are focusing on xyz this year, but would look forward to hear from you end if this year again.” We found this really encouraging and who knows what a 2013/14/15/etc. might bring.

On a positive note – as already “hinted” in the last post, we have won “Tanked” as a supporter for Samurai Paintball, which we will be representing in the 2012 Jersey of all Samurai Paintball teams. I personally have been dealing with them over the last few weeks and can only say that they are a great group of guys and really know their stuff. We are finalising some last things with the jersey design and hopefully will be having an agreed and signed off jersey in production by the end of the month … so watch this space for updates. If you feel you need some awesome jersey’s and haven’t made up your mind yet – have a look on their website or drop them a mail @ www.tanked.tv

Also the new Planet Eclipse EGO’s and GEO’s have a arrived. One of our team techs has played around with some colors we exchanged and came up with some really nice combinations – have a look for yourselves. Check out the full range of their markers and available colors on www.planeteclipse.com

More after the training next week – you all stay safe and warm!!!

Laterz!