ClockworkMiller
02-23-2002, 04:25 PM
Today, my team made the very large investment of a full day, full on practice. I know it doesnt sound like much, but it was our first, and we were all very pumped. We purchased air and field passes, along with paint the day before hand, so we could just get straight to playing with little hastle. That turned out not to be the case.
When we got there, there seemed to be a large gathering of recball players, well, not large, maybe 50 to 60 overall. It was also a hot day, and with little shade provided, it would be very dehydrating as well. One of our players asked if we could use the hyperball field to run drills. They man asked refered us to the large man in the Dye hat. He was of course too busy, so we waited. We joined the open game, and played a few annoying rounds. During these rounds, we discovered some very disturbing features of Sudden Impact.
1. No arm bands identifying paid players. Basically this isnt so much a problem as an annoyance, because there is no way to know if someone has paid or not, for All Day Air or Field Fees.
2. No chronographing. They do have a fireing range, and a single chronograph, but that doesnt mean they use it. My team of course made sure that we were all shooting around the "recomended" 280fps. But this wasnt required. In fact, it was never brought up.
-these last two are in violation of either their insurance policy (basically if you didnt pay, you didnt sign a waiver, which means 100% liability on the part of Sudden Impact) or Arizona State Law, which labels any paintball gun shooting consistantly over 320fps a lethal weapon (no, im not kidding), which shooting in public is defined as a felony, again, Sudden Impact would also be held liable for this.
3. The refs dont care. Unless you get gogged, they dont pull you out. They just make sure no one is beating someone else with a marker. They also never paint checked. I asked a ref to paint check this player about 4 times, and he ignored me while I watched several shots break on his legs and arms. This is just unprofessional.
That alone discuraged me from returning to the field, but I would stay for the rest of the day, just to play it out. When we had a lunch break (about 6 games into the day, around noon), I went over to the shack they call an office, to ask if we could use an open field (as only one group was playing, all but one field would be open at once) to run drills. He said no. I asked, probably annoyingly as I tend to, why. I was shocked by his response. "Because I said so". Nothing I said would ever warrant such a response, and furthermore, I was appaled that he would treat any customer that way. I then asked "excuse me" politely, not to try and irk him further. He then clarrified that in order to use any field, a ref must be present, even for practices. And in order to do so, you would need a private group. Which would require a minimum deposit of 350 dollars. Just to put that into persepctive, this run down, dirt ***, ****ty field was asking for a 350 dollar deposit, while SC Village (yes, THE SC Village) only asks for a 250 dollar deposit. This was outrageous. So I laughed at him slightly, and walked back to where my team was cleaning their gear. After a discussion that lasted no more than a minute, we packed up our gear and left. Next week we will be practicing in Maricopa (about an hour and a half a way in Phoenix). Just though I should share this with you all.
Lloyd
When we got there, there seemed to be a large gathering of recball players, well, not large, maybe 50 to 60 overall. It was also a hot day, and with little shade provided, it would be very dehydrating as well. One of our players asked if we could use the hyperball field to run drills. They man asked refered us to the large man in the Dye hat. He was of course too busy, so we waited. We joined the open game, and played a few annoying rounds. During these rounds, we discovered some very disturbing features of Sudden Impact.
1. No arm bands identifying paid players. Basically this isnt so much a problem as an annoyance, because there is no way to know if someone has paid or not, for All Day Air or Field Fees.
2. No chronographing. They do have a fireing range, and a single chronograph, but that doesnt mean they use it. My team of course made sure that we were all shooting around the "recomended" 280fps. But this wasnt required. In fact, it was never brought up.
-these last two are in violation of either their insurance policy (basically if you didnt pay, you didnt sign a waiver, which means 100% liability on the part of Sudden Impact) or Arizona State Law, which labels any paintball gun shooting consistantly over 320fps a lethal weapon (no, im not kidding), which shooting in public is defined as a felony, again, Sudden Impact would also be held liable for this.
3. The refs dont care. Unless you get gogged, they dont pull you out. They just make sure no one is beating someone else with a marker. They also never paint checked. I asked a ref to paint check this player about 4 times, and he ignored me while I watched several shots break on his legs and arms. This is just unprofessional.
That alone discuraged me from returning to the field, but I would stay for the rest of the day, just to play it out. When we had a lunch break (about 6 games into the day, around noon), I went over to the shack they call an office, to ask if we could use an open field (as only one group was playing, all but one field would be open at once) to run drills. He said no. I asked, probably annoyingly as I tend to, why. I was shocked by his response. "Because I said so". Nothing I said would ever warrant such a response, and furthermore, I was appaled that he would treat any customer that way. I then asked "excuse me" politely, not to try and irk him further. He then clarrified that in order to use any field, a ref must be present, even for practices. And in order to do so, you would need a private group. Which would require a minimum deposit of 350 dollars. Just to put that into persepctive, this run down, dirt ***, ****ty field was asking for a 350 dollar deposit, while SC Village (yes, THE SC Village) only asks for a 250 dollar deposit. This was outrageous. So I laughed at him slightly, and walked back to where my team was cleaning their gear. After a discussion that lasted no more than a minute, we packed up our gear and left. Next week we will be practicing in Maricopa (about an hour and a half a way in Phoenix). Just though I should share this with you all.
Lloyd