Hyperball 1997 Event 1/5

...In the middle of England, in high summer, 45 professional and amateur paintball teams from East and West coast America, throughout Europe and on to the Ukraine, converge on the National Paintball Fields for the NPPS Championships. Awaiting them, the worlds first ever, specially designed and constructed Hyperball arena, with film crews, media from across the continent and WDP, whose idea it all was. Hyperball had been born- set on a bordered soccer size base pitch, sprouting futuristic permaplas defensive Hypertubes interlinked with tangerine angular Hyperpipes. From the minute sweat broke and the first two teams eyeballed each other at the stadium gate, to the end of the tournament 48 hours later, there could be no turning back. Hyperball had happened

With the kind permission of the nice people at Angel Paintball Sports
http://www.angelpaintballsports.com/SelectRegion.aspx
formerly W.D.P., here we have the promotional video filmed during the 1997 Hyperball event. This was the first of the concept events and indeed the grandpa of all the inflatable fields that followed. Welcome to a time when the choice was mag or cocker, sock hats and kneepads on the outside were as agg as it got, and a man was measured by the size of his drop and strapping his squeegee to his leg. Thanks again to APS for allowing me to post this for everyone to enjoy, have fun looking at dinosaurs or wallowing in nostalgia and remember, players play!

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• paintball
• hyperball
• APS
• DYE
• BLAST
• Kingmann
• AKA
• WDP
• WGP
• autococker
• automag
• cocker
• mag
• angel
• spyder
• shocker

[Viking445]

fucking awesome look at all those Mags and Cockers!!!  Everyone using 9v Revvys!!

*tear*

[Dyeballer610]

@AChewy2 not all for the best. its like xbox live, full of litle assholes

[DCDAZA]

Skirmish paintball Nottingham has some of the original parts of this field in their own hyperball fields it's epic

[kickbutrally]

@Dyeballer610 your a faggot kid

[TheVelocityPaintball]

8:40 that dude chucked a pod at him

[ACDCoverdose]

90s..hyperball...cockers....ma­gs..oh man :(

[scwrestler21792]

so this is the beginning of tourney play huh? nice

[AChewy2]

@Dyeballer610 haha truee

[AChewy2]

paintball has changed a lot over a short period of time..

[LousyHeroes]

I just noticed all of the crowd is wearing goggles... No netting? haha... that's awesome though.