I AM A PAINTBALL PLAYER

Final Project for my field production class.

Matty Marshall's Speech:

It happens on a random Monday, coming back from an event or late on a Sunday night, right before you get on the plane and are about to be frisked for the third time. You're driving, you're flying, you're sitting in an airport seat with boys from the team. You're drinking stale coffee trying to stay awake. You're explaning the fat welt on the side of your neck to a confused stranger or a best friend. You're coming back to the other life...The one without paintball where noone understands why you do it. You're tired, you're working off little sleep. The question creeps up, and you try to ignore it. "Why do I do this?" Why the travel, the losses, the missed work, missed school, hours of practice, and the complaining girlfriend, because the lore of living a paintball life is just to potent, and the products of the road, the travel are memories forever in trips in strange lands with stranger people. In tournaments it feels like for once, you actually get to live as loud as you want...It's worth the sacrifices. It's worth all the bullsh*t, because if you work hard enough, a Sunday will roll around and you'll be in the huddle...screaming...with your hand in 1 among 10. Playing for the world title, and suddenly, all those clichés you've ever heard make sense.......and you are defined. You say it to yourself, and it means everything. "I am a paintball player, and this moment right here, is my life."

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[mike gomez]

WHAT SONG ITS IT?

[JohnXtwo]

Taking Back Sunday - Set Phasers To Stun

[Keelan Abbott]

What kind of gun do you have

[JohnXtwo]

Black NXT Shocker with a Russian Legion board...

I've had it for a solid 4 years, don't play much anymore though :(

[jheude92]

could i have a copy of the lines you said? i want to translate it to Chinese people people over here in Taiwan can understand, too :D

[JohnXtwo]

yes i'll put it in the description, it is not me speaking, it's a speech from Matty Marshall off of an older paintball film called "Sunday Drivers"

[NightRaider93]

Was that an MSXL shirt at 3:58?



[eyePaintball]

why dont you play much?

[Hunknk13]

Pauntball is badass

[TrashBoat25]

TBS! And paintball

Yes!

[trillistjay5]

Great video. Good job. Looking forward to another. If there will be one.

[FOFBLACKOPSTEAM]

Wow dude badass video. It's so true too. Thank you man i"m gonna share this video with all me friends.