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Hollywood (Ken Gilder)
Hollywood played his first
game of paintball at Sgt.
Yorks in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1989 and almost
immediately began shooting
photos and writing for the
various paintball magazines.
Over the year he wrote for
Ken “Hollywood Gilder
Paintcheck magazine, APG,
Paintball News, Paintball
Sports, Paintball 2Xtremes
and others. Many of the older historic paintball photos
we see today in various places on the internet were taken by Hollywood.
Al Iba
Keith Idema
Yosh Rau
Randy Kamiya
August 2014
Al Iba
Al was the founder of I & I
Sports, the largest paintball products supplier in the
world. Based in southern
California, I & I’s business
was done largely by mail
order, although they did also
have retail locations. Al was
also a paintball field owner
for a time and he was greatly influential in that he was
close with the ownership of
APG.
Keith Idema
The poster child for
hot-headed, egotistical, self
important out of control
behavior, Idema entered
the game as a player, then
the owner/founder of Idema Combat Systems which
made and sold a variety
of paintball vests and other products. Idema’s Puppy
Paint was made with a dog
print on each ball, something he did in honor of
his dog Sargie. Idema also
was known for his “Sargie
Awards” which he would
give out at various paintball
events. The thing Idema is
best known for in paintball
was his constant physical
threatening of players and
those in the industry, which
on more than one occasion
did become a reality.
KAPP Kids - Alex Fraige,
Yosh Rau, Brain Cole, Ryan
Greenspan, Kenny Chamberlain - Five young kids fly
across the U.S., from Canada to Pittsburgh with a few
dollars in their pockets, and
leave the field driving five
brand new Ford Mustangs;
nice. Winning the Spyder
Cup was only the start for
this group as they have become the most dominating
paintball team in history as
Dynasty.
Randy Kamiya
Randy was a member of the
first great paintball team,
the Guns of Navarone (later
shortened to “Navarone”),
but he was best known and
most influential as the editor of Action Pursuit Magazine (APG). For many years
APG was the biggest, most
published, most read magazine in paintball and that
in itself makes Randy one of
the influential people in our
game’s history.
Tom Kaye
The “arms race” that is hightech, fast-shooting paintball today was initiated by
one brilliant man who knew
there just had to be a better
way to make paintballs fly
towards their targets. After
try ing to make a paintball
gun the old fashioned way,
Tom Kaye and his compa-