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Paintball and bodybuilding share a common interest that most people are not
aware of. If you’re reading this you
probably know that Bob Gurnsey, Hayes
Noel and Charles Gaines are the three
co-founders of the game of paintball.
They conceptualized the game together,
found the cattle marking guns, set up the
very first game ever played and recorded it for the world to see in the form of
feature articles in Sports Illustrated and
several other international magazines.
Gaines and Gurnsey then went on to start
The National Survival Game (NSG), the
first company to sell and even manufacture products for the exclusive purpose of
playing the game we now call paintball.
But six years before the original three
fired the first paint-filled ball at each
other Charles Gaines was busy writing,
directing and narrating a movie called
“Pumping Iron.” If you are not familiar
with the film, it is a documentary that
covered the relatively unknown world
(at that time) of bodybuilding, focusing on the 1975 IFBB Mr. Universe and
Mr. Olympia competitions. The film featured two unknown bodybuilders - Arnold
Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno. Pumping Iron put these two budding stars
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on the map and introduced com
bodybuilding to the world. The
credited by many as one that i
fitness craze of the 1980s, as w
huge number of commercial gy
opened after the film’s release
was a huge commercial succes
movie (at the box office) and a
which is one of the top50 best
sports books of all time.
Fitness and competitive paintb
in hand and many of today’s p
upper level team players spend
portion of their training time in
This issue features a review of
“The road Map to Ge tting Shre
by Scott Kemp of San Antonio
Spesh Robinson, a former mem
Philly Americans is gym owner
builder. Todd Hugo, former me
the All Americans, Avalanche a
is a competitive Cross Trainer.
Katherine Secor, a member of
ball team Destiny, is also a com
bodybuilder with sights set on
on the professional circuit soon
up with Kat recently and asked
questions about what it’s like t
sport athlete.