Nice to meet another "baller"... I've been playing for about 8 years and spent a few years traveling the curcuit (here in the US) playing amateur tournament ball... At one time I was pretty well known (within the hobby) for building custom markers, and still do a little work from time to time...

Here is a photo of me playing at the International Amateaur Open in Pittsburg PA back in 1999... We placed 7th that year in the 5-man division out of 106 teams from all over the world... We played a German team and a Russian Team that year but did not face off against any teams from the UK...

The marker in the photo is one of my custom built jobs (notice that it is orange) which I used during that tournament then took 8th place in the custom contest the next day... The top ten markers had photos published in PB2X magazine... From the top tem markers mine was the only one that was actually used in the preceeding tournament and was one of only three that was not built by a professional gunsmith/airsmith...

I have also had a hand in designing several markers for major manufacturers as well as desinging several logos, jersys and packaging for those comanys...

I guess I could have posted this in the "what are your other hobbies" thread...

Dave Brisco