I was today years old when i realized....

[jokers]

I was today years old when i realized that Lapco stands for Los Angles Paintball COmpany. I have owned lapco products, played with their stuff and know about them for years but until today i just did not put two and two together.

[zinger565]

Did you also know KAPP is for Kick Ass Paintball Products?

[Paintslinger16]

WDP, Who Dare Play?

[MrBarraclough]

Who Dares, Plays

A riff on the SAS motto "Who Dares, Wins."

[flyweightnate]

Well, add me to the "today" list on this one

[wunderbarsafari]

Or SMART PARTS- Some Middle Aged Rapacious Technical Patent Attorneys Ruining The Sport?

[jokers]

That one i did not know but it is awesome!

[Rusty Brass]

Might be the best bacronym I've ever seen.

[Brokeass_baller]

TASO = The Action Sports Outfitters
ANS Paintball = Army-Navy Surplus and Paintball

[jokers]

That is very cool thank you so much for the information!

[bellicose]

Competing retail stores getting together to put on an event for their customers...that's awesome. That video is a great blast from the past.

[k_obeastly]

what happened to "always needs service."

[Grendel]

I was today's years old and paintball as a game was still 5 years away........>.<

[Tarsun2]

ha, i just learned a lot today.

[flyweightnate]

I like how this thread quickly went from "today I learned" to "here's something you can learn today!"

[Paintslinger16]

WGP W’orr Game Products, Bud Orr,
DYE, Dave “Youngblood” Enterprises, Dave Dehaan
JT Racing, originally a Motocross company only, started with socks, made over the border in Tijuana, TJ, inverted to JT.
Dave married into the JT family

[Brokeass_baller]

I thought John Gregory of JT had earned the nickname "Tijuana John", and inverted the initials of that. Not sure where I heard that one, though.

[Paintslinger16]

I was a motocross guy way before Paintball, this was the story from back in the day. JT and DG were huge for me.

http://pulpmx.com/2017/04/15/moto-gear-history-part-iii-jt-racing-birth-to-1989/

[Hp_lovecraft]

I knew all those except that JT was inverted. That’s cool. Who remembers wearing the early JT “bug” mask?

[Grendel]

Huge improvement over a Pursuit Mask with UVEX goggles

[FullContactUSA]

Not sure I remember that one, but I did spend half a decade wearing Spectra Protius jt masks. With the little fan in the visor.

[DocsMachine]

Technically, they were "Whippersnappers", but players wouldn't trim the zip-ties, leaving the "bug antennae" look.

Doc.

[FullContactUSA]

Hahah, a similar conversation was just had on another site explaining that the obnoxious style of HK Army is to be expected from the "Hostile Kids"

[kevin qmto]

Hahah, a similar conversation was just had on another site explaining that the obnoxious style of HK Army is to be expected from the "Hostile Kids"

Now those kids are like 40 lol.

[THE SHOOTIST]

"Line SI". The SI stood for "Skirmish Industries".