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This blog is about team "Samurai MV" and their journey in 2012 in the domestic and international paintball scene, raising money for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust in memory of Martin Vipas. 'Samurai MV' is a tournament paintball team based in the London area since 2007. "Samurai Paintball" is a group of paintball players forming a total of 5 teams including Samurai, Samurai Rage, Samurai CPC, Samurai Topcats and Samurai MV.

We're very pleased to be supported by LiPs (www.lips-paintball.com), PaintballPictures.co.uk, Planet Eclipse (www.planeteclipse.com) GI Sportz, TANKED and Bricket Wood Training Centre (www.bricketwoodpaintball.co.uk).

Wednesday 18 January 2012

Last "training free" weekend over

First proper Samurai MV training is this coming Sunday – and of course the temperatures have dropped below “0” this week. But that is not bothering anyone, because there is so much great and fun stuff happening at the moment!!!

Coming up - Training on the 22nd January
We are expecting a new addition to the team – a coach, which I will be revealing at a later stage in the coming weeks. This will help us on areas we need to work on individually and as a team, which we all know is going to be an important factor for us in the future – even beyond the 2012 season. As usual this will be all happening at the Bricketwood Paintball Center.

Many of the boys have start the year strong with giving up smoking, stopping the fast-food and beginning some “soft exercises” to get ready for the training we will be starting in the coming weeks. Some training plans for during the week have been drawn up, schedules for training and travel plans for the first events in March are already squared away and now it comes down to us to turn the heat on.

Also as a little “surprise” for the team – we will have a guest from the Cystic Fibrosis Trust coming to meet and greet us at lunchtime to see what we are up to and bring us some materials we can use for the charity activities. This will give the team a chance to ask some questions and details on what the money we will be raising will be used for and what the current situation of the research and treatment of Cystic Fibrosis is – it will give us all a good idea of the bigger picture in what our efforts will result in. So exciting day indeed …

Sponsors/supporters update
The 15th of the January has arrived and we “unluckily” have not received any confirmation on any of the sponsorship proposals we have sent out to the companies we approached – all feedback we have received though was really encouraging and between the lines of “Thanks for the interest – your proposal looks really great and it’s a great thing you planned. Unfortunately we are focusing on xyz this year, but would look forward to hear from you end if this year again.” We found this really encouraging and who knows what a 2013/14/15/etc. might bring.

On a positive note – as already “hinted” in the last post, we have won “Tanked” as a supporter for Samurai Paintball, which we will be representing in the 2012 Jersey of all Samurai Paintball teams. I personally have been dealing with them over the last few weeks and can only say that they are a great group of guys and really know their stuff. We are finalising some last things with the jersey design and hopefully will be having an agreed and signed off jersey in production by the end of the month … so watch this space for updates. If you feel you need some awesome jersey’s and haven’t made up your mind yet – have a look on their website or drop them a mail @ www.tanked.tv



Also the new Planet Eclipse EGO’s and GEO’s have a arrived. One of our team techs has played around with some colors we exchanged and came up with some really nice combinations – have a look for yourselves. Check out the full range of their markers and available colors on www.planeteclipse.com





More after the training next week – you all stay safe and warm!!!

Laterz!

Thursday 5 January 2012

It has begun …

First off – A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Hope everyone had a good Christmas and a great New Years Eve with family, friends and loved ones. All the best for 2012 and everything you all wished for.

UPDATE OF THE LAST 4 WEEKS
Although we are still in the “off-season” period, “THE GRIND” has literally begun. We have been everything else than lazy over the last weeks and besides waiting the last 10 days to see if we get a positive response on any sponsorships we have been proposing, we are ticking off the boxes on our “To-Do” list pretty much on schedule.

The biggest news of this week is – our NEW LOGO is final and approved. So I hereby present you the new Samurai Paintball logo which we will be wearing with pride for the future, which was sorted out for us by Tanked Paintball, the newest addition to companies that are supporting us starting this season – once we have some jersey designs ready we’ll be showing you all more.

CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRUST
On the charity front we are not even one week in and are on about £ 800,- in the first half of January. This mainly is again thanks to Bricket Wood Paintball and the Christmas party that raised over £700 for us and we received this in the first week of January. Thanks again to Yorkie and his team and Bricket Wood!!! Donna, the charity coordination person for the Greater London area, which works for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust is planning on swinging by at the Training Center on the 22nd Jan to meet the boys and also sit down and talk about how they can support us in raising funds throughout the year … so we are looking forward to that as well.


SAMURAI MV 2012 TOUR  - Tournaments and dates
Last but not least – the grind begins on the 22nd January. Everyone is already really jumpy and can’t wait to get back on the field to start training for our first tournament – we are currently working on a training schedule (for the entire 50 remaining weeks of 2012 and the actual training days) which we want to have ready for the team by the 22nd to hand out. So let’s see how that goes. Our calendar looks as follows:

4th March 2012            – CPPS (UK League) / Round 1 (Staffordshire, United Kingdom)
23rd-25th March 2012  Millennium Series (EU League) / Riviera Cup (St.Tropez/Cannes, France)
22nd April 2012            – CPPS (UK League) / Round 2 (Staffordshire, United Kingdom)
25rd-27th May 2012    Millennium Series (EU League)/ European Masters (Bitburg, Germany)
17th Jun 2012               – CPPS (UK League) / Round 3 (Staffordshire, United Kingdom)
29th Jun–1st Jul 2012  Millennium Series (EU League) / London Masters (London, United Kingdom)
23rd Sept 2012              – CPPS (UK League) / Round 4 (Staffordshire, United Kingdom)
12th-14th Oct 2012      Millennium Series (EU League) / World Cup (Paris, France)
?? October 2012         PSP (USA League) / World Cup (Orlando (FL), USA) – to be confirmed


Speaking of fitness & tournaments – 2 of our 4 smokers quit smoking and this is the first week for them without a smoke!!! YOU CAN DO IT BOYS!!! WE ARE PROUD OF YOU!!!

More in a few days – talk soon!