Planet Eclipse HQ Blog

Who better to ask about keeping sharp in the current climate than the player with a lifetime season pass to the MVP lounge. San Antonio XFactor's Archie Montemayor. Photo: George Fava Do you have your own personal plan for keeping yourself on point so you’re always ready? For me the off season never really exists. Most of my routine stays the same throughout the year. I play often and my mind is on the game all the time. I'm always thinking about ways I can improve myself, the team, teammates, how I can talk about things. It's just about being mindful, which is more important than ever right now. What kind of drills do you do at home? If you can. For drills at home, I make sure I am in good physical and cardio shape, and I like to have my full setup in my hands when I am home. The more my gun is in my hands the more comfortable and "at one" I am with my gun the better.  Photo: George Fava Do you have a usual core of local players who pla...

At Planet Eclipse we design and manufacture our equipment to perform at the very highest levels, but we also want our equipment to be super-reliable so that our players never need to worry about anything other than what they do on their field of play.  A by-product of this design ethos is that our equipment–paintball markers in particular–has a very long lifespan.  We have always kept a substantial stock of spare parts in our hubs, as well as at our approved service centres Worldwide, just in case.  But as we have grown and developed as a company and our project numbers have increased it was important to move the older historical spares management away from Planet Eclipse HQ to allow us to focus on design, manufacture and project management. Which is where Paintball.De come in. Paintball.De (based in Germany) operate a very efficient and impressive warehouse and as part of the Planet Eclipse family it made sense to move spares management and sales to their central...

The first event of the 2018 NXL season, the Las Vegas Open, was an event of many, many firsts. First up, the incredible Eclipse CS2 was launched just in time for our top tier teams to hit the field with the very latest and greatest piece of Eclipse game-winning equipment. It was also the PRO debut for three of our teams, Sacramento DMG, New York Xtreme and Scottsdale Elevation - and the latter... well, they were penned as the whipped boys. But they were wrong. Very, very wrong. So we contacted the three new additions to the Pro division and ask them three simple questions about their Las vegas Pro debut. We caught up with Ryan Bosch and  Auggie Orozco  who were more than happy to climb down from cloud nine and share their thoughts. 1: Hi guys. NXL Vegas was your pro debut, which is a massive step for any team. In your team’s opinion, how did Vegas go for you guys? Vegas went better than good. Obviously our dreams are to win, but going into the Vegas event the gener...

Ok, so we're gonna take the foot off the gas a little and talk about something that was a huge deal for the growth of Eclipse, but not necessarily as exciting as things that go pew pew. We're gonna go into the decision to widen our horizons and expand our business into the good ol' US of A. As always, we grabbed Ledz and asked if he could remember any of it. I guess the decision to expand and open a US Office was a massive deal right?  Yes and No. Jacko had been working for us for some time and his wife (Jane) had been offered a job working in America. This meant they had some pretty big life changing decisions to make. Jacko approached Julian and Myself (Ledz) and suggested that he moved to America and sets up a US office for us over there. The timing was probably about 6-months too early but we grasped the opportunity and went for it. I think if we had said “No thanks” we would have lost Jacko as I think he would have moved to the States anyway. Jacko had al...