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Paintball is a funny game. I’ve been playing since 1986 and there has been many a time when I thought I was the best at what I did; I thought my team had trained harder and better than every team out there. Confidence was high, until…… It all went wrong. It’s never as easy in reality as it is in your mind or on paper. Many a favourite has fallen at the very first hurdle. But your true character manifests after these falls in how you behave and react. Going back to the drawing board over and over again gets harder and harder, but something drives us forward. Why do we do it? Because we all love the taste of victory, we all want to be the best and we all want the respect of our peers. When Team Icon, an Emortal Army squad, did everything they needed to do and still came up short at the 2009 Campaign Cup, they could have blamed the ref’s, the field, the guns, the paint, the alignment of the Planets, anything…. But they didn’t. They sent me this video as an apology. This video shows me tha...

Exhibition MMA Fights, Paintball Highlights At Mesquite Fundraiser. Mesquite, Nevada - Every day, United States military personnel face a new battle as they return home from combat zones. Addressing the desperate need to relieve the financial and emotional burdens caused by the physical and mental scars of war, Mixed Martial Arts legend Randy "The Natural" Couture created the Xtreme Couture G.I. Foundation. With a mission focused on raising money and awareness, the foundation's goal is to help these brave men and women fulfill any of their unmet needs as they return back to civilian life. "Having spent time in a uniform, it became a personal goal of mine to find a way to give back to the brave men and women of our Armed Forces for the sacrifices they make defending our freedoms. The Xtreme Couture G.I. Foundation was born out of that desire." Couture explained. Tapping into his network of current and former MMA fighters, Couture is hosting a weekend fundraiser...

Will Bray sent us in a couple of pictures of his Dog sporting an Eclipse Jersey. They brought a little smile to our faces so we decided to share the smile..... If you have any cool Eclipseified Pics let us have them and we will get them up here !

I found this GREAT picture of team Disruption winning Blackpool Balls Out event a month or so ago and thought you might like to see it. Thats Stoney on the Left, TomO in the Middle and Fi$h on the right.. :-) LEDZ

All SL94 Owners who have registered their marker either by completing and returning the Warranty card provided in the manual, or by completing and submitting the online Warranty registration form here: click here to register online will AUTOMATICALLY be sent out the Zick Z2 Rammer and the Ego9/SL94 Solenoid "Plank Kit" upgrades, COMPLETELY FREE OF CHARGE, as soon as they become available. The Zick Z2 Rammer is EXACTLY the same Rammer that is included in the Zick2 Kit. The Solenoid "Plank Kit" is the drop in solution that will replace the Solenoid "Turrets" that we have actively been testing, and as such can be installed into the solenoid assembly in a matter of seconds and fitted to the marker without the need to modify the body at all. IMPORTANT NOTES:- This upgrade is ONLY valid for customers who have purchased the SL94 and consequently registered their purchased product for warranty purposes.- No upgrades will be sent out to Stores that have SL94s i...

Where can I get an EGO10 this coming weekend?? Well there are 3 events happening this weekend that will (Fingers Crossed) have EGO10’s in stock for you to see and buy. SWEDEN…….Midswedish Meltdown in Örebro is the 4th and last leg of 3 crowns cup. With over 46 teams attending in 4 different divisions it is going to be some real hard games. Sissos is going to be there showing of the new EGO10 in all colours. As well as having Eclipse Tech support there to keep you rocking…. More Info @ http://www.sissos.se/ NORWAY……. The last round (5th) of the Norwegian paintball league, and this event have 38 five man teams attending. It will take place in Horten, close to Oslo Norway on the 26th and 27th of September. Paintballnorge will be available with trade stand and Eclipse techs, showing the new Planet Eclipse Ego10. More info @ http://www.paintballnorge.no/ GREECE……… HPC Super 5.5-man speedball Event in Greece consisting of 5 Legs ( Four 1 day events in Athens Greece and one 2 day leg held in...

The UK Millennium Series Leg has now finished, the dust has settled and the winners have been crowned. A great turnout from the UK teams for once which even made a few of the Millennium board smile, which is rare. Planet Eclipse launched a couple of new products at Campaign Cup. The Eclipse EGO10 the latest and greatest EGO we have ever made… Check out www.planeteclipse.com for more info, or read below!! We also had the GEO GST Kit installed in a lot of the G EO Shooting players at Campaign Cup. This product has been in test now for a few months and was used to devastating efficiency during the whole event… The GST (Geo Soft Touch) Kit should be shipping this week from Planet HQ in the UK. Eclipse teams stepped up to the plate across the board with some great results… The Pro division (CPL) saw Eclipse teams taking both 1st and 2 nd Place in what can on be described as a ‘Classic’ Final match. SK Moscow Vs Chilli Peppers Riga. In the final race to 5 points Chilli Peppers Riga t...

As this blog is supposed to be fun as well as informative here is a little abuse of our high speed camera. We like to call this Horsing, invented by Bowen Pratt (Sandbagger and Ex Nexus Player). These cameras pile on the pounds don’t they… Damn these high speed cameras.

The Eclipse Ego10. This 6th Generation Ego is the start of a new direction for Planet Eclipse and the focus of the engineering behind the marker. For the first time since the inception of the Ego model, the Ego10’s main design brief and focus has been placed on smoothness of shot and even finer resolved paint handling. Every previous Ego has been developed with the express intent of maximizing the cycle speed of the Ego design, speeding up rammer and bolt movement and minimizing pneumatic and electronic delays wherever possible. Whist this has produced arguably the fastest under-and-over poppet paintball marker on the planet, it can equally be argued that the Ego has not been one of the smoothest shooting. Well that is all about to change. Paintball is changing. No longer is the perfect marker the one that will shoot and cycle the fastest. Today, more than ever, players want and need to be able to shoot the most fragile paint, with the smoothest shot. And this is the direction that the...

Let us know if you like this and what else you want to see in the future.... Enjoy... LEDZ

Planet Eclipse do not tend to do individual/personal sponsorships. At the end of the day this is a team sport we are involved in and that's what we support. But every now and again we show signs of weakness and buckle under the pressure (pressure = plied with alcohol). I was approcahed at the Malaga Millennium Series event this year by Kristine about rocking the Planet gear. Kristine thrusted a beer into my hands (not for the first time over the weekend) and sat me down and we chatted. Kristine is a bit of a celebraty in Norway, being a firey red haired girl playing paintball turns a lot of heads, but when that very same girl is ripping up the field in the highest division that Norway has to offer then she is not just a girl Kristine is someone that might not start off with your respect but she we soon earn it.... So it was a pleasure to get Kristine to sign on the dotted line and become a fully Planet Eclipse sponsored player. As time goes by i will be asking Kristine to be giving...

Eilidh is currently in the USA visiting the New Planet Offices.. This is an exctract from an e-mail Eilidh send me the other day.... First of all the dog ate my breakfast...like all of it(!), then later on it come to eat my lunch, so I grab my fish taco in one hand and tortillas in the other, then the dog starts eyeing up my salsa, so I grab that and balance it on my hand then the gannet-hound starts chomping through my bag (where I have left my passport!!!!) so i flip out to stop the dog and low and behold we are both showered with spicy tomato salsa. The ENTIRE room is covered!!! and it stinks!!!! Why couldn't Jacko have picked a nice red carpet and red chairs and a red table.... Welll I thought it was funny. LEDZ

The stable of Eclipse Pro Teams and Payers from around the world is a pretty deep well of knowledge and skill. As we all don't have that knowledge and are not fortunate enough to play down in Southern California on a weekly basis we wanted to give you the opportunity to see inside the minds of some of the greatest players, coaches and techs in the World. So, we want to know what it is you want to hear and see about? Do you want to know how to shoot and load like the pros, coach from the sidelines or fine tune your trigger? As long as it's Eclipse or Paintball related we can probably make it happen. So get your idea's posted up here and you never know it might happen. In the mean time we got the ball rollin and ask Thomas 'Troll' Taylor to give us a few Snake Tips and Tricks... So, check back here in a day or so and we will show you the first in the series or ETV 'Tips and Tricks' LEDZ