PaintballX3 Magazine August 2014 Issue | Page 26

26 PaintballX3’s History Preservation Project: Our goal is to collect, record and present the history of paintball in an accurate, easy to read, series of articles, e-books and complete historical website. If you would like to be part of protecting and keeping paintball’s history, please email us. Larry Alexander Ross Alexander Jerry Dobbins august 2014 Our Method: The purpose of this article was to identify the most i essence we are attempting to tell the history of the game through weighed many tangible and intangible things. Did someone introd portant aspect of the game (See Karen Barber)? Was something d one contributed to the game over a long period of time and in a v hope that you agree that each and every name on this list belongs would not be told. This is part one of our journey to protect a contribute to this project in any way (research, photos, etc.) pleas Larry Alexander The founder and owner of AKA Low Pressure, Larry contributed much in the way of low pressure marker operation knowledge and he was the engineer behind the AKA Viking and AKA Excalibur paintball markers. He was also holder of many US Patents for gas holding chambers, regulator designs and other paintball and non paintball products. Sadly Larry passed away in 2013 following a long illness. Ross Alexander and Jerry Dobbins - Ross Alexander and his company Line SI developed and manufactured the Line SI Bushmaster in ’87. The gun was the rage in paintball for twoplus years. One of the best pump paintball guns ever made, numerous events were won by teams wielding the Bushmaster in the late eighties. Jerry Dobbins, who is credited with engineering the Bushmaster later purchased Line SI and then changed company name to Indian Creek Designs where he designed and produced markers like the Promaster, BK2, Puma, Blackcat, Thundercat and more. Jerry was an early member of team Navarone as well. John Amodea In John’s 29 years in paintball he has been a field owner, a store owner, a magazine editor for some of the most successful magazines Contributors: We would also like to recognize the following people that have Elliot, Mike “Boogie” Bogolub, Tracy Jordan, Robert Sword, Will Arroyo, Bud O Donaldson, Sean Scott, Robert Cline, Ron Wells, Greg Muller, Larry Cossio, S continued work persevering the game’s print history. We would also like to th