Happy New Years!

Have a safe and happy new year. Were heading to the Space Needle tonight in downtown Seattle to checkout the fireworks action. All the other Rackers are spread across the world/ country celebrating on there own terms this year. Last year we had a huge party at the Rack Manor with everyone and anyone here's a snap from last years new years adventure.

Offering our services as professional screenprinters!?

Check it guys- want to make some extra money? No its not a cool get rich quick scheme, or is it? Nay we do it, that's how we run pbrack clothing. Custom shirts are a great way to make some extra money a printed shirt from us costs around 5$ and you can easily sell a decent design for around 10-15$ a pop, that's great profits.

check it!

Greg Siewers doing it big in Australia

Take a look for Greg Siewers in this video from Derder of the Australian Masters. Greg has a big pbrack sticker on his hopper and is the one hanging the flag.

Extreme vs S.T.K. from Derder Productions on Vimeo.

Our boy Prince on what it takes to go pro nowa days

Every kids dream is to go pro. Or at least for most of us that play paintball competitively it is our ultimate goal. What is being pro? What does it take to be pro? Being in the game for about eight years, I have a good sense of what it takes to go pro. I pretty much went up through the ranks and earned the privilege to compete with the best teams in the world. Sure you can buy your way in to the pros, but that is not what most of us who play on the professional level did to make it where we are now. There is no secret to it. It is plain old simple hard work, dedication, and heart.

First, you got to put in your time. Do not expect to become pro overnight, unless you got the ten grand to blow away on a pro spot! Practice as much as you can and play against people who are better then you. You do not get anywhere beating up on noobs every weekend. You do not want to be that guy who walks around thinking they are the shit at their local field, but when they come out and spar with some real ballers they are nobody. Get on a local team and play as many local events as you can. Get as much experience under your belt that way you will be able to get noticed by other upper divisional teams to move up the ranks. Second is dedication. Being a pro paintball player you have to make a lot of sacrifices. You need to learn to how to balance your real life with paintball. Be prepared to put paintball as one of your top priorities if you plan on playing pro. At the professional level, paintball if more than just a game. We live for this shit! We grind every weekend and we miss a lot of school, and work when it comes time to compete. I work and go to school full-time and believe me, it is not easy balancing life and paintball!

If you want to play pro, you must have heart. I have seen a lot of people who had a ton of potential to become a great pro player, but they lacked heart. Some made it and fell off and some did not even get the chance. You need to have that drive in you to even stand a chance to make it to the pros. Not only does this apply to paintball, but also to anything you decide to do in life. Always give it your all and love what you do.

-Prince

New Warehouse

This is our newest location we just signed the lease for, we don't move in until January but it's pretty neato. Place to park our shuttle bus and trailer, 2 entrance doors, 1 warehouse door 2 offices and a lot of deep warehouse space with loft potential. Should be pretty cool, im thinking warehouse opening day party? Ideas of how to lay it out? I think were going to make the front office our reception office with our secretary/ interns running that with the 2nd office being Jim's.

Get at our Christmas sale

We'll as you know we always like to run specials, go hit up the website and get some great deals on product. Now on other news we just applied for our new warehouse and got accepted, signing the lease tomorrow so we're pretty excited about that. Well very excited about that, this will give us almost 2000 sq ft combined space with easy options to expand when need be. Still trying to figure out how we want to lay out the new office space and what we want to do with the new warehouse space. We're going to set up some of our mobile screen printing equipment in the warehouse along with most of our inventory and a shipping station. I think were also going to setup a cubicle for artists as they always seem to come and go. Any suggestions?

Steezy G getting down in London

Our boy Steezy G just got back from a trip to london, here's a little snap of him rocking some rack jeans and the new Van Ralen shirt with some beezy that could be his cousin ;)

Jimmy @ last PB Extravaganza + Beer

Anybody who has been to a trade show knows that they can be a bit boring at times. If you take a look at this video about 3 minutes or so in it goes to Jimmy with PBRack showing off our new line, he may have had a few to drink... you judge. Click the image to checkout the video.

Article in X3

The December issue of PBX3 just came out today, and it looks like yet again they used some of our stuff. Tommy did an article on the Vegas USPL while Jimmy took photos, check that out at paintballx3.com We also run an add in there digital and print magazine every month. Make sure to keep checking back, our blog is where you can get all the inside stories about the Rack crew.

Looks like were getting a 2nd warehouse

We'll it seems like we can't stay in one place for long for the life of us. Either way a great deal came up on a warehouse in Auburn that we can't turn down. So it looks like we'll be adding this 2nd location January if everything goes as plans. What does this mean for everybody? Lots of stuff :)

New issue of PBX3

As you know the PBRack staff does a lot for PBX3 magazine. Last month our photographer Jimmy along with the whole PBRack staff and friends setup a big photoshoot to take up 30 pages in there gift guide issue hitting stores now. We also have a PBRack ad in the magazine, but keep you eyes peeled because you'll see our product in around 20-30 pages of the mag. Power plays baby, check out paintballx3.com for more info or to checkout there monthly digital magazine that we run ad's in and usually we cover an event or 2 for them!

Staff section added

We just added a staff section to our website, click on the above image to check it out. Each staff member is going to have a little page with some info about them. We still have the whole art team to add to the staff page, that'll come at a later date.

Winning BCPPL

The PBRack crew owns at life... we decided to do a team at the last bcppl while we had a booth up and we were covering the event for pbx3 magazine... we also took 1st ... yeahhh

Almost killed Kenny

We decided to drink a few man juices and in the end we started fighting with brooms somehow Kenny got the broom thrown at him, taking off the inner lobe of his ear. Causing a big bloody mess and hospital time, stay true ken dog.

Snaps from Whistler and new snowboarders

We've added some of the Lib Tech crew to our snowboard team. We've added Jack Mccoll and Brenden Gillis, local Washington shredders. They both got picked up by Lib Tech for the local team and so did Ryan Tucker.

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Whistler Weekend

Here's a link to a little edit our boy Jimmy put together over our Whistler trip, not bad for his first edit. Expect a lot more to come for rack tv in the future! Were swamped this week printing shirts for Ambush Paintball and Paintball Gear up in Canada, we'll add pictures when were done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDfhR5C0P5w

Sponsorship

Sponsorship- a widely used word in this industry right? But what does it really mean for a sponsor and to a consumer. Everyone is looking for a free handout, but who's really willing to put in the actual work to make sponsorship worth it. We recently posted a listing on pbnation announcing that we were accepting sponsorship requests, as usual we got bombarded. It's great to weed through these because half of the people compile a request in 2-3 minutes, another 10 percent don't fill it out a request right or spell everything right for that matter! SPELLCHECK! The other 30-35 percent are teams that have played 1 or 2 events and are asking for free stuff.

That being said you have about 5-10 percent of all sponsorship emails that are even worth reading through or considering. I just recently read a post similar to this from another clothing company friend in a different industry doing band sponsorships. He made some great points, people wanting to get sponsored say they will offer "exposure" by wearing your stuff. This isn't Nascar, we've had people wear our stuff on TV and our clothing has been "exposed" to millions, and did that really generate a single sale? Who knows maybe, maybe not, most likely not. That being said if your looking to get sponsored lay it out and see if you can offer the company anything that will PROFIT them, they are in business after all. Then ask the question if you were running a company would you sponsor someone like yourself? Remember this money your giving out is your own now?

We sponsor more people then is benefiting us, but our most successful sponsorship case would have to be Greg Siewers. He was originally on the Ironmen when we picked him up, now he's on Aftermath. Greg goes out of his way to push PBRack as a brand, he offers to sell product at events and gets teams and players interested in it and has actually made us sales. He has also come up to Washington and Idaho to host PBRack clinics at minimals costs so we could make a profit. We've been so happy with Greg's performance that we promoted him to Team Manager so that he can help instill this behavior in all our athletes. Remember, sponsorships a 2 way street, it goes both ways.

Take notes kids, and since we talked about Greg check out his website at www.Gsiewers14.com

and if you think our ready to be considered for sponsorship email GregSiewers@pbrack.com

Steezy G gets the beatdown in Canada

Crazy little story about our BCPPL trip in Canada, which ended up in Steezy G getting the beat down from 6 cops. The PBRack crew decided Saturday night at any tournament is meant for clubbing so we hit the streets, with a couple of the BCPPL girls and Ronnie from Aftermath. We ended up at a club called Mirage, wasn't our first time going here, its a pretty solid place. Either way Steezy G and Ronnie end up getting kicked out, Steezy G keeps trying to get back in. Some guy ends up calling him a pussy, which lead to him getting taken to the ground by 6 people. We go to help him out and we get a foot away and realize its 6 undercover cops beating the shit out of him. Pepper sprayed and batoned Steezy made it out of Jail and we were able to laugh about it later over some McDonald's, supposedly Vancouver, Canada cops are brutal... I agree

Were heading to Whistler

The Rack Crew is heading to Whistler
next weekend right after Thanksgiving.
We'll be bringing a long a few of our
sponsored snowboarders as well as a very well known pro snowboarder. Should be a great time hopefully we don't get into as much trouble as we did last year in Whistler. We'll def be getting in the early shred session before the Olympics hit though. Keep an eye peeled on our blogspot for all the behind the scenes action of our crazy trips.

BCPPL - Brawl for it All

Bcppl always puts on awesome events, but there Brawl for it All event is always known to be there biggest. It's held in a indoor stadium, there's almost 10 big vendors and around 50, 5 and 7 man teams. This is the size of some of the smaller USPL events and its right in Surrey, British Columbia. We had an awesome time this weekend at there event, we were screen printing at the booth and we had a photo booth at the booth were everyone who bought something got there picture taken and a collage will be made for our next PBX3 Ad. Canada's always fun, things got crazy this year and Steezy G ended up getting a 6 person beat down from the cops. More pics coming.

Mag coverage/ Canada this weekend

Looks like we got some coverage from French magazine Face-full announcing our new line, cool beans!, We'll also be heading to Canada tomorrow- Sunday for the last event of the BCPPL make sure to check out the live webcast PBRack will be playing as Ambush Army in D2 we won last time so we should be solid again

Webcast- BCPPL.TV
Face-Full Article- http://face-full.com/det_latestnews.php?n=103

Were Live!

Bryce Baker kills it

Back to WA

Made it back to Washington finally, its just about time to start re-modeling the new warehouse. I think we should be up and running with all the new additions mid november.

For now hit up our board short special

Test 1 2 3 In Vegas

We'll were stuck in the airport in Vegas after a weekend of paintball craziness. The Vegas USPL was a pretty small event but that didn't mean it was small partying, solid times all around.