Shop Close Up- Axiom Pro Shop

             Axiom Sports was started in 2013 with the goal of servicing the British Columbia Paintball scene.  These folks run one of the coolest skate shop style Paintball stores I've ever been to.  Utilizing beautiful wall mount displays, clean lighting, graffiti murals and an overall boutique style shopping experience I can say without a doubt that if more Paintball stores were like Axiom Paintball would have a much cooler rep.  Enjoy!   Check out Axiom at AxiomProShop.com 

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• What is an Axiom?

from wikipediaAn axiom, is a premise or starting point of reasoning. As classically conceived, an axiom is a premise so evident as to be accepted as true without controversy. Essentially we are too legit to quit.

I named axiom after a moment in my life. I was sitting on my roof watching the sunrise for the 5^th time that week. I realized that I needed to change my life, and that only I as responsible for how good or shitty it turned out. That was my axiom.Its also a pretty dope song by rancid with an insane bass solo.

• You guys put a lot of work in to making one of the most un nerdy paintball shops I've seen, what led to this?

Years of working in the paintball industry. I just got fed up with how talk of COD, theoretical zombie takeovers and other nerdy things became the mainstays at paintball shops. When I was a kid hanging out at badlands Vancouver in the 2002-4 era, Paintball was cool. We would talk about music, social issues, parties, and paintball. It was a different kind of community back then, more 18A and less pg13. While I feel that obviously kids are essential to the sport of paintball, we at Axiom are doing everything we can to make It cool again. Paintball is hardcore, and we feel a proshop should reflect the sport it services. Since I have already ran a store in the past, setting up this one was a piece of cake!

• What would you say are some of the biggest differences in BC Paintball compared to say Cali or the NW?

I would say the numbers… we are severely lacking in participants simply due to the fact that nobody lives here. 3 million people live in BC, which is nothing compared to the paintball meccas of Cali or even the PNW.

• Your a bit of a Paintball Dinosaur, how would you say BC Paintball has changed in the past 10 years?

Dinosaur, holy crap im getting titles like that now huh? In the past 10 BC paintball has gone from being years behind our US counterparts, to being relatively equal in terms of playing abilities. While we don’t have as many pros, much like the players of Europe have gotten better over the last decade, the same is true with Canada. I’ve also seen the sport come down in cost substantially which has opened up the player market substantially.

• Where do you think Canadian Paintball as a whole is headed and what do you think it needs to thrive?

I think We are headed towards a truly national league, however there are a few things such as logistics that need to be sorted out first. Canada is very large, thus driving places is not very economically feasible, We need more people to play paintball in all its forms. We also need more Canadian teams to sack it up and travel south to play in the existing big leagues like PSP. When one team goes down south to play, it inspires the rest to organize their own tournament trips.

• Got anything big coming up that everyone should know about?

 More VPL events, Some cool custom gun builds…. Im doing some work with youth and getting involved in several causes near to my heart.