The four wise men (and one very hot scientist) have come to show how YOU can can become the greatest ever (keep your fingers crossed.)
By Matty Marshall, CSSloan, Dave Araki, and Pete Siegel
Photography by Michael Neveux

Professional paintball. Do you consider it in the same league as professional baseball, football, basketball, or hell, even hockey (which isn’t even in existence this year)? A lot of people do, so why is it that we continue to eat like friggin’ slobs, only play/train once or twice a week, and don’t take care of our bodies in an athletic manner?
Could you imagine what football would be like if on Super Bowl Sunday Peyton Manning dropped dead of a heart attack because he’d been eating like a Jenny Craig reject and not working out? The sport would become a joke almost overnight, so if we want people to take us seriously, it’s time that we get serious about ourselves.
That means eating right, working out 3–4 times a week, working on game skills 4–5 times a week, the whole nine yards.Since you probably have a hard time wondering why hot dogs come in packs of eight and hot dog buns come in packs of 12, we decided to do the work for you.
We enlisted the help of four specialists, each with a mastery of one of the skills necessary to turn you into the Ultimate Paintballer. First there’s Matty Marshall from Team XSV, one of the best-rounded players in the world, here to show you how the world’s best players train their paintball skills almost every day. Next is CS Sloan, our in-house nutritionist and trainer, who has drawn up a custom plan made exclusively for paintballers to optimize their workouts and eating habits to win on the field. Dave Araki, our pick as the best gun technician in paintball, gives you the rundown on the most common problems you’ll run into gear wise on the field, and what you’ll need to overcome them.Finally, master mentalist Pete Siegel gives you the Tony Robbins treatment, and will get you psychically ready to get out there and destroy. No one paintball player in the world has all the angles figured out, but after this article, you will. You can be the Ultimate Paintballer. The lesson begins.