About the Author
The author of this manual, Guy D. Cooper, has been a player for seventeen years, a field operator for eight years, printed the first private field magazine, been a free-lance writer for the paintball magazines, organized a paintball bus tour to the Phoenix Mega Games, was lead person in formerly opening US federal lands to paintball (over turning a Forest Department ôwhite paper ruleö), has taken a work team to a foreign country and established a paintball field, built the largest research library in the history of paintball, set up the first and only paintball landbank (as of 1997), manufactured the WarriorÖ and KodiakÖ paintball guns, manufactured the ôBouncing BettyöÖ and ôLittle BettyöÖ brand paint grenades, designed and manufactured the ôBarrel BlockeröÖ which was rated as the safest barrel blocker, designed the ôPro Star Signature Seriesö 4+1 and 6+1 harnesses, oversaw the development of a very large mass merchant line of paintball products for the Army and Ai! rforce Exchange Service and has been worldwide paintball product distributor for ten years.