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Sawyer plays in his first Pro Division tourney and they take the top spot

2012-01-30T10:59:00.000-08:00

Sawyer had the chance to play for Bob Long and his Assassins squad this past weekend in the Ultimate Woodsball League. Sawyer played about a third of the games.

Some of the other Assassins teammates were: Bob Long, Dave Bains, Tyler Harmon, Sonny Lopez, Shane Howe, Chris Lasoya, and LJ Schwarz.

The Assassins won the Pro Division Finals, defeating the CP Raiders whose team's roster included: Oliver Lang, Shawn Walker, Rodeny Squires, Todd Martinez, Davey Williamson, Matty Marshall just to name a few.

So Sawyer was on his first Pro Roster at 12 years old 11 days old. He first played in a Pro Division at 12 years old 11 days. And he won his first Pro Division tourney at 12 years old 12 days old.

Here are a few pics!

Waiting for Game 1 w Kimo

Ready to hop in for Game 2 in almost total darkness

Tyler Harmon and Sawyer talking strategy for a game

Break Time on Day 2 waiting for the Finals - Boys went out to play a little rec ball. Here is Sawyer with Sonny and Dave.

Lots of game planning and work before the Finals

THarm and Sawyer before the Finals

UWL Champs. 1st Place!!!

Picture(s) of the Week

2012-01-20T11:08:00.000-08:00

Some fun photos from Sawyer's birthday party playing with his brothers and a bunch of friends from school!

Picture of the Week

2012-01-13T12:02:00.000-08:00

Congrats to THarm on his move to SF EXPLICIT!!!

Sawyer Sighting

2011-12-15T13:51:00.000-08:00

http://www.catshackreports.com/2011/12/maxd-kidz-end-of-season-recap/

Picture of the Week

2011-12-15T13:47:00.000-08:00

A bunch of us got together last weekend to play some RecBall at Camp Pendleton and had a BLAST!!!

2011 Season Recap (Incl Las Vegas and The RPL to close out the season)

2011-12-06T13:21:00.000-08:00

Last but not least, thanks to our sponsors for helping make 2012 so awesome - Ninja Paintball, Planet Eclipse, HK Army and PB Fashion, Shawn Walker and Camp Pendleton Paintball Parks, Gen X Global, Tough Chrono, KM Straps, Derder Productions, Catshack Reports, PBLive, DGX, Paintball Photography and BallersCafe. And a big thanks to Rich Telford for all his guidance this season.

Drop us a line if there is something you'd like to know!

Sawyer Sighting

2011-12-01T16:08:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV0zs5i4gkw&noredirect=1

Sawyer Sez on BallersCafe

2011-12-01T16:02:00.000-08:00

http://www.ballerscafe.com/forum/showthread.php?46861-Sawyer-Sez-12.1.2011&p=480185#post480185

Picture of the Week

2011-12-01T15:59:00.000-08:00

Max'd Kidz hanging out with Bear in front of the HK ARMY bus in Las Vegas at NPPL World Championships right after HK set the team up with gear!

Sawyer Sighting

2011-11-01T15:53:00.000-07:00

If you Google NPPL First Place Trophy - goto images - Max'd kidz shows up on Page 1!!! Sweet!!!

Picture of the Week

2011-11-01T15:46:00.000-07:00

This one has been out there for a while - but never a Picture of the Week. This was from a photo shoot for the 2011 Gear Guide.

Sawyer Sighting

2011-10-16T14:34:00.001-07:00

Here is an interview on another site -

Live. Love. Paintball.

http://llpaintball.com/2011/05/sawyer-from-maxd-kidz/

New Sawyer Sez on BallersCafe.com

2011-10-16T14:29:00.000-07:00

Click the link to read the latest and greatest Sawyer Sez posted on BallersCafe.com

http://www.ballerscafe.com/forum/showthread.php?46748-Sawyer-Sez-10.15.2011-Vegas-baby!-Vegas!&p=479797#post479797

Picture of the Week

2011-10-16T14:16:00.000-07:00

Sawyer and Michael doing laning drills with Brandon at the start of practice.

NPPL Las Vegas World Championships Field Layout

2011-10-16T14:11:00.001-07:00

Max'd Kidz take 4th in D-League event #3

2011-10-16T14:09:00.000-07:00

The Kidz killed it in the prelims - #1 seed going into the playoffs - but things fell apart just a little in the semis and the 3rd/4th match. We could have won it. We should have won it. But instead we left a little disappointed and learned some more valuable lessons.

Sawyer Sightings

2011-09-20T16:16:00.000-07:00

Go check out the Planet Eclipse site - http://www.planeteclipse.com/ - and check out Sawyer and Max'd Kidz in two different videos -

1 - the Slider Short video clip

2 - the ETV Episode video clip on The RPL

Here is A TON of Max'd Kidz updates for the blog

2011-08-22T12:20:00.000-07:00

OK - We've been REALLY REALLY bad at updating the blog - it got away from us for a few weeks and then it just kept getting to be more and more to catch up on and we got further and further behind - SORRY!!!

So - we give up - we are going to do one quick catch up post here - and then try to do a better job staying current!!!

Wow - this could be a long post!!!

First - what has happened so far this season -

We are playing Division 2 in all leagues -

RPL Event #1 2nd Place

NPPL HB - Ugly, please don't make me re-live it

NPPL D League Event #1 - 2nd Place

RPL Event #2 - Again, Ugly, please don't make me re-live it
NPPL D League Event #2 - 3rd Place

RPL Event #3 - 1st Place

We continue to work with Rich Telford this season. What he has taught us has simply been amazing!

We have continued to get a large amount of press and exposure. Here is a list of some of it that we can remember:
Action Pursuit Games two page spread in March 2011 Issue
Cover story in Paintball Monthly Press
Interviews and guest spots on dozens of paintball blogs (Link to one as an example here) http://llpaintball.com/tag/sawyer-smith/

Mentions in NPPL Weekly Newsletters (Link to most recent here) http://www.nppl.com/news/254

Recently, HB Culture Magazine featured a two page spread of the NPPL HB Event. The first page had four pics - one of Sawyer, one of Dynasty, one of Max'd Kidz and one of the grandstands. That we got 50% of the photo spaces and shared with a team like Dynasty is exciting. The text about us in paragraph four read like this, "On the first day there was one team that really stood out to me. They are called Max' Kidz! They have this 11 year old kid named Sawyer "Soi Soi" Smith, #23, who in his third season kicks some major ass! Sawyer had so much spunk about him and sported a bitchin' green mohawk!! It was so sweet to watch him take out grown adults. I got a chance to meet this kid, who holds himself more like a GI JOE, in the VIP booth and not only was he awesome to watch play but he was also super chill to talk to."

We show up all over the place randomly in other people's paintball videos. LA Hitmen and Max'd Kidz are pretty much the only Divisional teams shown as the rest are all Professional Teams in this particular video link on NPPL HB 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynAmvPo6h4U (1 minute 46 sec mark).
Max'd Kidz YouTube videos have started to be put up by others (not us but friends and fans) and have accumulated thousands of views. Here is a link to one of them - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaRcHEhuEY0

Last week Sawyer and his Dad sat down for on camera interviews for the Paintball Documentary coming out soon - "Holding the Wire". Go to http://www.holdingthewire.com/ to see the movie's trailer. Sawyer and Max'd Kidz will be featured in the movie.
So, there it is in a nutshell! March thru August.

We'll do better updating the blog - WE PROMISE!!!

Sawyer Sez on BallersCafe 3.7.2011

2011-03-07T11:36:00.000-08:00

Here is the link!

http://www.ballerscafe.com/forum/showthread.php?45787-Sawyer-Sez-3.7.2011-RPL-EVENT-1&p=475841#post475841

Picture of the Week

2011-03-07T10:41:00.000-08:00

On the Podium - 2nd Place - RPL Event #1 - Division 2 -

Reppin' the Sponsors

2011-03-02T08:49:00.001-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6W5fjMpcQI

2011 Season Preview for Max'd Kiz

2011-03-01T17:56:00.000-08:00

Time to bring everyone up to speed!!! 2011 is going to be a very exciting paintball season for Sawyer and Max'd Kidz.

First, a shout out to our sponsorship family. Our Platinum Level Sponsors - Planet Eclipse will be supplying the team with Ego 11's and Geo2's as well as pants, gloves and jerseys, Ninja Paintball will be supplying the team with air systems, Camp Pendleton Paintball Park allows us to practice on their fields, Gen X Global will be supplying the team with pods, pods and more pods, DGX as a shop sponsor, PB Fashion will be supplying the team with headbands as well as other misc apparel, Derder Productions will be supplying the team with barrel bands and video coverage. Our Diamond Level Sponsors - KM Straps will be supplying the team with Spines for their loaders and goggle straps. Our Gold Level Sponsors - Ballerscafe, Cashack Reports, NuSkool Paintball, Paintball Photography, PBLive, Style Points, Tough Chrono are all thanked for their support be it through media, coaching help, or gear.

Second, a big thanks to our coach for the 2011 season, Rich Telford of Sacramento XSV. Rich will be working with the team on select weekends all season long in the 7 man format. We have already spent 1 weekend training with him and all I can say is WOW. If you need some coaching - part time - not just full time - CALL RICH!!! Email us for info.

Third - We will be playing our first event of the season next week - The RPL opener in Lake Elsinore (PSP style). We will also be playing all D League events (7 Man affiliate league to the NPPL) as well as 7 man in the NPPL itself. The team has officially moved up from D4 to D2.

Fourth - please allow me to introduce our roster:
Co Captain Larry Ceballos - Back
Co Captain Adam Erbeck - Back
Sawyer Smith - Back
Michael Hanson - Mid
Brandon Teunissen - Back
Brad Lombardo - Mid
Chris Hamilton - Front
Jay Soltani - Mid
James Escobar - Front

Fifth - Team photos will be taken this weekend. Stay tuned!

That's about it for the 2011 season. Wish us luck. Stay tuned for more info and updates about Sawyer and Max'd Kidz by checking the blog at smithpaintballblog.blogspot.com. Follow us on Twitter at smithpaintball. Friend us on FaceBook at sawyer dan jonah smith. Watch our YouTube videos at youtube.com/smithpaintballvideos. Tune in Wednesdays at 7 pm PST to watch the Sawyer Sez segment on PBLive.tv. Read the Sawyer Sez column each week at BallersCafe.com

Here are a few pics of Sawyer with some of his new gear until the team photo shoot this weekend.

Thanks to Derder and KM Straps

2011-03-01T17:17:00.000-08:00

Everyone make sure to go to http://www.kmstraps.com/ and http://www.derder.com/ - show them some support!!!

Sawyer Sez on Ballers Cafe

2011-03-01T17:14:00.000-08:00

Here is the link!

http://www.ballerscafe.com/forum/showthread.php?45754-Sawyer-Sez-for-BallersCafe-3.1.2011&p=475674#post475674

Sawyer Sighting

2011-03-01T14:45:00.001-08:00

http://www.catshackreports.com/2011/02/sawyer-sez-what/

Check out the Sawyer Sez What update on the Catshack Reports

Sawyer Sez Episode #22 Option B

2011-02-12T10:36:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxHWPXZm7Ho

Sawyer Sez Episode 22 Option A

2011-02-12T10:23:00.001-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3txE7bGjbI

Sawyer Sez Episode 21

2011-02-12T10:22:00.001-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1AN3Ycrz_8

Max’d Kidz to use Ninja air systems for 2011

2011-02-12T08:55:00.001-08:00

Coming soon - a picture of Max’d Kidz sporting their new Ninja air systems from Platinum Sponsor Ninja Paintball. Max’d Kidz – POWERED BY NINJA!!!

Max’d Kidz to wear and use Planet Eclipse gear for 2011

2011-02-12T08:53:00.000-08:00

Coming soon - a picture of Max’d Kidz sporting their new markers from Platinum Sponsor Planet Eclipse. The team will be shooting custom Ego 11’s and Geo 2’s for the 2011 season. They will also be wearing new pants, jerseys and gloves – all provided by Planet Eclipse.

Max’d Kidz registers for 1st event in 3 leagues

2011-02-12T08:34:00.000-08:00

Max’d Kidz has officially registered for the first event in all three leagues we will be playing in this year. First up is The RPL on March 5-6 at Jungle Island in Lake Elsinore, CA. To register, go to www.therpl.com

Up next is the NPPL’s Surf City Open in Huntington Beach, arguably paintball’s best and most attended event annually. It will be held on the beach by the pier in Huntington Beach on April 1-3. To register, go to www.nppl.com

To finish up all the first events we will be playing in, Max’d Kidz is registered for the D League on April 30-May 1at the Camp Pendleton Tournament Parks in Oceanside, CA. To register, go to http://www.dleaguepaintball.com/

Sawyer Sez on BallersCafe is posted

2011-02-12T08:10:00.000-08:00

http://www.ballerscafe.com/forum/showthread.php?45650-Sawyer-Sez-2.12.2011&p=474982#post474982

Sawyer Sez on PBLive.tv catch ups

2011-01-28T11:54:00.000-08:00

Catch the 1/19 and 1/26 Sawyer Sez Episodes #21 and #22 onthe PBLive.tc site under the Sawyer Sez section on the home page - they were not posted on YouTube for us to link

Episode #19 NPPL Vegas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFJDTk8oyjY

Episode #20 RPL Final Fight http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNuYc4D91HM

Max'd Kidz looking to add a player to roster - maybe two

2011-01-28T11:27:00.000-08:00

Max'd Kidz current roster consists of 7 players, but due to playing both 5 man and 7 man for the 2011 season, the team is looking to add one or tweo more players.

Max'd Kidz will be playing at the Division 2 level in the NPPL, D League and RPL in 2011. All players, D1 thru D4 ranked would be alowed to try out (We all know rankings don't always matter) and current rules allow D2 teams to have 2 D1 players on the roster.

Max'd Kidz has great sponsorships for the 2011 season. Specifics can be discussed confidentially.

Players interested should contact Dan Smith ASAP at 949-514-5334 by call or text or email him at smithpaintball@yahoo.com.

Sawyer Sighting

2011-01-28T10:29:00.001-08:00

In the trailer of the movie due out Fall 2011

http://www.holdingthewire.com/

Sawyer Sighting

2011-01-28T10:28:00.000-08:00

APG March 2011 Issue Pages 60 and 61

Max'd Kidz announces sponsors for 2011 season

2011-01-28T10:21:00.000-08:00

Max'd Kidz is pleased to announce their sponsors for the 2011 season. Although there are a few deals still in the works, below are the sponsors who will have contracts with and look forward to working with during the 2011 season.

Platinum Sponsors:
Planet Eclipse Ego 11's, Geo 2's, Jerseys, Pants, Gloves
Ninja Paintball Tanks and Regs and Tank Covers
The Paintball Park at Camp Pendleton as our home field
PBFashion Headbands and Casual Wear
Gen X Global Pods
DGX as our Home Store
Diamond Sponsors:
Derder Productions Barrell Bands and Media
KM Straps Goggle Straps and Spines

Gold Sponsors:
BallersCafe Media
Catshack Reports Media
NuSkool Paintball/Nicky Cuba Coaching and Casual Wear
PaintballPhotography Media
PBLive Media
Rich Telford Coaching
Style Points/Thomas Taylor Coaching and Casual Wear
Tough Chrono Chronographs

Max'd Kidz roster changes for 2011

2011-01-28T10:08:00.000-08:00

Maving the move to Division 2 for the 2011 season, Max'd Kidz announces the following roster changes:

Chris Talbot, Jesse Escober and Kevin Hunyh will not be on the 2011 roster.

The squad is pleased to announce the addition of 2 new players to their roster - Chris Hamilton and Jay Soltani.

Max'd Kidz to play D2 and 3 leagues in 2011

2011-01-28T10:07:00.000-08:00

Max'd Kidz is pleased to announce they will be playing D2 in the NPPL, RPL and D Leagues for the 2011 season.

This will be the 2nd season for the team and their first playing 7 man in addition to 5 man.

More Wrap Up Pics

2011-01-28T09:58:00.000-08:00

Wrap Up Pics

2011-01-28T09:53:00.000-08:00

Wrap Up - October thru Mid Jan

2011-01-28T09:43:00.000-08:00

So - alot has happened since the blog was updated - as the season came to and end last year we were just so busy - and then the off season came and a break from paintball and all the responsibilities came too - but now it's time not only to start grinding at practice - but grinding on all the other stuff too like the blog, Facebook, Twitter, Sawyer Sez, Etc.

Where we left off - Bonus Balls leading up to NPPL Vegas. We took 2nd. We had it in the bag, let down, got pushed to a 1on1 and then lost it. Bummer. Free entry to Vegas - GONE. OUCH.

Then the week before Vegas - our snake player James breaks his hand at practice. OUCH OUCH.

Then we go to Vegas with 7 guys on the roster - One is having a baby that weekend. One is told if he misses work he is fired. One has a family member die and has to go to the funeral. Down to 4 guys on Wednesday night already in Las Vegas. OUCH OUCH OUCH.

We called EVERYONE frantic to pick up a player - we pick up Brandon Cornell from the Pirates. He came up Thursday. We started playing Friday. We went to Sunday with the #3 seed out of the prelims.

Played good but not great in Vegas. Our roster was a mess. Cornell played good - but the team didn't quite click. We got 3rd when the event was over. Good but still sort of an ouch. Would have stomped with our full roster.

Good news is Sawyer played like a hero. We only had 5 players with Cornell filling in for the fifth spot so Sawyer played every game. Lots of G's. Even won 2 games by himself at the end - both being 1on1's with time running down but he shot 'em out - grabbed and hung the flag both times - REALLY AWESOME. He really picks it up for the big events.

We finish NPPL D4 ranked 5th for season - pretty good only playing 2 of 4 events.

Next we have RPL. We won the event and we won the Series Title for AAA.

Next we have WCPPL. Never playing WCPPL again. Hinman is a joke. Totally cheated. Didn't effect us really, but he still cheated. We just got stomped. But he's still DIRTY. We played the event at D2 for the first time. Also played a Race format for the first time. Took some getting used to, but was a great learning experience and we had a total blast. For sure helped for going into the 2011 season.

Ended up #2 in D4 in the WCPPL without even playing the final event in that Division. Pretty cool.

So then we just sort of hung out, played some rec ball and relaxed the rest of December and February. Now it is January 2011. We have had a few practices, changed our roster a bit - and James our snake player is back practicing with us. Check the other posts for all the exciting stuff. Hope this brings everyone up to speed quickly.

Sawyer Sighting

2010-10-27T17:58:00.001-07:00

http://square1paintball.squarespace.com/ from scavenger hunt in Las Vegas at NPPL

Melody in HK Army NPPL Vegas Video

2010-10-19T14:24:00.001-07:00

http://www.propaintball.com/2010/10/nppl-vegas-with-hollywood-hk-paintball-vid/

at 2:33

Picture of the Week

2010-10-19T13:42:00.000-07:00

Sawyer and Max'd Kidz who played in NPPL Las Vegas World Championships with guest player Brandon Cornell after winning the match to take home 3rd Place in Division 4 Five man.

Bonus Balls Event #4 Sept 2010

2010-09-28T15:11:00.000-07:00

Winning First is WAY more fun than winning Second. Last weekend we played in the 4th event of the Bonus Balls Series - we had the #1 seed going into the playoffs - we were in the Finals - we won Game 1 - and then we let down. A stale in Game 2 and a loss in Game 3 took us to a 1 on 1 tiebreaker. We tied. Another 1 on 1 - we tied! Another 1 on 1 - we tied! Another 1 on 1 - we lost! Quadruple overtime. And we lost. Such a bummer. It's still great to win 2nd Place - but we feel we had this one and just lost it. It was no one persons fault. We should have finished it in Game 2 or 3 of the Finals. The guys who did the 1 on 1's put a lot of weight on their shoulders. I was really worried because it was my time to play if there were 2 more ties. So I think we learned a pretty valuable lesson this week - or two! First, finish strong and don't put yourself in that position. Second, we should practice 1 on 1's more.

BallersCafe Sawyer Sez 9.28.2010

2010-09-28T15:02:00.000-07:00

http://www.ballerscafe.com/forum/showthread.php?45064-Sawyer-Sez-Column-9.28.2010&p=470878#post470878

Picture of the Week

2010-09-28T14:46:00.000-07:00

Sawyer and Dad at Decay of Nations IV at SC Village 8/2010

Sawyer Sez #18 PBLive RPL Fresno

2010-09-23T09:18:00.001-07:00

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

Catshack Reports Max'd Kidz Story

2010-09-23T08:39:00.001-07:00

http://www.catshackreports.com/2010/09/maxd-kidz-continue-winning-streak/#more-10956

More Pics from RPL Fresno

2010-09-22T11:59:00.000-07:00

Pics from RPL Fresno

2010-09-22T11:56:00.000-07:00

RPL Wrap Up

2010-09-22T11:49:00.000-07:00

http://www.ballerscafe.com/forum/content.php?633-RPL-Event-5-September-18-and-19-Wrap-Up

WCPPL Wrap Up

2010-09-22T11:44:00.000-07:00

http://www.ballerscafe.com/forum/content.php?630-WCPPL-Event-4-Wrap-Up-By-BallersCafe-Staff

Another Orange County Newspaper Sawyer Sighting

2010-09-20T15:00:00.000-07:00

http://epaper.ocregister.com/Olive/ODE/OCWSaddlebackValleyNewsLFLH/

GO TO PAGE 4 of the newspaper

Derder Productions videos of Max'd Kidz at WCPPL

2010-09-20T14:56:00.000-07:00

Thanks to Derder for all the great videos!!!

Finals http://www.vimeo.com/15027821

Semi Finals http://www.vimeo.com/15026549

Quarter Finals http://www.vimeo.com/15009342

Sweet 16 http://www.vimeo.com/15009452

Prelims http://www.vimeo.com/14986368

http://www.vimeo.com/14983912

http://www.vimeo.com/14983654

http://www.vimeo.com/14983568

Paintball Extravaganza 2010 in Orange County CA

2010-09-20T14:51:00.000-07:00

We went!

It rocked!

We hooked up with some sponsors!

Stay tuned for the news when we release it!

Sawyer Sighting

2010-09-20T14:00:00.001-07:00

http://www.ballerscafe.com/forum/content.php?630-WCPPL-Event-4-Wrap-Up-By-BallersCafe-Staff

Sawyer Sez on BallersCafe 9.20.2010

2010-09-20T13:48:00.003-07:00

http://www.ballerscafe.com/forum/showthread.php?45034-Sawyer-Sez-Column-9.20.2010&p=470653#post470653

Picture of the Week

2010-09-20T13:16:00.000-07:00

Sawyer an Jonah after RPL Fresno 9.2010 - Sawyer won 1st in 5 man and 3 man - Jonah won 1st in 3 man beginner

Sawyer Sez #17 - WCPPL EVENT #4

2010-09-17T21:25:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D29fbgt5Nrc

Sawyer Sez 9.13.2010 on BallersCafe

2010-09-13T14:25:00.000-07:00

http://www.ballerscafe.com/forum/showthread.php?45010-Sawyer-Sez-Column-9.13.2010&p=470431#post470431

Picture of the Week

2010-09-13T13:19:00.000-07:00

Team Max'd Kidz after winning WCPPL event #4 in Oceanside, CA.

Sawyer Sez # on PBLive.tv episodes 15 and 16

2010-09-01T11:07:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE0DVzigfV8 - Episode 15 - Meet the team and CC Paintball's new paint

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3TWPxlxktg - Episode 16 - DEACY OF NATIONS AT SC VILLAGE

Sawyer Sez 8.24.2010 - DECAY OF NATIONS BIG GAME

2010-08-24T10:42:00.000-07:00

http://www.ballerscafe.com/forum/showthread.php?44896-Sawyer-Sez-Column-8.24.2010&p=469522#post469522

Picture of the Week

2010-08-23T16:10:00.000-07:00

Sawyer playing in Decay of Nations HUGE SCENARIO game at SC Village this past weekend.

Sawyer Sighting - Kingman Training commercial

2010-08-23T16:00:00.000-07:00

Someone sent us the direct link to the Kingman Training commercial Sawyer is in -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPER_dwBo2g

Enjoy!!!

Picture of the Week

2010-08-20T21:50:00.001-07:00

Thomas Taylor and family visited Sawyer and family at the San Onofre State Beach on a summer vacation camping trip.

YouTube Catch Up on random videos and also random pics

2010-08-20T21:50:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvajBI23G7Y - Max'd Kidz practice at SC Village (random)

Max'd Kidz adds Escobar and Chavez to the squad

2010-08-20T21:49:00.000-07:00

Max'd Kidz has continued to add players to their roster, bringing the total number now on the team to 9. Max'd Kidz plans to play in PSP and Race-To events in 2011 and is gradually growing their roster with the right players to prep for the fast paced events.

The two newest additions are Brandon Chavez and Jesse Escobar, older brother of Max'd Kidz snake player James Escobar.

Just found this guys videos - some featuring Max'd Kidz here and there

2010-08-20T21:47:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks_DKiSwe8M&feature=sub - a day of practice at SC Village 8/15/10

- thanks to Larry for spotting it!!!

Links to Derder Productions Videos of Max'd Kidz in WCPPL Event #2

2010-08-20T21:46:00.000-07:00

http://vimeo.com/11936566 WCPPL Event #2 2010 Max'd Kidz beats Los Angeles Union

http://vimeo.com/11934941 WCPPL Event #2 2010 Max'd Kidz beats San Diego Mob 3

Sawyer Sighting

2010-08-20T21:45:00.000-07:00

Go to splatphotos.com and go to the event photos

Checkout the cool pic of Sawyer on the frontpage for the RPL event in Reno

smithpaintballblog named Top Ten Extreme Sports Blog

2010-08-20T21:44:00.000-07:00

PRETTY COOL - SEE BELOW -

Smith Paintball, was determined to be one of the best blogs to learn

about paintball and has received the 2010 Top 10 Extreme Sports Blogs award!

You can see your name amongst our winners here at:

www.onlineschools.org/top_extreme_paintball/#Smith_Paintball

Winners were chosen through a scoring system led by internet nominations,

which came from your reader base!

The Orange County Register is doing a feature on Sawyer

2010-08-20T21:43:00.000-07:00

The Orange County Register has done a photo shoot and interview with Sawyer and will be printing it sometime soon. Check future blog posts for more information when it hits the paper.

Sawyer Sez Catch up

2010-08-20T21:42:00.001-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFFtgGgQ1m4 - Sawyer Sez #12 - Dad with a photo album

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbKSHFChxL8 - Sawyer Sez #13 - From Alcatraz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B31tXaujBi0 - Sawyer Sez #14 Part 1 of 4 with Thomas Taylor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtaYJ3D0Wp8 - Sawyer Sez #14 Part 2 of 4 with Tomas Taylor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd9wqqJ503o - Sawyer Sez #14 Part 3 of 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I03ukThRY1w - Sawyer Sez #14 Part 4 of 4

Sponsor SHOUT OUT

2010-08-20T21:42:00.000-07:00

Make sure you visit kingmantraing.com and nicky-cuba.com to see some AWESOME paintball gear - support paintball - buy there gear from these sites or from us at smithpaintballblog.bogspot.com

BallersCafe Sawyer Sez 8/20/2010

2010-08-20T21:40:00.000-07:00

http://www.ballerscafe.com/forum/showthread.php?44873-Sawyer-Sez-Column-8.20.2010&p=469326#post469326

RPL Event #4 Reno, NV Videos

2010-08-20T21:39:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ1m-KGDQxA - RPL #4 video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hN-dAUSbhI - Another RPL #4 video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hRXRk1phaM - A third RPL #4 video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFf_VfWjOLI - The team on the podium at RPL #4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0V-bB5ZFg0 - Jonah playing is his first tourney - RPL #4

MORE PICS - RPL Event #4 Reno, NV 3-Man and 5-Man

2010-08-20T21:38:00.000-07:00

RPL Event #4 Reno, NV 3-Man

2010-08-20T21:36:00.000-07:00

Same story - been writing on blog all day so this is going to be short and sweet - Sawyer played 3 man with his dad and Chad from Sucker Punch. Jonah, Sawyer's little bro who is 8 played 3 man beginner with some other kids. Both Sawyer and Jonah won their divisions. That was 3 First Places for the Smiths and Max'd Kidz throw together teams at RPL Reno. Yee Haa. Here we come RPL event #5 in Hollister.

MORE PICS - RPL Event #4 Reno, NV 5-Man

2010-08-20T21:32:00.000-07:00

RPL Event #4 Reno, NV 5-Man

2010-08-20T21:31:00.000-07:00

OK - I've been catching the blog up all day - so this is gonna be short and sweet. We played 5 Man. We won. That put us back in First Place for the season in overall points in The RPL with 2 events to play.

More roadtrip pics

2010-08-20T21:27:00.000-07:00

More Roadtrip Pics

2010-08-20T21:25:00.000-07:00

Roadtrip to the RPL Event #4 in Reno, NV

2010-08-20T21:24:00.000-07:00

A super brief recap and then the "Best Of" pictures of the trip until we rolled into Reno.

Monday night - Drive to San Francisco and arrive Tuesday at about 3 am

Tuesday - San Fran - what we did (in order):

Breakfast at the World Famous Lands End Baths
Japanese Tea Garden
Academy of Science
Ghirardelli Square
Chinatown
Cable Car Rides

Wednesday - San Fran:

Fisherman's Wharf
Arcade Museum
USS Pampanito Submarine
Boudin Sourdough Factory
Pier 39 (loved the magic shop)
Alcatraz
Ripleys Believe it or Not

Thursday - San Fran and Sacramento and Sutter's Mill:

Lombard Street
Golden Gate Bridge
Capitol building where we saw the Governor's Office, the Governor himself give a speech, our Senator Mimi Walters
Old Town Sacramento where we panned for gold, had posters printed on a 200 year old printing press, had the best ice cream cone ever
Sutter's Fort

Friday - Sutter's Mill and Auburn and Reno:

Sutter's Mill Gold Mine
Auburn Historic Town
ARRIVE IN RENO TO WALK THE FIELDS

Saturday and Sunday - RPL Event #4 and Circus Circus

Monday - Keough Hot Springs and Manzanar (World War II Japanese Internment Camp)

HOME!!!

Bonus Balls Tournament

2010-08-20T21:23:00.000-07:00

Max'd Kidz made the long drive to Valencia/Castaic to play in the RPL affiliate event - Bonus Balls at Warped Paintball Park.

Outcome - 1st Place - which won the team free entry to the RPL Event #4 in Reno, Nevada.

The team played really well, going undefeated and taking the #1 seed into the playoffs. They rolled through the quarters and semis pretty easily and then faced a tough Critical Kids team in the Finals. The tourney ended up being decided by a One on One. Team Captain Brandon Teunissen pulled out the overtime win by winning the One on One.

Max'd Kidz adds a 7th team member to play snake-James Escobar

2010-08-20T21:18:00.000-07:00

James Escobar is the newest member of Max'd Kidz. Brought on the play the snake side of the field. James will play his first event for the team in the July Bonus Balls tourney leading up to RPL event #4 in Reno.

BallersCafe Sawyer Sez 7.14.2010

2010-07-14T15:47:00.000-07:00

http://www.ballerscafe.com/forum/showthread.php?44603-Sawyer-Sez-Column-7.14.2010&p=467257#post467257

OUR TWO BIGGEST SPONSORS

2010-07-13T21:41:00.000-07:00

JUST A SPECIAL SHOUT OUT TO OUR TWO BIGGEST SPONSORS - KINGMAN TRAINING AND NUSKOOL PAINTBALL - SHOW THESE GUYS SOME LOVE AND SUPPORT THEM FOR SUPPORTING THE SPORT - http://www.kingmantraining.com/ AND http://www.nicky-cuba.com/

Latest YouTube Videos

2010-07-13T21:08:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13dhx8VmI0c - Sawyer Loves Kingman Training and NuSkool

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJwdU1u2cj0 - Sawyer playing some walk ons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5Gko8Lkf2k - Sawyer playing some more walk ons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rShupq03lds - Max'd Kidz practice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzp-nTekV_8 - CRAZY long game at practice

Picture of the Week

2010-07-12T18:58:00.000-07:00

Just found this RPL photo on another site. It's from RPL 2010 Event #2 in Las Vegas. We took 2nd Place. Pictured in the snake is Brandon Teunissen, our captain. This past weekend Brandon won a 1on1 tiebreaker in the Finals to win the tourney for Max'd Kidz.

Picture of the Week

2010-07-07T10:32:00.000-07:00

Forget paintball - we are talking GOOD VS EVIL here - The Republic VS The Dark Side - The 3 Smith Boys

Another Sawyer Sighting

2010-06-25T09:38:00.000-07:00

Go to http://www.kingmantraining.com/ - look on the left hand side of the page towards the bottom - see the new "Hide and Seek" Kingman Training video featuring Sawyer.

Sawyer Sighting

2010-06-25T09:37:00.001-07:00

Go to page 69 of the Skymall magazine and see a half page ad for Kingman Training featuring Sawyer. Here is the link for the magazine.

http://skymall.shoplocal.com/skymall/default.aspx?action=browsepageflash&storeid=2600514&rapid=920850&prvid=SkyMall-100623&promotioncode=SkyMall-100623&fsid=129219573482232550

Amazon.com linked to the BLOG to support Team Max'd Kidz

2010-06-25T09:35:00.000-07:00

Amazon.com is now linked to our BLOG http://www.smithpaintballblog.blogspot.com/ All purchases made on Amazon thru our BLOG will benefit team Max'd Kidz. Amazon.com is contributing a portion of each sale to the team's budget. Please tell you family, friends, and - well heck - everyone -that if they are going to buy from Amazon.com to do so from our BLOG and in the process help out a young Divisonal paintball team.

To link to Amazon.com from the BLOG - just scroll down a bit and look on the right hand side of the page for the Amazon.com search link.

Thank you.

Sawyer Sez on PBLive.tv #11 3 parts Interview with Oliver Lang

2010-06-25T09:30:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPO0ZvGpuf8 - Happy Father's Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo56V9bvms4 - Interview with Oliver Lang

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOcKUXTkG50 - Wrap up

Picture of the Week

2010-06-24T18:53:00.000-07:00

Sawyer and John playing recball at SC Village

New Sawyer Sez 6.24.2010 on BallersCafe.com

2010-06-24T18:40:00.001-07:00

http://www.ballerscafe.com/forum/showthread.php?44414-Sawyer-Sez-Column-6.24.2010&p=465725#post465725

SAWYER featured in NATIONWIDE AD CAMPAIGN FOR KINGMAN TRAINING

2010-06-24T11:51:00.000-07:00

Finally, we can let the cat out of the bag.

In March, Sawyer did a photo shoot for Kingman Training. The purpose of the photo shoot was to create an ad to be featured Nationwide in magazines on airlines. Just about everyone has looked at a Skymall magazine before. The Summer 2010 magazine has now been released. If you won't be on a plane in the near future, you can check it out at the Skymall website virtual magazine - http://www.skymall.com/. It is a half page ad on Page 69.

As far as anyone knows, this is the first time a paintball product has been advertised nationally to the mainstream public.

"It's pretty cool", Sawyer said about the ad. "I hope more people learn about paintball and start to play because they see the ad. I hope a lot of kids will tell their parents they want to try it and the sport will grow."

Kingman Training brought Sawyer back for a video shoot in June. They wanted to bring the photo shoot to life and feature the video on their website. It is now on the font page of their website - look toward the bottom left - http://www.kingmantraining.com/.

Kingman Training is Sawyer's biggest sponsor. "We have a few of the pistols, and they are so much fun to play with in the back yard. My brothers and I really like playing with them at home," said Sawyer. "We've even played with them on the fields before when we play recball."

Both the photo shoot and the video were filmed locally at the world famous Hollywood Sports Park, part of the Giant paintball family.

Sawyer normally has several of the Kingman Training pistols with him at practices and tournaments that he lets players try out as part of the "Next Big Thing" tour that Kingman Training has going. If you see him out there, just ask him.

This is a somewhat direct link to the ad - http://skymall.shoplocal.com/skymall/default.aspx?action=browsepageflash&storeid=2600514&rapid=920850&prvid=SkyMall-100623&promotioncode=SkyMall-100623&fsid=129218747883276068