About
Welcome to the paintball world.
Welcome to the game, the sport, the pastime.
Welcome to the fight.
Welcome to Transcend paintball.
In order to move forward, we have to look closer into what this world entails, the people who move through it, the players and teams who define it.
We are bankers and butchers, pole vaulters and police, soldiers and singers. We are on every continent, every corner of the globe. We are construction workers slaving away in the San Antonio sun, with dreams of a top podium placing and a title. We are pro ballers grinding drills at a gym in Moscow; surfing the beaches of San Diego rubbing welts in the salt water on a Monday after a vicious practice; a bartender running wind sprints in the California heat until he pukes, after a long night shift. We are kids reffing twelve hours for a half case of paint, who one day will be the next Oli Lang, the next Dynasty.
We are all this and much, much more. People woven into the fabric of the real world but wandering through their day, paintball on their minds, lost in the passion of the gunfight, lost in the grind, preparing for their time to shine.
We are cage fighters, pastors, doctors, and warehouse workers. We’re everywhere and we all have a story.
Transcend is here to bring this vibrant paintball narrative alive, one story at a time—on the field, off the field, behind the scenes, in the trenches.
You will see, hear, and read things here you cannot find anywhere else.
Open your eyes, your eyes, and your mind.
Transcend.
Matt Marshall
“I travel around, from place to place, and do a lot of things that involve paintball in some way, shape or form. I like to tell stories. I like to live stories. Stories make me feel not dead. I’ve spent most of my years on the road, in an intense drunk-in-life daze, trying to figure out how the hell I’m going to describe this vivid ride. When not on an adventure, I’m in the amazing paradise of San Diego, where I grew up, spending time with people who have something to say, with people who are awake, not slumbering through the brief, eye blink of time we get on this world. Open your eyes. Look around. Enjoy yourself while you’re here.”
Matt has also won a lot of professional paintball tournaments, played for the Ironmen and XSV, was the Editor at Large for P8NT Magazine and has written for just about every other paintball magazine. He’s appeared in the films Push, Sunday Drivers, Cereal Killers and Heroes for a Day.
Chris Dilts
Chris Dilts is an acclaimed photographer and graphic designer who served as the Photographic Editor of P8NT Magazine from 1999-2005. He’s worked for PGI, Paintball 2Xtremes, the NPPL and plenty of other paintball companies. He is widely regarded, along with Roman Manière and Luis Salcedo, with having pioneered the modern look of paintball photography. An obsessive traveler Chris lives in Chicago, where he hurts himself on expensive bikes running red lights and fighting cabs.
His portfolio is at ChristopherDilts.com and he blogs works in progress at blog.ChristopherDilts.com.
Bart Blonski
“I have been playing paintball since I was ten years old. My love for the sport and lifestyle magnified when I turned pro in 2002. I was one of the youngest players on my team, but even back then I realized how the lifestyle kept the older guys young at heart. some of the guys were over 30 and 40 years old yet to me they were no older than I was.
Even before I turned pro, I slung a camera. I would be traveling with my best friends to new places, have incredible experiences, and lived in those moments. To me It’s indescribable so I always had my camera with me. Through the 2000’s I freelanced as a photographer for most of the large magazines. When I stopped playing for the New York franchise team, also where I currently live, I stopped freelancing in paintball. I still brought my camera everywhere I went. I felt that there was never an acceptable way to share the stories and experiences the way I wanted to. This is why transcend is that outlet. It is why I sleep easier on an airplane than in my own bed, and why I always get food sickness. It’s because the trip would be nothing if I didn’t try the local food and experience the things around me, because when I’m at home I’m thinking about the next trip, and when I’m on the way there, the flight is the only thing I want to be asleep through.”
