This news is super old, guys. Just about a year old if I were to guesstimate but there are still a lot of paintballers I meet (mostly only the one's in person at the local field) who have no idea what Valken V-Tac is and I want to bring those folks into the loop, especially since I already have some Valken gear I use to ref in and more tactical gear from them in the mail that I really want to get people excited about! But first, just a little history...
A gentleman by the name of Gino Postorivo is the brains behind Valken Sports' paintball operations. Until last year, Valken was dealing exclusively in lacrosse, racing, hockey, and mixed martial arts sports equipment and Gino himself was legally obliged not to be involved in peddling paintball wares on account of a non-competing clause he signed when he sold his old paintball business to KEE Action Sports. His period of being in paintball limbo expired last year and in just one year he's brought Valken Paintball a line of paintball gear rivaling Dye and Empire and most certainly outdoing the other two in regards to variety.
Three lines of speedball gear were released by Valken in 2009: the Fate line for entry level, casual, and budget ballers. The Crusade line in 4 tribal flavors for novice to intermediate player which sat in the middle price range. And for those to whom money was no object, the coup de grace, the Redemption line of paintball gear in 4 additional color schemes.
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It was revealed in early 2010 that Valken was busting to push out a tactical line geared towards Milsim paintballers to fill a market niche which no other paintball company had claim to. Valken released two different lines of Milsim gear: the Sierra line and the Zulu line, Sierra resembling the Crusade line of speedball gear in construction and Zulu resembling Redemption, both with price points resembling their predecessors. The Zulu and Sierra lines came in 4 different camouflage schemes: Woodland, ACU, Marpat, and Tiger Stripe. Later in 2010 it was revealed that Valken was planning to release a Black SKU of Sierra and Zulu, as well as a Crye Precision Multicam SKU renamed “V-Cam”. Both of these new SKU's were to resemble Valken's 2011 Crusade and Redemption lines.
In the one and a half years that Gino Postorivo has been powering back into the paintball scene with Valken Sports, he's managed to introduce 5 lines of paintball gear, packs, vests, carve out Valken a strong spot in Milsim Paintball gear, produce a marker (the SW-1), and soon Valken will be releasing an electric hopper capable of feeding 30+ balls per second available in all the V-Tac camouflage colors and select Redemption patterns.
This V-Tac gear and speedball gear it's based off of is amazing stuff and you can see when examining it that a lot of thought went into the designs. When my gear arrives in a week or so I'll go into full details along with pictures to accompany all the reasons why this stuff is 100% worth your money. Video overviews of both Sierra and Zulu V-Tac lines can be found just below.
Sierra Pant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyNpVtGENGI&feature=related
Sierra Jersey: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIFwfdQqzCQ&feature=related
Zulu Pant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prTqBSCPGMs
Zulu Jersey: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6qySGtPSzM&feature=related
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