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Bob Long

Bob Long is rated by many as the best professional paintball team captain and coach in the world.

With a background in hunting, he captained the original Ironmen, one of the "old school" professional paintball teams - "old school" meaning they were first active in the 80's and 90's.

After dissatisfaction from within the team caused it to split into two factions - the SC Ironmen, captained by Rich Telford, and Bob Long's Ironmen, captained by Bob - the latter incarnation of the Ironmen went on to become Bob Long's Assassins, and then finally the Oakland Assassins.

Bob Long's Assassins played in the X-Ball paintball format and were very successful. The final version of the team, the Oakland Assassins, played in the NPPL, which was a different format of paintball to X-Ball. Throughout their playing career, the Assassins used various versions of the Intimidator and later the Marq paintball marker, designed and built by Bob Long himself.

Bob is credited with training some of the world's best professional paintball players, such as Quincy Boyes, Danny Miller, Pep Escutia and Tyler Harmon, who currently plays for San Diego Dynasty.

http://paintball.com/story.php?aid=3606 bob long

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