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BRIDGEWATER — Paintball admirers who accept had to abolish weekend amateur due to rain, snow, calefaction or cold, or aloof apparent black or continued for weekday fun can rejoice.
Hardcore Paintball Amphitheatre is accessible for business at Chimney Rock Road and Route 22 East in Bridgewater, and it's the better one in the state.
"Hardcore Paintball is the better in New Jersey and the better on the East Coast," co-owner Harvey Schneider said. "We accept 22,000 aboveboard anxiety — there's no one bigger than us."
Schneider said the abstraction for a huge calm paintball ability came to him back he would booty his son and babe to alfresco paintball fields in added genitalia of the tri-state area.
Schneider said he would see about 200 bodies there one day, addition 100 or added the next, and he started cerebration — this could be a big business.
"My wife and I would booty my kids, bead them off or break and watch them for a while," Schneider said. "Then my son and babe said, you should accessible up an calm paintball place."
"They consistently went to the alfresco places, but they had to shut bottomward as anon as it gets aphotic out, they can't accessible during the week, and if it rains or snows, they're no good," Schneider said.
Because Hardcore Paintball is all indoors, it can be acrimonious in the algid or air-conditioned during hot weather, and never accept to anguish about rain or snow.
Schneider said he and accomplice Angelo DiMaggio, who accept been accompany on Staten Island back they were about 10 years old, did a lot of analysis on altered areas, but they chose Bridgewater because there are a cardinal of ample schools in the area, and above highways from all over the accompaniment accommodated aloof yards from their door.
Schneider said the belt has been all-around from the start, including architecture official Stephen Rodzinak and Economic Development Office Howard Turbowitz.
Bridgewater Recreation alike appropriate an abstraction for kids with no abode to adhere out, and Hardcore took them up on it.
"When academy is out we're activity to accept our aboriginal boyhood night," Schneider said. "We'll accept the nets raised, we're bringing in a ball floor, and we're putting in a big complete system."
Teen night was appropriate by Bridgewater Recreation for kids who accept annihilation to do.
During the academy year, the amphitheatre is accessible from 3 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, until 10 p.m. or midnight after into the week. Saturdays are accessible 9 a.m. to midnight, and Sundays are accessible 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. The amphitheatre is bankrupt Mondays except for clandestine parties.
Schneider said there are two clandestine affair rooms, and a abate affair acreage for about 20 kids abaft the capital arena field, which can handle about 70 players in abounding activity dress.
Hardcore does altogether parties, accumulated parties, alike available and bachelorette parties.
"I accept one available and bachelorette affair advancing who appetite to comedy anniversary added with the girls cutting brawl dresses and the guys cutting old suits, Schneider said. "And we appointed a accumulated night with about 50 bodies accomplishing a career architecture night."
In the summer, Hardcore Paintball will be accomplishing summer camps with able paintball players teaching basal and avant-garde paintball abilities and captivation clinics during the week.
Schneider additionally said they will be accomplishing "lock-in" nights.
"You can bead your kids off actuality at 10 p.m. with their sleeping accoutrements and acrylic gear, and already all the kids are in, all the doors breadth sealed," Schneider said. "We'll accept aegis and attorneys here, they'll break until 11 a.m. the abutting morning and we'll comedy paintball all through the night."
An important agency for Schneider is cleanliness. He said he's absolved into added places area you'd aloof anon get abounding of paint.
"The floors were like a sponge," Schneider said. "You airing in here, we pride ourselves on actuality clean. We use a appropriate blazon of paintball that is abnormally accessible to apple-pie up."
The advertise those paintballs at the retail counter, area you can add to your own claimed gear. And if you're alone testing the waters, there's a absolutely abounding rental allowance with equipment, clothes, and aggregate you'd charge to get in the game, safely. And there's a chargeless air compressor so players can amount up their gun tanks after cat-and-mouse on band or advantageous for air.
Schneider has additionally remembered what it's like for parents who appetite to accompany their kids to play. There's a parents' lounge with couches, big awning televison area you can sit, relax and watch your kids comedy after the babble or any adventitious of accepting hit with paint.
And there's a bite bar with packaged aliment and fresh, bootleg aliment like craven parmigiana, craven fingers and drinks. And there are barbecue tables aloof off the acreage if you appetite to booty the adventitious and get afterpiece to the action.
You can aloof airing in play, advantageous one amount no amount how continued you stay, and there will be alliance comedy starting Wednesday nights, and clash comedy starting soon.
And in July Schneider said they will be captivation a 16-team clash alleged Champ Booty All, with a top award-winning of $10,000, but no additional or third prizes. Aloof champ takes all.
"This is one of the better prizes in paintball," Schneider said. "We aloof acquaint it two canicule ago and I accept teams calling in from Virginia, California, and all over aerial in."
Schneider gives a lot of acclaim for the aboriginal success of Hardcore to "Rooster" Featherstone, their manager, whose been arena paintball for added than 20 years and active his own alfresco paintball field.
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"He runs the abode for us and we accept a aggregation that's untouchable," Schneider said. "But I additionally accept to acclaim my wife, Sharri, for me actuality in actuality for bristles months, 6 canicule a anniversary 15 hours a day."
For added advice about prices, hours an appropriate events, appointment the Hardcore Paintball Amphitheatre Facebook folio or their website or alarm 732-868-3188.
