300 FPS (paintball film)

300 FPS, also known as 300 Feet Per Second, is a 2003 American tournament paintball film produced by DerDer. It is one of the company's earliest full-length video releases and documents competition in Paintball Sports Promotions (PSP) tournaments during the early development of modern professional speedball.[1][2]

The film features tournament footage from Las Vegas, Chicago and Philadelphia, combining match action, team profiles and music-driven editing.[2]

300 FPS was promoted at the 2003 Paintball World Cup, where contemporary WARPIG coverage identified it as a new DerDer Productions video.[1]

Production and content

300 FPS was produced during the early years of DerDer, the American paintball video company associated with filmmaker Rob Astamendi.

The film documents PSP tournament paintball, including five-player and ten-player competition.

Its recorded locations include:

Las Vegas
Chicago
Philadelphia

Contemporary retail descriptions identify close-range bunker footage, player confrontations, team sections and music as prominent features of the production.[2]

A 2005 soundtrack discussion on PbNation provides additional information about individual sequences in the film.

These include sections devoted to the Addicted, Mantis and Momma's Boys paintball teams, alongside footage from five-player competition in Las Vegas and Chicago and ten-player competition in Las Vegas.[3]

The film's presentation relied heavily on edited tournament footage accompanied by independent rock music, a style that DerDer continued to use in its subsequent productions.

Release and distribution

300 FPS was available by October 2003.

WARPIG's contemporary coverage of the 2003 PSP World Cup trade show includes a photograph caption identifying 300 fps as a new release from DerDer Productions.[1]

The film was distributed on DVD and was subsequently marketed as part of a two-disc package with The Euro Tour.

Although the films were packaged together, they were separate productions covering American and European tournament paintball respectively.[2]

300 FPS was also included in a later six-film DerDer compilation alongside Natural Selection, War of Attrition, Free Agent, Soldiers of Misfortune and Progression.[4]

Soundtrack

Music was a prominent element of 300 FPS, accompanying tournament footage and individual team sequences.

The soundtrack featured independent punk rock, alternative rock and related genres.

On 24–26 August 2005, members of PbNation discussed the film's soundtrack and compiled a list of thirteen recordings associated with the production.

The discussion also identified several songs used in particular tournament and team segments.[3]

Identified recordings

No.	Song	Artist
1	To All the People	Oneside Red
2	Breaking the Silence	Oneside Red
3	Best Wishes	Just a Joke
4	Cover Your Eyes	Stinkaholic
5	Job	The Teeth
6	Basement Girl	Oneside Red
7	Scandalous Evangelist	Spoken Gun
8	Does That Make Sense	The Jealous Sound
9	Communication	The Teeth
10	Naive	The Jealous Sound
11	We Want More	Stinkaholic
12	Academy Flight Song	No Knife
13	The Weekends	Caution Children

The list is based on a contemporary community transcription published in August 2005. It has not been independently verified against an original DVD credit sequence and should not be treated as a definitive official soundtrack listing.[3]

Music used in tournament sequences

The same discussion identified the following associations between songs and scenes in the film.

Sequence	Song	Artist
Introduction	To All the People	Oneside Red
Las Vegas five-player competition	Breaking the Silence	Oneside Red
Addicted team section	Best Wishes	Just a Joke
Las Vegas ten-player competition	Cover Your Eyes	Stinkaholic
Mantis team section	Communication	The Teeth
Chicago five-player competition	Basement Girl	Oneside Red
Momma's Boys team section	We Want More	Stinkaholic
Blooper sequence	Scandalous Evangelist	Spoken Gun

A separate contributor identified "Naive" and "Does That Make Sense" by The Jealous Sound with the Philadelphia five-player footage.[3]

The 2005 discussion also records that DerDer's website previously offered a music section containing downloadable soundtrack recordings, although participants reported that not all songs were available through the company.[3]

Reception and preservation

300 FPS remained familiar to paintball audiences after its original release.

In April 2021, PbNation administrator John announced that the complete DVD had been made available online with permission previously obtained from Rob Astamendi.

The announcement described the film as a widely owned paintball DVD, although independently verified sales figures were not provided.[5]

The online release made the documentary accessible beyond its original physical distribution.

The film also appeared in later discussions among players recalling early-2000s tournament paintball and the music associated with DerDer's productions.

Availability

The full-length film is available on YouTube through the PbNation Paintball channel.

Its online publication was announced by PbNation on 22 April 2021, with the administrator stating that permission for the upload had been obtained from Rob Astamendi.[5]

The original DVD was also distributed individually, in a two-disc package with The Euro Tour, and as part of a later DerDer compilation.[2][4]

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