Editing David Freeman (section)

== Early involvement in paintball ==

Freeman grew up on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, and worked in the grocery and dairy distribution industry before entering paintball.

In early 1982, he and Jeffrey Perlmutter participated in a [[National Survival Game]] event at a commercial playing field in Marengo, Illinois.

Both recognised the potential to establish a business supplying equipment to the developing paintball industry.

Perlmutter subsequently travelled to New Hampshire to negotiate franchise rights with National Survival Game. When the proposed arrangements could not be finalised on acceptable terms, Freeman and Perlmutter established an independent business.[1]