The Product

The Next Great Gearbag? The Infamous Modular Dry Fit Bag.

2/13/2022

I do quite a lot of traveling for the sport of paintball; whether it's a 6 hour drive to a big game in the middle of nowhere, or flying to NXL events, luggage and gear bags have always been an issue for me. It is difficult to find gear bags that you can essentially live out of during a four day NXL event, it's even harder to find one that protects your non-playing gear like electronics, clothing, and computers.

Over my 15 years in this sport, many gearbags have let me down with zippers breaking, water and mud damaging gear and clothes, or the bag just breaking down after a season of play. However, when I saw the first photos of the Infamous Modular Dry Bag system, I was quite intrigued.

Whats Important in a Gearbag?

The Team Behind the Skeleton Squad

Infamous was a brand that was born out of necessity; one of the best professional teams in paintball simply needed products that could perform to the highest standard. With the Infamous brand, owner Travis Lemanski has been able to rapidly build a diverse line of products including markers, triggers, barrel systems, protective gear, and so much more.

Travis Lemanski started playing professionally nearly 30 years ago, and through his career he earned dozens of professional wins, multiple World Championships, and was one of the best players in the sports history. Travis is now using that extensive experience in the game to create innovative products. He has always seemed to place his focus on building products that solve issues his team, Los Angeles Infamous, faces throughout a grinding competitive season; issues that all players face at one time or another.

What is arguably the best product from Infamous yet, their brand new Modular Dry Bag released at Paintball Extravaganza truly is built with the player in mind. The unique weatherproof material, player-friendly innovations, and modular nature of the bags are some of the reasons we absolutely loved this product at first sight.

The Oldest Story...

Let's paint a picture; you just landed at the airport for your next NXL event. From the moment you hit the bag carousel, your nightmare begins. As you begin to load your bulky and oddly shaped gear bag into the car to head to the field, you notice that it begins to rain. You arrive at the field, lug out your gear bag, and begin to slog through the mud. Your wheels are the first to go as they load up with sludge, soon after your gear inside is already soaking wet and you didn't even get to play the first point yet. As you finish the day, you begin to shove wet and slimy gear into your bag, right next to your nice, clean clothes. The iPad you brought along wont turn on from the moisture, the extra socks you brought are soggy, and you're struggling to stuff your marker setup inside. All of this could have been avoided if you just had the right gear and travel bag. Enter the Infamous Modular Dry Bag system.

The System

Durability

Durability is a big thing in paintball; the vast majority of players use and abuse their gear heavily, and the gearbag gets the heaviest abuse of them all. It gets thrown around the field, slammed on tables, pinballed through air-travel terminals, and rarely maintained.

The heavy-duty roller blade wheels immediately catch my eye, and when I ask Travis about them, he mentions they chose that style because they can be easily removed and replaced if they wear down or you need to clean out mud and debris, a feature nearly every other gearbag lacks.

The zippers also “lock” in with a final tapered edge that both helps to keep them secure, and adds to the strength of the zipper seal as well. This is quite important, especially for someone like myself who tends to overfill their bag and often has to really yank on the zippers to compress and close everything up.

One of the features of the bag I noticed and asked Travis about was the pull handle on the large roller gear bag. It had a pretty non-traditional polygon shape, Travis mentioned they designed it in this much stronger hexagon shape to reduce stress along the carry handle and extension bars and provide a stronger handle.

Weatherproofing

This bag is designed from the ground up to meet even the most demanding traveling and event schedule. The incredibly durable, weatherproof material used for the bag is just the first defense against moisture and bad weather. Paintball players, by far, demand a gear bag that can survive through the elements all day long and keep the gear inside dry, this bag nails that. The zippers are also all welded designs in order to ensure no water can penetrate the zippers either.

The feel of the material, to put simply, just feels high quality. It is very thick and all the stitching on the bag seems well sewn. It reminds me a lot of the material you often see in ultra high-end electronics bags and backpacks, and it absolutely seems capable of standing up to the abuse of travel and paintball.

Convienence

When it comes to the Modular Dry Bag System, what stands out the most to me is that it truly is the total package. Not only does it bring incredible durability with its water resistant design, but it packs in tons of convenient features that any player can appreciate. The most interesting of those features being the modular nature of the bag; it provides genuine flexibility for players whether you need enough space for a long NXL weekend, or just a quick trip to the field on Sunday. The smallest bag is able to be attached to either the medium or large bag using a magnetic latch system that effortlessly guides the bag into a secure and locked in position. The medium bag also has an additional strapping system added so it can slide and lock in on top of the large bag, allowing you to securely transport all your bags at once.

Jumping to the inside of the bag, there is a ton of space and extra pockets on both the medium and large bags for things like batteries, barrels, headwear, and gloves. The main compartments offer a blank canvas of space to store markers, air tanks, hoppers, packs, clothing, and more. By far the best part has to be the separate clean/dirty clothes sections of the large bag. It allows a player to safely store their clean clothes in a water resistant pocket, with a separate pocket for all their dirty gear at the end of the day.

One feature Travis pointed out as well were the many molle style straps on the exterior of the bags, he mentioned this was a feature added from necessity of his team, Infamous. Pro players like Kevin Rudolph and Harrison Frye added that they like to keep their marker fully set up at NXL events throughout the weekend. The added straps allow a player to simply hook their entire marker setup onto the outside of the bag securely and go on the move.

Why This Bag Makes Sense

From my experience with the bag, the only real downside initially was that the price was certainly on the upper end in terms of the gearbag market. However, it is justified considering the extremely high build quality of this bag, as well as its utility to be used for both paintball, and normal travel. Gear Bags tend to be one of those items that you can buy and hopefully use for a decade before you need to replace it. This bag appears to be that sort of gear bag.

This bag system just makes sense because it offers a ton of relevant features for the modern player, keeps your gear dry, and provides a full assortment of options for traveling to paintball events, for work, or leisure. The high quality and durable material used for this bag should stand up to even the most demanding conditions.

For those interested in this gearbag system, the Modular Dry Bag can be purchased directly from Infamous Paintball at https://infamouspaintball.com/collections/bags

Our Final Thoughts...

NOTE: This review was independently done at Paintball Extravaganza while inspecting, using, and looking at the Modular Dry Bag system during its debut, as well as conducting interviews with Infamous staff. This is not a paid review.

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