SECRETS TO WINNING AT PAINTBALL

This post is taken from HERE. 

Most team sports require teamwork, skill and planning. This can be seen in the winning teams of sports like basketball, football and hockey. The same approach can be taken to make a very good paintball team.

The best way to become a championship team is to know how to play both as a team and individually. It starts at practice where the team will learn to play both offense and in defense.

War games are simulated to emulate the real thing. A fort can be made and some members selected to protect it while the other group attacks. After each game, an assessment must be made so that any mistakes made can be corrected to make the team more efficient.

Aside from conducting some exercises within the group, other teams can be invited to participate in a practice to sharpen the skills before a tournament.

There are several ways that the exercise can end: by capturing the flag, eliminating all the members of the other group or waiting until the time expires.  A good way to train the participants to move swiftly during an offensive is by agreeing to a time limit before the exercise begins...

The members should rotate the roles of offense and defense during training exercise as both will have to be used in a real game.

Marksmanship should also be part of training. The members must be able to hit both stationary and moving targets since both are necessary in an actual game where both sides have limited ammunition.

 

Since the exercise usually lasts from 30 minutes to an hour, the team should make every shot count. The players should only fire when there is a clear shot available rather than not being able to fire when it matters the most. 

Stealth is another element needed to win the game of paintball. By being able to sneak up on the enemy first, the team can attack the enemy position before the opposing forces can mount a counterattack.

Learning to communicate using hand signals and sounds will prevent the other team from knowing what the team's plans are. By practicing all of these drills and scenarios in practice, the group will be ready to take on anyone in the league.

The secret to winning at paintball is not rocket science; it just takes a lot of practice so that each person knows what to do which will pay off during competition.

PAINTBALL TEAM STRATEGIES

This posting was taken from HERE 

So there you are just you and your best buddies, hip deep in the muck. You hear a twig snap, turn too late and you and your buddies are quickly covered in brightly colored paint circles. You've been fragged by the enemy. Even worse, you've been outsmarted by the enemy. It doesn't have to be this way.

You and your team need a strategy. Most paintballers ignore stealth and accuracy and instead focus on movement and firepower. That's their mistake, don't let it be yours. War is war. A battle is a battle. Some of the most brilliant minds in history from Genghis Kahn to General Macarthur have studied and improved the art of battle. Your paintballing experience will be well served if you'll learn from them.

Use a Sniper

Most paintballers do not understand sniper play and most paintballers discount accuracy. They favor movement and firepower. Of course firepower and forceful movement have their place on the paintball field just as they have their place in real combat. But how many times have powerful aggressive forces bogged down in long drawn out shooting matches. This is how Napoleon lost at Waterloo and Hitler lost in Russia. Of course an accurate, long distance shot with a paintball gun is just not in the realm of possibility. However, a well placed ambush sniper can pick your adversary apart after they pass. If your sniper is willing to belly-crawl into position he can get behind or beside the enemy force and pick them apart

Get yourself a good ghillie cape. All paint ball guns have about the same range so, your advantage is in getting closer to your enemy. If your paint gun, mask, and your pod belt are completely camouflaged in ghillie leaf, you'll have a significant advantage in the wooded margins of the battle field. If you're well camouflaged, the opposition will walk right by you without noticing you.

Consider purchasing a good red dot or holographic sight to make your first shots count. Make sure to use raised sight rails or special stocks to give your mask the clearance you'll need. Remember, a good sight will line you up with the target but, you still need to adjust for wind and drop over distance. Paintballs are not nearly as aerodynamic as a long, lean rifle bullet. A good Spyder paintball gun with raised sight rails and a holographic sight will put you at a definite advantage on the paintball field.

Clear, reliable, communication is one of the most important advantages in battle. Invest in good, well built radios for you and your team. Make sure the ear plugs are snug and don't fall out. Also make sure your radios are water resistant or water proof. A failure in communication between you and your team members could spell doom.

Now that you're well equipped, you just need wait for the whistle to blow. When it does, race your sniper into a position on the weak side. Have him place himself a little forward and a little to the side of the probable paths the enemy might take. It is vitally important that your enemy does not see your sniper move into position. Your sniper must be patient and allow the entire element to pass by. Once the enemy is fully committed to the siege, the noise and confusion of battle will provide adequate sound cover for him to begin picking them off one by one. A well hidden sniper can sideline many adversaries before they spot him, especially if he is willing to hold back and go quiet at the proper time. Just by letting the enemy pass by, in the first place, the enemy will be confused, as they fully expect that if someone is near, someone will be shooting at them. If they walk by and nobody fires at them, they become relaxed and assume they're in a safe area. Once, they make that assumption, you pick them off one by one.

The game of paintball is much more than paintball guns, paintball markers and other paintball gear. The mind and the plan are just as important as the equipment, even if you have laid out the bucks for a quality Spyder gun. If you prepare and plan properly, you can rest assured of a good day on the field of battle.

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Salahguna Goggle Paintball

Seorang wanita telah disabitkan kesalahan merompak dan semasa merompak itu, beliau memakai goggle paintball. Harap idea ini tidak digunapakai di negara kita pula.  

Tip Paintball Siri 1

The Break

Kneeling Shooting Tip

Snap Shooting

How to crawl in snake bunker

Running And Shooting Sliding

Iklan Yang Tidak Sepatutnya

Tentu ramai paintballerz sedar bahawa sukan ini semakin diberikan perhatian. Paintball telah menjadi salah satu dari permainan yang dipilih melalui program satu suara. Iklan satu suara berkaitan paintball boleh dilihat di stesen-stesen LRT. Melalui TV juga disiarkan iklan untuk program yang sama. Tetapi apa yang dikesalkan ialah permainan paintball dipaparkan secara yang salah khususnya dari aspek keselamatan permainan itu. Satu lagi kesalahan ialah pemain membawa marker di tempat awam, yang mana ia boleh menjadi salah anggap orang ramai. Semua ini boleh memberikan imej yang buruk terhadap permainan ini. 

Saya menulis tentang perkara ini dalam blog Bahasa Inggeris saya. 

Goggle Invasion 3

Inilah peralatan pertama yang aku beli sejak mula melibatkan diri dengan permainan lasak ini. Goggle yang dibeli ialah Dye Invasion 3.  

Sebelum ini terpaksa menyewa goggle dari tempat latihan dengan RM 20 satu. Diambil kira secara jangka panjang memang menguntungkan membeli goggle sendiri. Disamping dapat menjimatkan RM20 setiap kali bermain, memakai goggle sendiri adalah lebih baik jika diambil kira masalah kebersihan. House goggle diguna oleh ramai pemain dan risiko terjangkit jangkitan kulit tetap ada. 

Bagi kebanyakan pemain, goggle juga adalah peralatan pertama yang dibeli jika tidak dapat melengkapkan keseluruhan peralatan. Kini aku sudah ada goggle dan pant untuk paintball.   

Paintball Pant Dah Koyak

Aku baru je beli paintball pants ni. Harganya RM 250 kira harga sponsor. Kali pertama pakai masa training, tengok apa jadi. Celah kangkang koyak. Bahagian dalam paha kiri kanan pun koyak. Alamak. Ikut dakwaan dalam laman webnya, jika pakai pants ni pemain tak payah bimbang tentang benangnya terputus tetapi tengok apa jadi? Ni nak kena pergi tailor suruh tampal dan jahit tambah. Rupanya mahal bukan satu jaminan tidak akan rosak. 

Tengoklah kedua-dua gambar ni. Kali pertama pakai. 

Paintball Tournament - Tasik Idaman

Marker - Reds Ion

Redz body kit (your choice of red, blue, white, or camo colors), Cam-Lock feed neck, 14" Pepper Stick barrel, flat-line style Redz Trigger, and Grenade ASA.

Picture taken from HERE.

Team Ironmen Drill

These are drills by Ollie Lang's Ironmen Team. I love to share with other paintballerz.

Welcome to the first of Seven Team Ironmen Drills. I've chosen these because I honestly believe they incorporate training in the most important aspects of the game.

Here we go!

Drill No1: One Ball Check In

Get two of the same bunkers, put them 5 yards apart facing each other. Get an opponent and each of you start tucked in behind your bunkers.

Pop out and snap shoot at each other only using one ball at a time.

Every time you shoot you have to check in (tuck in). You can come out post up and save your, shot but once you shoot you must check back in.

Do this with speed and quickness, if you get shot let your opponent know and keep doing it.

Learning to snap shoot accurately and quickly is one of the most important Paintball skills you can learn.

Drill No2 : Mirror Snapping drill

Set your Marker up fully with loader, barrel and tank. Get your self in front of a mirror lined up on the side so that you cannot see yourself. Slowly snap out and start to see when your elbow, loader, gun and mask become exposed. Fine tune this a few times and each time start doing it a little bit faster.

Once you start to snap fast enough, practice pulling the trigger, make sure the gun is off and every time the dark hole at the front of your barrel is pointed at the refection simulate shooting because that's were you would need to be pointed accurately in a real game scenario. I understand that this drill may seem different at first, but learning to snap correctly and quickly is one of the most important skills you need to master.

Drill No 3 : Running and Shooting

Set up a target 5 yards away in front of you, make sure you have about 5 yards distance on each side of you.

Mark with cone or anything that will be visible every five feet left and right of you.

There should be three sections 5 feet, start on the far right marker raise your gun and shoot at the target while you run to the first marker.

Then switch hands and run back to the starting point shooting at the target.

Repeat again but this time run to the second marker, switch hands again running and shooting back to the staring point.

Do it again, but now running to the final marker shooting at the target and do it again.

Running and Gunning with both hands will get you more kills. So learn to do it well!

Drill No 4 : Bunkering

Set up three or four cones behind a series of bunkers.

Start in a bunker shooting a target down field to symbolize putting your opponent in.

Launch from your bunker with your gun in the right hand and always point up barrel aimed right at the bunker where the cone is placed.

Shoot the first one, then immediately point your gun at the next bunker where most likely your opponent would be, then run and shoot the cone and repeat on to the last target.

Start with all the targets (cones) on the left hand side so that you use your right hand and opposite if you are left handed. Then switch the targets to the right and use your left hand.

Repeat numerous times then put two on the right and two on the left and practice switching hands from right to left and left to right while running and shooting.

Don't bunker using just one hand, it looks like you are flailing around and it not effective. Use proper form with both hand aiming down the barrel with the butt of the gun near your chin. Remember that practicing the correct techniques is the only way that it will become second nature when you are in the heat of the battle.

Drill No 5 :Death Alley: Reading the Stream

Stand fields distance away and have your friend or team mate shoot at you.

Have him give you a warning shot as to gauge the ball. Then have him say "live" and take a shot at you. Learn how to read the ball coming your way and dodge it.

Then set up a target in between the two of you. As he takes a shot, dodge it have your gun up and take two shoots at the target, once you shoot, he shoots again.

Being able to read your opponents shots is a valuable skill. This is one of the key aspects of your play that separates the Pros from the amateurs.

Drill No 6 : Two on Two Aggressive

Get four of your teammates, cut off half the field you are playing on usually the opposite side of the snake.

Start in your bunkers, you only have 30 seconds to move down field quickly and aggressively once you shot one player you only have ten seconds to move in on the last, note if it becomes one on one just play it out.

This drill is to master communication. The two should never lose to the one.

This is a great drill because it actually simulates real situations that happen often in games.

Drill No 7 : Attack the Snake

Get 6 of your teammates, this is a 3 on 3 drill using only the snake side of the field. Each team starts like they would at the break out.

It's a two-minute drill and all that matters is getting your player to the snake and obtaining it. If one team maintains control of it for ten seconds the drill is over, if both sides obtain it, it is a wash and one of the players needs to eliminate the other.

The other two players figure out how to protect their teammate and keep the opposition out of the snake.

I hope you have been practicing these drills. They work for us and they really cover the most important aspects of the game. I have dozens more strategies, techniques, tips, secrets and much more. It's a 150 pages packed full of great info.  http://www.Power-Paintball.com

Paintball: How To Start Enjoying The Sport

Took this posting from HERE. 

Posted by herudj on April 8, 2009 at 5:31 am · Under Paintball

This article will take a beginners look at this interesting subject. It will give you the information that you need to know most.Over the last few living, a lot of people have found that the contest of paintball is filled of excitement and is certainly a very fun contest to play. It is one of the most accepted contests that people of all ages can play and has been rising totally accepted ever because. In actuality, there are even paintball competitions being detained all over the world.This contest or sport was discovered by 12 weekend warriors who got a grasp of paintball guns worn by foresters and found that scoreing it at each other with it is a great hobby that is filled of action and considered it as an adult side of the contest of tag.while the paintball is all about scoreing each other, there are totally a lot of reworkings on how paintball is played. Beginners are regularly pleased of the actuality that they will be able to play the contest and score other people but if you want more reworking in the contest, you might want to try the different types of contests that you can play with paintball.We hope that the first part of this article as brought you a lot of much needed information on the subject at hand.For beginners, you will see that they will regularly place to the more principal contests, such as inmate rescue as well as manhunt. As you can see, the name of the contests appealing greatly talk for themselves and are regularly principal. It is fun and very austere to play. However, as you experience live the contest more, you will find manually looking for other reworkings of the contest.One paintball contest that will indeed be fun to play is murderers. Here, you will act as the murderer with a tackle filled of players. However, you will requisite to score only one. mainly, the idea of the contest is where you will be assigned just to score a detail player, while another player will be assigned to score you. So, you will requisite to be gentle when you play this contest as somebody will also be demanding to take you out.The gift hunters paintball contest is also another fun reworking of paintball to play. Here, you will see that there will be gift hunters and one player will be the escapee. Even if this may look unfair, you will see that the so-called escapee in the contest has advantages that can even out the live tackle.For example, the escapee will be able to eliminate someone on the tackle by scoreing them somewhere in the body while the gift hunters are just assigned to score the escapee at a detail part of the body to capture him or her, such as on the arms and legs. In this contest, there will also be a time maximum and the gift hunters should be able to tag or eliminate the escapee inside the time maximum in order to win.apart from the many contests played, you will see that there are also scenario contests. These contests are massive paintball contests that have certain policy for a certain scenario. Scenario contests regularly remake renowned battles or movies that can last numerous living of live where players will requisite to camp out. There will also be large records of players elaborate in the contest. In actuality, some scenario paintball contests can have as greatly as 4000 people participating.As you can see, paintball is a lot of fun to play with. It’s not just about scoreing somebody, but there are different reworkings of the contest that can make it even more fun and exciting.The complexities of the subject matter within this article strive to give you a better look at what this subject is all about.

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