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Paintball X-Treme - Paintball Beginner Basics
Paintball is one of the fastest growing sports in the United States and around the world. Though paintball started out as paintball scrimmages between friends, the sport has grown in size and sophistication, with universal rules and terminology understood by all veteran paintball players. To better understand the game of paintball, there are some terms and names to know and recognize for the day when you play in your first game or tournament.
Out: There are a few similar phrases of the word Out, including "I'm hit", or "Good Shot", "Coming Out", or "Dead Man". This is a verbal signal that you have been hit and are no longer involved with the game competition. Your proclamation of being out is usually confirmed with the non verbal signal where you raise your arm and paint gun in the air. Other signals to show that you are out of the game competition are putting on an orange vest, putting a white cloth over the end of the muzzle, and inserting a barrel plug into the muzzle of your marker.
Stop Shooting: This is a call to stop shooting to let your opponents know that you are no longer a target. Once a player has announced himself/herself out, they are no longer to be shot at. It is bad sportsmanship to keep shooting at someone that has been called out. In some tournament play or on a paintball field, a player shooting at a "dead player many be eliminated from the game.
Bounced: The verbal signal bounced may be called by a player that is hit by a paintball, but where the ball didn't explode. Some variations of this event include the terms "Bounced", "Didn't Break" or "Splat". This verbal signal is considered good sportsmanship.
If you are hit with a paintball, check your body and gun for paintball splatter. A common rookie mistake is to call yourself Out of the game, one to realize that your hit was not a fatal shot. In many paintball circles, a signal of Out, cannot be taken back, and you must leave the game.
If you are hit with a paintball but the pellet does not break, you are still in the game.
Paintcheck: An experienced paintball player will call "Paintcheck on a player suspected of being hit but not calling himself out. This is a call in a refereed paintball game where the ref must check the suspected player for impact splatter. Good sportsmanship in this instance is for the player calling Paintcheck to point out the suspect's location. It is bad sportsmanship to use the referee to locate the player. If a referee suspects a player calling for Paintcheck just to find out where the player is, then he can eliminate him/her for the game.
Out is Out: You will not be joining your paintball teammates on their trip to the Promised Land once you have called yourself out. When you call yourself out, you must leave the paintball field.
Dead Man's Walk: This tactic is legal in some paintball fields and tournaments and illegal in others. This is a tactic where a player will pretend to start walking off the paintball field as if out, but is really still in the game.
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