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Common Newbie Mistakes
There are a number of rookie mistakes that will alert veteran players to your newbie status. By learning about these mistakes, you will stay in games longer and gain the respect of your more experienced peers. This article lists a number of common newbie mistakes, and how to avoid them.
Be patient, and let the game come to you. Some beginners are so enthusiastic about demonstrating their bravado and bravery to teammates that they charge down the center of the field, kamikaze style. Or newbies may let their emotions get the best of them, and run across the open field with reckless abandon. These type of kamikaze charges rarely produce successful results, and will often get you covered in paint. If you do decide to make a charge towards the enemy or the enemy flag, make sure that you have teammates close by, offering you cover. Also, have a good escape option available if you run into overwhelming enemy fire.
Seasoned paintball players are skilled at never showing their hand, and not giving up. A common newbie mistake is to give up after running out of paint. Players out of paint can still be valuable on the field. Your enemy may still think that you are armed and dangerous. You may still draw the gaze of the enemy eye away from a teammate making a run at the enemy flag.
Some newbies make themselves a juicy target by staying in the same place for too long. Moving targets are more difficult to hit. Don't stay in the same spot too long. If you come out of the bunker to take a shot at the enemy move quickly, shoot quickly, and then retreat back into cover. If you think that the enemy spotted you as you came out of the bunker, move to another area before taking the next shot. The longer you stay in the same place, the more you will resemble a duck in a shooting gallery.
Often, newbies don't take the time to learn about their fellow paintball teammates. The better the repaired you establish with your teammates, the more attuned you will become with each others strengths and weaknesses and be able to position each other on the field accordingly. Study your teammates appearance and uniform, and remember it so that you don't blow away one of your own in a game. Meet with all of your team members, learn their names, and develop a set of signals so that you will know where each other are at all times. One common newbie mistake is to eliminate one of their own when mistaking them for the enemy. This will not make you any friends that day.
One move that newbies often learn the hard way is to get up and put their marker in the air as soon as they have been hit. Unless a player has given an unambiguous signal to the ref that they have been eliminated, opposing players will continue to shoot at him.
It is OK to track a single target as long as you are aware of everything else going on around you. Some players experience a phenomenon commonly referred to as tunnel vision. Tunnel vision means focusing on one single area and becoming less sensitive to other events around him. If you focus too intensely on one single direction, you may not notice the enemy creeping up from the side of you.
Paintball Impact includes a directory for paintball fields all around the United States. Some great fields in the northeastern US include P & L paintball in North Easton, Massachusetts, P6 Extreme West in Keene, New Hampshire, Ben Franklin Variety in Absecon, New Jersey, and Brookside Paintball in Belgrade, Maine.
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