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Longballing
Longballing is the practice of shooting at a target that is out of the players range. One of the things that is first taught to newbie paintball players is to shoot and be aggressive, but longballing and wasting paint does not really benefit players. Hosers who like to spray paint everywhere are generally considered to be goofballs and not taken really seriously by established teams. Longballing is usually the mark of an inexperienced player. One of the drawbacks to Longballing is that you will need to fill your hopper sooner, taking away the amount of time you will be an effective competitor on the field. As you are loading your hopper, you will be an unarmed man, and you will not be able to fight back if someone is coming at you and bunkering you. The best tactic to use is conserving your ammunition, and taking high percentage shots so that you will not have to reload your hopper in the middle of the game. The EVLution II Y-Board from Viewloader, Black Market Dark Series UL from Warped Sportz, and 200 Hopper from PMI are among the many great hoppers that are available for purchase.
Players are generally instructed to not shoot long in paintball camp and on the paintball fields. In order to avoid making the Longballing mistake, players will practice firing paintballs at the shooting range or get to know what their machine is capable of overtime. Players can also learn what they are capable of by playing the game. In the rec game Fugitive, one player is armed with a stop gun or no gun at all and must evade enemy fire for an entire game. The objective of the game is to stay alive until the time expires. The fugitive in the game can run or hide in any section of the field as long as they stay within the boundary lines. The fugitive is permitted to wear camouflage uniform while the rest of the players are required to wear orange vests. In some fugitive games, players are allowed to wear a Ghillie suit. These games are usually played in a large woods field where the fugitive have a lot of places to hide and avoid being detected. The game is over if the fugitive is hit. The bigger the field is, the more people are allowed to hunt the fugitive. Usually this game has two to five players as many more than that would give the hunters too much of an advantage. In some versions of the fugitive game, the player must try to survive until time expires. In other versions of the game, the fugitive must make it to one of two or more exit points on the field without getting eliminated. This game usually has more than one exit point to prevent camping.
Paintball games like fugitive are good exercises to teach players how to conserve paint and avoid longballing. Paintball fields such as fugitive have been enjoyed on fields like Paintball Sportsland in Frederick Maryland and Maximus paintball in Worland Wyoming. Players are taught to not longball and to not be a hoser.
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