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paintballimpact.com / Skill Building / Improve Your Game
10 Ways to Improve Your Game
"Paintball - where everyone gets to play and no one has to benchman." Jerry Collins, Action Pursuit Games.
Anyone who has ever played the sport of paintball knows the sting and ego crash of getting the early elimination as a rookie. Most who play the game, want to play again, and commit to learning the essentials of the game would hope to avoid getting hit if possible, stay in the game as long as they can, and contribute to a team victory Here is a list of 15 ways to improve your game and become a fetter player.
- "Speed Kills. That was a reference to the St. Louis Rams as they went on to victory in the Super Bowl. In reference to paintball, successful players commit to a move, and then work fast. When you decide to go over the top of the bunker, use your speed to make your move before the enemy knows what hit them. If you don't commit to your moves quickly you give your opponents plenty of time to launch a counter-offensive.
- Keep moving. A moving target is harder to hit than a stationary target.
- Create Diversions. Don't make your moves and game strategies obvious to the other team. If you plan to launch an attack from the right side, you may decide to start the game with an overload of players on the left side. And while the opposition gears up for a defense from the left side, you could launch an assault from the right. By disguising your assault strategy, you may divert the attention long enough to ambush an area in enemy territory softly defensed.
- Recruit Floaters for your team. Floaters are designated players that should be able to see the entire playing field. Floaters make sure that the lead men up the field are covered by backup. Floaters keep track of the number of eliminations on each side of the action. Floaters can to a players place in a skirmish line if they have been felled by enemy fire. Floaters can evaluate the entire playing field, and call for an offensive push or a defensive retreat when appropriate.
- If you have a player cornered, then you and at least one other player should concentrate all your fire in that direction until the player is eliminated.
- Never stand in the same line of fire as one of your teammates.
- Mark spots on the field to remember certain landmarks and where you opponents frequently bunker down.
- If you come under attack, stay low as you make your retreat. By running upright, you are likely to get shot in the back.
- Focus much of your fire on some key sweetspots that you studied before the game, or have observed during the paintball match.
- Learn to cut your reaction time to sudden developments on the field. The quicker you react, the less paint you will get on your uniform. If you are committed to the game, you should practice all of these tactics on a regular basis, until the become second nature.
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