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paintballimpact.com / Skill Building / Pro Level
Elevating Your Game To The Pro Level
To get to the professional level at paintball, you must learn all the elements of game tactics, game planning, becoming an expert at your technical game, and learning to play as a team. There is a lot of work ahead of you towards elevating your game to the pro level, and the personal rewards that you will take away from the game will outweigh the financial rewards. With the right combination of will and skill, you should have a great chance at becoming a professional paintball player if you pt in the right amount of time and effort. The article here offers tips towards your education, learning the rules of pro paintball, and implementing your knowledge and running it into success on the field.
"Regardless of what people tell you, there's not much money in pro paintball. We're playing for respect."
- Alex Cadalso, SPLAT Magazine, November 2006
Elevating your paintball game to the pro level may be a daunting task, but it has been done, and therefore it can be done. The first step in making a checklist of all of your strengths and weaknesses, and focusing on one area for improvement at a time. Don't try to make it an overnight success, just take your time, and let the game come to you. The second step is to develop your overall technical game. To improve your technical game, you must pound a lot of hours into technical drills, until they become second nature. Some of these technical drills include snapshooting, field awareness communication, running and gunning.
As these skills are repeated over and over again, they become second nature to the player. These skills must be transformed into muscle memory so that players can react quickly to use them in a professional tournament game.
Once you have become comfortable with your technical game, you must transform these raw skills into drills and practice, and becoming a good teammate. The only way to develop professional skills I to play professionally. You must play as often as you can, play with paintballers that are better than yourself. While career commitment may be important to you and your family, they may hinder your ability to become a professional if you cannot your game to practice weekdays as well as weekends. Again, always play against better players, and don't be afraid to fail. Failing can be a positive if you realize what you did wrong, and you improve your tactics to never make that mistake again. Scrimmage against better players as much as you can, because it is better to make mistakes in practice rather than in the pro game. Find the best players in your area and scrimmage against them. After games, pick the players that made you give away your own position. Try to use very practice or scrimmage as a learning experience.
Try to play as many major tournaments as you can. To get drafted as a professional player, you must have individual and team success in major tournaments. Play in as many major tournaments as you can. If you do become drafted onto a major league team, find a role on the team, and do everything you can to make the team better. It doesn't matter if you are the start point man or just a role player, as long as you do what's best for the team, and the team wins. If you are drafted, exercise patience, as you may spend the first few months on the bench. If you do get called into the game, take advantage of the opportunity, and turn your self into a winning role player.
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