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Snap Shooting - Snapshooting
Snapshooting is the practice of shooting out of your bunker, lining up a quick shot, and then retreating back into cover quickly. Remember that things happen very quickly on the paintball field and the more your keep yourself out of harms way, the greater chance you have of survival. To succeed on the paintball field, you must have paintball quickness, and you must play tight. You must be able to pop in and out of bunkers quickly to survive in the game. There are snipers all around, just itching to take a shot at someone that leaves themselves vulnerable.
Snapshooting is an excellent skill to learn and practice. Snap shooting can be practiced alone, or on one on one or two on two drills. When you become proficient in the skill of snapshooting, you will know how to hold your marker correctly, line up a shot, pop out from your bunker, fire off four or five precise shots, and then retreat to your bunker quickly. If you perform this task fast enough, you may still have a safe place to shoot again if you did not give away your position.
It is important to learn how to maintain a balance of your body as you move during snap shooting practice. The more balanced you are when lining up a shot, the quicker you will get your shots off and be able to retreat back to a safe area. If you snap out of your bunker while out of balance, you may not fire off accurate shots, and it may take longer to retreat back to a safe haven.
Snapshooting requires a myriad of skills that a paintball player must employ to be successful. First, a player must have the ability to take an accurate shot. He must have the necessary sniper skills to make an accurate hit in a very short period of time. Remember, you should come out of your bunker and retreat back in a matter of seconds, even less if possible. So a skilled snapshooting player only has a few shots to fire, and he should have the skill to make these shots count. Also a player needs to be athletic enough to use rise from any position to a shooting stance quickly. That means that a player must practice this skill from the crawling, standing, kneeling, a crouching position. When practicing, find a way to snap to a standing position and being able to line up a shot with your paintball gun.
There are a number of key moves you should focus on during your snap shooting exercises. First, you must practice this drill from a number of body positions and from a variety of different bunkers. By practicing this variety you should be prepared for whatever environment you have to work with in game action. You have to be able to move quickly, even from a lying down position. Also, you should learn to be ambidextrous. You should learn to shoot using either hand. There will be times when you may be in a bunker with limited space and one of our arms may be constricted.
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