Help with some drills

[teammagma1]

My Team(magma) wants to start playing tourneys. Does anyone know any good drills to help us prepare for them. Thank you!

[Savior]

Um, its still paintball, just play paintball? :)

[Thor the Mighty]

um, try pop shooting, and have a friend and you just have a shoot out

that works

[FSU Paintball]

Whatever you do, DON'T do what these guys did!

http://krts.freeservers.com/custom.html

Bar none, that is the FREAKIEST military paintball site I've ever seen. Do you see their "sniper training drills?" The ones that comprise of everyone sitting perfectly still for a full hour! I actually have this site labeled as "Freaky military paintball site" in my bookmarks. Browse this site, it's incredible in so many ways that I don't want to talk about.


Gee, I hope nobody on this forum is from that team.




Anyways, back to real drills.
If you have a five man team, here's a good way to set it up. 2 tape runners (the guys that run up the sides), 1 man that backs up each tape runner, and a guy in the middle that covers everyone. At the break, the cover man stands and provides fire, while the other guys run like hell.


Everyone on the left side of the field should ALWAYS fire right, and everyone on the right should fire left. This way you can cover each other very easily, and it sets up better lines of fire. The other team usually doesn't expect that type of combat, either. The guy in the middle fires at anything that moves.

Come up with codes, too. If you get the first kill of the game, say "1 k, 1 k!!" This tells your teammates that the first guy is out. When the second guy gets shot out, say "2k" and so forth.
Come up with a grid layout for the field. Imagine the field as a giant "Battleship" game. One section will be A1, then A2, A3, B1, B2, B3, etc. This way, you can tell your teammates exactly where the other guys are.
When you're reloading, shout out a color. Just say "purple" or "red" or whatever.
Also, work on your hand signals. Waving your hand over your head means, "Cover me, I'm about to move." Pointing at your teammate and pointing forward tells them to move up. Also, make sure you always keep in verbal communication. Talk about anything, just keep talking. You need to know what's going on. Talk about your girlfriend, or what you had for breakfast, ANYTHING as long as it keeps you communicating with your teammates.

Just practice your formations, and make SURE you practice shooting out of unusual posititions, especially out of different sides of your bunker.

[Guesswho?]

All i have to say is nice reply, the longest i have ever seen!

[teammagma1]

thank you, anyone else have suggestions?

[FSU Paintball]

Thanx :D I learned all of that from Nick Civitello, an amateur player (amateur means GOOD in paintball, if you didn't know) who was on the FSU team last year.