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Paintball Tips & Tactics - Articles on Paintball Strategies
Learn from the best! Expert paintballers share their advanced paint ball strategies, tips and game tactics. pbreview has teamed up with the pro paintballers of Action Pursuit Games magazine, the world's leading paintball magazine, to share new paintball tips, tactics and strategies. Learn what paintball strategies work and how to defend against them. Articles Related To: Tips, Tactics & Strategies
Tourney paintball is big, there is no doubt. Even so, 70% of paintball is still played in the woods. So, why do so many wear tourney paintball gear in the woods? It just doesn't work, folks. If you're playing paintball I the woods, you want to blend in with your surroundings as much as you can. Here are some paintball apparel tips for those who want to become a ghost in the woods.
The number one thing that tells me I'm looking at a newbie or an advanced player is how the player uses bunkers. Your bunker is a tool, like your marker. If you use your bunker effectively, you will excel. If you don't, it will hinder your game. How do you properly play your bunker? What strategy is involved? How close should you play to your bunker?
The tape (the outside playing edge of the paintball field) is typically critical to any game. If you lose control of either tape, you will find your opposition at your back and your paintball game trashed as they run the fallen tape and grab ground. How do you organize your front and mid-tape players? How can leapfrogging help you to manage your tape more effectively? Good tape strategy will lead to team success on the paintball field.
You're in a paintball tournament when one of your teammates gets taken out from a position "in front of yours". Quick thinking and knowledge of paintball will guide your movements, or lack thereof. Whether you should fill his position depends on several things. Well, was your buddy doing any good up there? Is it a center flag game and if so, is his spot key to pulling the flag, or defending against a flag pull attempt?
Delta Paintball Team strives to live up to its motto: To be the best. What makes this paintball team click, and how did it grow into its leading role today? Josh Foote, Major General of the Delta Paintball Team, New Jersey division leader Jeffrey Swaim, and the team's head forum administrator Gary Cooper, offer a look inside this leading scenario paintball team.
The paintball world has its own training ground: Ronn Stern's signature camps. Player from across the nation converge at the widely-held paintball training camps to learn about equipment, strategy, and tactics. APG attended the July 2004 camp at Skirmish USA in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. Players from across the country flew, drove, and hitched rides to converge on a hotel several minutes from the world class facility. Read about the week APG experienced at paintball camp!
The best part of paintball is you don't need athletic ability. Anyone can play. With a national focus on losing weight and getting fit, paintball can find ways to expand. What is your school, or your kids' school, doing to make fitness fun? Ask the school why not start a paintball program? Parents and kids can support each other's efforts to take off those extra pounds. Needless to say, the slimmer a paintball player is, the smaller a target he becomes.
Do you believe your marker will make you King of the Game in paintball? Many players believe just that. Or do you think it's the player, not the marker itself, that makes you King? Being king of your game is a combination of the two. What's the right balance between the payer and the paintball equipment in a paintball game?
Paintball problems: wiping on the field. Wiping hits is paintball cheating at its most fundamental. How do you catch wipers, besides obviously seeing them wipe? You must stop paintball players from wiping in the first place! While impossible to stop completely, if you take away the opportunity to wipe in most situations, then wiping will become tougher to pull off, and essentially will happen less often.
Inflatable paintball bunkers are one of the greatest inventions. They've definitely changed the sport of paintball for the better. A paintball tournament's just not a tournament any more unless it's played on a field full of these multicolored balloons. Air ball bunkers come with their own set of pros and cons, however, and to play them effectively can be a little tricky. Read on to learn about bunker downsides, advantages, and tips for playing a pro bunker game!
When you're a young paintball player, good advice is hard to come by. Read this month's Young Guns report to see what's going on in the younger side of the paintball sport. Bunker questions? Got problems with your paintball marker? Who runs the flag in? How do you make your paintball gear look good? Which paintball field should we play?
The run-through move in paintball is One of the most impressive and game changing moves out there. Run throughs are not just performed without practice. It takes know-how, experience, and timing to pull them off effectively in a paintball game. How do I learn more about doing run-throughs effectively?
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