How to Become a Good Paintballer

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How to Become a Good Paintballer

1. Make sure you know the weight of your own equipment. Your equipment should not be too bulky or heavy, as this will put you at a great disadvantage on the field.

2. To learn the basics you will need to learn "marker" positioning. First put on your mask (to make it more realistic). You can use a little laser pointer taped to the barrel of the marker to represent were you would hit if you fired a paintball. Now, with the pointer on and the mask on, put it into firing position. Learn that position. If you can, (put the marker barrel-down) and try to estimate were the shot would hit before you even bring up your marker. Quickly bring up your marker into firing position. Practice this for a while, and then without the laser pointer.

 3. Even expensive paintball guns can have bad firing rates(you can fix that). Take your middle and index finger and place them in the air as if they were a pair of scissors. Position your thumb straight and pinkie and ring finger like you're holding a gun. Take your middle and index fingers and place them on the trigger. Start pulling the trigger slowly back and forth, then get faster and faster. This is called "walking the trigger". You will have to put more pressure on those fingers in a real marker trigger. Try this out with different guns, and find the one that you can fire with the fastest. There are market triggers available for almost all guns. (This will only work for markers with a "double trigger." That is, a trigger that has room for two fingers.) This technique is also called "spray and pray" since you are not usually concerned with accuracy; only with getting a lot of paint into the air quickly.

 4. Running and shooting: not much to say here; it's mandatory in paintball. With the laser pointer, put the gun into firing position. Then aim the laser pointer at a wall inside your house. Try to keep the laser on the wall steady as you go from walk, jog, to running. You will feel comfortable after a while.

 5. Master the art of bunkering. When you're in a three-on-three man match, get into a bunker! When you find your man, start firing. After you do get your man, make sure he is the only threat shooting at you. Keep him in or let him run out of paint then run towards him, fire off a couple rounds and make sure you hit him. You can try to bunker him when he is least supecting it or have your teammates pin him down, then bunker him.

 6. Learn how to snapshoot (this is where you are in a gun fight and you pop out of a bunker just enough to get some shots off and go back in). Watch your position. One way to perfect your shapshooting is to practice in front of a mirror. Get behind an object in front of the mirror and practice making accurate shots by popping out of the object, or as called, bunker.

 7. Be prepared to reload in a gunfight. Make sure you have paintball pods in your harness. Relay information to your teammate(yell "reloading, COVER ME!"); "Cover me" is the key phrase. Now open your hopper. Keep a finger on the trigger, take a pod out then pop the top of the pod, and pour in the paint into the gun. Throw your pod on the ground(don't worry, you will get them back), close the hopper and start firing. You may not want to yell "reloading" because the other team will hear as well, and try to bunker you. Practice reloading and you won't have to ask your team to cover you.

 8. In speedball, most parks will make you put your barrel or gun on the dead box (the place you go behind or in when you're hit), then they will say 3,2,1 real fast or normal take off to your position front, middle or back. Start firing now.

 9. Position info. There are 3 main positions in speedball: front, middle, and back.

          * The Front man is the one who relays information about what is going on to the middle and looks for windows or openings to bunker or take out a player.

          * The middle player relays the info from the front to the back. they shoot a lot of paint, so they should have a good hopper and be great snapshooters.

          * Back men shoot a lot of paint to try to get men out and help out with the openings for the front man.

10. Walk the field and have a game plan.

11. In woodsball, sometimes called recball, strategy and communication are key. Have a strategy and communicate with your teammates. Two of anything beats a single ace.

12. Go have fun out there paintballing.

Have fun and see you soon....!!

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