BBC Born to win...........as long as you play a real sport

[L J]

Originally posted by Crazy
Cockersrule.
Does that mean that backmen are just a bunch of fat beer guzzling, smoking blokes that happen to be able to throw paint accurately
You can't have it 2 ways.
If we respect other sports then we earn their respect.

Peace.

 

[TOOLE]

it's all true

i wonder why backmen get all the flack on these forums. maybe 'cos us frontmen envy them sitting down and just pulling a trigger fast

 

[Crazy]

I'm not saying anymore as
1. I don't want to threadjack
2. My backman reads this forum

 

[Red_Merkin]

Being an athlete is very important in paintball. Look at the top teams, and they're all athletes. Even Big ol' Bob Long is still in good shape.

We did this drill the other night in practice, where a player needs to move through a series of baracades and shoot a targets. Basically you do a circut of 7 targets, and you run the diameter of he field in the process.
At the end of it most players were exhausted. I know i was gasping for breath. But my point is, if you can play paintball at this pace, and your opponants can't then you've got a distinct advantage. They'll be dead before they see you comming.

The future of Paintball isn't going to be big guys in back stand up baracades, it's going to be little guys (migets maybe ) tearing each other up from close range.

Now i'm a big fella, and i wish i was at least a medium sized fella, so i could get up front there and tear teams to shreds. So us big fellas have got to work around our handicap, and learn to play to 100% of our physical abilities. If we still expect to be compteing in the next few years, it's time to lay off the pies and go to the gym. Unless you just want to participate, in which case paintball for you isn't a sport; it's a hobby.

 

[Crazy]

Midgets?

A new look at bunkering.
1- Big back player
1- midget with Cocker
Midget tossing

We do drills and have started a physical routine and yes the most grumbling came from the back guys. The back guys must also have speed and agility to finish games. Either that or just more cunning

 

[TOOLE]

yeah, respect to the backmen, sources of muh good covering fire.

me, i'm big. 6"3 and 13 stone. very little fat on me. i still manag to play front, but i owe that to my uber high metabolism and the3 fact that when i'm on adrenaline, everything slows down for me.

i have no doubts that almost anyone coukd improve their game with regular exercise.

p.s. the midgets primary gun could just be a howitzer/cannon for them to launch themselves out of, an use a PT extreme!!!!

 

[Bird]

Ok, having been subjected to the circuit drills that Red Merkin was talking about, I can confirm that after one circuit (which lasted about 90 seconds) I was knackered. I consider myself fairly fit but I realised that speed wasn't as good as accurancy. There's no point being able to get to my bunker quickly and intact if I play bugger all part in the rest of the game, is there?!!!

 

[L J]

as im not front, when i run i can go slowly, i bend my knees slightly, this balances youd bory perfectly so u can keep your gun still and fire whilst still having good speed

 

[Chris - Nexus Eclipse]

as a team we dont just do drills we also do physical training too.

but the point of this BBC thing was to caver the whole range of sports.......and i think that kinda fitness competition does tend to favour the traditional sports, football, athletics etc.

will be interesting to see the winner and what sport they play

 

[Crazy]

Scrabble ??

No seriously I think some of the nonmainstream sports like waterpolo and ocean swimming would do well for their endurance levels would be high.
I don't play these myself but I've played a lot of sports from Tabletennis to Pro beach volleyball and respect all sportsmen and women.