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

[will r]

Originally posted by 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.

i totally agree. take x ball 4 example. people say this is the future of paintball. whether it is or not is another topic. to play x ball for an hour or whatever u definatly need physical fitness. the larger players will eventually be phased out over time as the SPORT evolves. however this doesn' t mean the larger players cannot play ne more it just means WHEN paintball becomes a sport i dont see much larger players featuring in its future.

 

[Tommy Gun-Nexus]

Cowboy..

I also enterered 'Born to win' and got through to the regionals + I totally agree with you mate. It doesnt have anything to do with your chosen 'sport', more like a glorified fitness test!

As soon as i read 'bleep test', there was no way i was going! (I make a fool out of myself enough as it is )

 

[dr.strangelove]

Why is it assumed that all back players are a bunch of fat old men who don't move? I'm 16, and in perfect health, I'd even go so far as to say I"m "fit" and I play back. Could I play front? Absolutely, I'm fast enough, I'm pretty good at it, I just like playing back (nothing more satisfying than watching some poor bloke walk right into the lane you're shooting ) Back players aren't there for no reason, if it weren't for back players, front players would never get to the front. Even if the big old guys are phased out of the sport, there will still be back players.

That being said, that really sucks. Nothing less fun than having something that's "for every sport" turn out to be a fitness test for the mainstream. By the way, with all this talk of sports that require no fitness, how about airsoft shooting? That's an olympic sport. Or bowling? I've seen pro bowlers, alot of them are worse off than the old, fat back players.

 

[Cube]

Originally posted by dr.strangelove
Why is it assumed that all back players are a bunch of fat old men who don't move? I'm 16, and in perfect health, I'd even go so far as to say I"m "fit" and I play back.

I'd like some of these guys to equate Large with Unfit in the presence of someone like Martin Johnstone, or indeed any rugby forward.

Large, relatively quick and very fit from what I've seen.

Just because you're big doesn't mean you're less fit than the scrawny bugger next to you

 

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