Which is also why 45 grips are CRAP - and all the gun manufacturers are crazy to keep on making guns with them
Nick
Drop Forwards....WHAT THE ABSOLUTE F**K???
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Nick
drop fowards... DO THEY ROCK OR WHAT?!
In the beginning of last year i admit was one that had to take it on the chin and altered my setup from a mini drop to a direct rail and after a few trainings of feeling a little out of place it became comfy and now my posture with a marker is 100x better, i can run and shoot effectively, and my snap shooting no longer looks like struddling boar in a headlock coming out the side of a bunker..
A good number of Players are stubbon and won't be told, which i think is where their problem lies, it sthe reason they wont change their set up, the reason they won't put effort into trying new things.. in theory this might even effect their rate of progresing as a player, because "they know best"....
I mght be going a little far into it for a piece of alluminium hanging off the bottom of your gun, but as a few have said this has been a ongoing debate, Im sure the likes of Fish are not ranting to boost rail sales, they are doing it because players look up to team such as Nexus and the rail theory is generally a proven technique, it certainly is on my behalf anyhow.
Im with Fish on this, although i personally wouldn't have taken such a mussolini like aproach, i don't dispute a word of it....
In the beginning of last year i admit was one that had to take it on the chin and altered my setup from a mini drop to a direct rail and after a few trainings of feeling a little out of place it became comfy and now my posture with a marker is 100x better, i can run and shoot effectively, and my snap shooting no longer looks like struddling boar in a headlock coming out the side of a bunker..
A good number of Players are stubbon and won't be told, which i think is where their problem lies, it sthe reason they wont change their set up, the reason they won't put effort into trying new things.. in theory this might even effect their rate of progresing as a player, because "they know best"....
I mght be going a little far into it for a piece of alluminium hanging off the bottom of your gun, but as a few have said this has been a ongoing debate, Im sure the likes of Fish are not ranting to boost rail sales, they are doing it because players look up to team such as Nexus and the rail theory is generally a proven technique, it certainly is on my behalf anyhow.
Diablo, the essence of what you say is almost a cliché in that a lot of people can say it, and under a lot of circumstances it could be true, but not this one I'm afraid.
There is a requirement (or should be) in paintball to play tight and shoot accurately, that's a given...if you question this then the whole stack of paintball cards comes crashing down.
That said, the human body has general limitations in that the vast majority have quite limited variances.
I mean, we don't have people with arms one foot long and others 6 foot long and so we can look at this whole issue of shooting your marker with an extremely wide catchment.
People shoot more accurately when the marker is placed in front of them and the nearer the working eye line the better.
The extension of that forwardness (for want of a better word) also has limitations, if it goes too far away from your body then you run the risk compromising your tightness (for want of a better word) and if you bring it up too close to your body and there is no real forward extension then you compromise your accuracy.
And so there is a happy medium to be struck here and that happy medium is generally indicated by what 'feels' most comfortable.
Of course there are some people out there who may well feel that a drop forward is more comfortable because they have some genetic mal-expression of some posture gene going on but this is where common sense has to come into play because in this case, you cannot compromise effectiveness because of comfort.
Forget looking cool, forget any fads, just rely on some common sense and if you need to work it out for yourself just do the following exercise, stand there with your marker, push it as far away from you as possible and practice shooting.
try to work out what limitations are then working against you.
Do the same with your marker tucked up under your chin like some drop forwards have you do and repeat the self-examination.
You should easily work out that somewhere in between those two extremes is the optimum set up and generally speaking the one in between that's most comfortable is where it's at.
Actually - yes it DOES mean exactly that - unless you are especially physically challenged
Pros come in all shapes and sizes dude - and when they have ALL come to the same conclusion - there is probably something to it - don't you think?
You MIGHT think you got better performance with your specific set of circumstances, if you played in wooden clogs.... but I would respectfully venture the guess that you would be wrong
Nick
Picking a Nit
Nick, Nick, Nick--your photo example would be a better exemplar if his gun was higher and he wasn't obviously putting his weight on his outside leg. C'mon.
Nick, Nick, Nick--your photo example would be a better exemplar if his gun was higher and he wasn't obviously putting his weight on his outside leg. C'mon.
Aha constructive answers, that prove my point that most pro-ballers are really nice guys and usually helpful.
Ok nick & robbo my stance may be all wrong and i may be a crap player, but it's the set up that works for me, i know scars says you get used to it but i just dont seem to be able too.
(i'd just like to point out that i'm "not" using a big f**k off drop like those flame jobbies, but a compact CP one)
I still say fi$h is a numpty tho !
Ok nick & robbo my stance may be all wrong and i may be a crap player, but it's the set up that works for me, i know scars says you get used to it but i just dont seem to be able too.
(i'd just like to point out that i'm "not" using a big f**k off drop like those flame jobbies, but a compact CP one)
I still say fi$h is a numpty tho !