Hands up...

[Weakest Link]

I've just been reading a paintball mag with pictures of pro competitions in it. All pictures that feature players running, tend to show them with their hands over their faces shielding their goggles. Is this just to reduce the chance that the balls will break?

 

[L J]

yeah, also....controversial, but if they get hit there...all they do is move their hand down and wipe off an trousers leg etc....

 

[Mak D - Nexus Eclipse]

yeah when if your a front player and need to make a vital bunka off the bat, then comin in to it hot, you would raise your hand over ur mask. Now if a ball hits ur mask then that s it bam .......straight out the game, but if a ball breaks on ur hand all that s needed is to slide down on the floor and let the grass take it off ur glove. Not the most moral thing to do but that is the reason why it happens, and also there is more chance of a ball bouncin off ur hand than off ur mask


Daddy Mak - tellin it like it is

 

[Cook$]

seen the hand on the hopper trick aswell, but that looks so stupid i aint ever gonna try it.......

 

[Robinator]

yeah i was shown that last training...

a novel idea but then if you are coming over the top of your bunker and holding your hopper what's gonna stop them from just shooting you in the goggles instead...

 

[Weakest Link]

aah!

It all seems a bit cheeky. Its a shame that people will actually wipe themselves.

 

[Robinator]

sad but true...

unless you have equal number/more reffs on the field than there are players then there will always be oppertunities to take advantage of the situation...

 

[kidzero]

the original idea was that balls wont break on your hand as easy as they would on your mask, the wiping was added later*g*. stuff like that could be the edge when you are a frontplayer. i mean it could be the thing between get shot or not, just like always hold your marker behind your body when running on the tape(when you are breaking to a bunker on the left tape, hold marker in the left hand and the other way round) cause balls that hit you might bounce, if they hit your marker they wont.

 

[Mak D - Nexus Eclipse]

aah!

Originally posted by Weakest Link
It all seems a bit cheeky. Its a shame that people will actually wipe themselves.

yeah it is a shame, but we have all done it and those who havn t will do it.

It's that split second when you feel the ball burst and straight away you think should i get up?.......or keep playing? Now obviously wot game ur playin effects ur thinkin for example the finals in the World Cup, if i could get away with one wee sly wipe then ......... u kno wot i mean!


mak D

 

[Weakest Link]

Re: aah!

Yeah, I suppose you're right but if I ever saw someone do it, I'd be a bit mad. Its rare enough that I get to hit someone anyway!