mugging ettiquette?

[Kardasz-Psycho Pimps]

one or two paintballs right between the shoulder blades, watch them addopt the funky chicken postion with their arms- chances are if someone looks like they are going to do the funky chicken there will be a marshall on em straight away.

if you see someone coming to mug you the only thing you can do is shoot them till they stop running if they decide to carry on and mug you, he must be stupid. - the more they try and cheat the more they get hurt.

or one or two paintballs in the mummy daddy button would stop em in their tracks

 

[rancid]

Nah I reckon you're wrong.... keep shooting at them and you'll both get pulled out. Shoot them till you see a break and then stop shooting. Let the geezer light you up... what's the ref going to see? You not shooting, yet your oppos unloading on you AND with a hit.

Then again, you're still dependant on the marshal having a degree of intelligence.

 

[Kevin]

one of our guys mugged someone at the midlands masters uttoxeter event, he went round the bunker, shot low, and hit the guy twice in the spuds.

ouch !!

 

[Inferno]

Originally posted by RePete
Hmmm...As much as I would like to be "nice" when it comes to head banging someone, there is a greater chance of a bounce (Even at that range) on the pack as opposed to the head. The main reasons we target the head area is A) more chance of a break and B) people are much less likely to turn and shoot back. And turn about is fair play. I expect no less from others...

Ouch. I've been shot in the head from 10feet away, and that **** hurts! When I wiped the paint out as I was walking off the field, some of my hair came out with it. I couldn't imagine getting shot in the head while getting bunkered.

 

[Baca Loco]

What the ref is going to see

Originally posted by rancid
Nah I reckon you're wrong.... keep shooting at them and you'll both get pulled out. Shoot them till you see a break and then stop shooting. Let the geezer light you up... what's the ref going to see? You not shooting, yet your oppos unloading on you AND with a hit.

Then again, you're still dependant on the marshal having a degree of intelligence.

is the muggee getting shot because the norm has maybe one ref in the vicinity and the tendency is to watch the muggee and not the mugger and in the half second you've got to point out the other guy is shot your band is off your arm and then you're lucky if he pulls the other guy's, too.
Moo

Inferno--invest in nice knit cap and wear it. I reffed an event last weekend in 90 degree plus weather and the cap was in place all day long.

Repete--you got's to do what you got's to do

Paul--it's not cricket, eh wot?

Alien--players turn because it's been demonstrated time and again to be worth the risk as the vast majority of the time both players are pulled and by doing it you have just prevented the other team from taking control of your place on the field and by reducing their numbers the same as they reduced yours. Until refs are prepared to 1-4-1 blatant infractions it'll keep happening and to add further complications the turning player usually claims not to "know" whether paint broke on his back or not so he's gonna keep playing until a ref pulls his armband. That's why players get shot in the head.

 

[rancid]

Baca mate, as you say, you're going anyway so why not put up the best defence. As I said, you're dependant on the marshal having a brain cell.

If you just want to keep shooting to hurt the geezer then perhaps a punch to the head would be more effective.

 

[Alex Hicks.]

If I wear a hat I steam up.
The first thing you are supposed to do in the rules if you feel a hit is to check yourself or get checked so if a player uses the I don't know if the ball broke he should get 1 for 1nd for returning fire before getting a marshal to check him.
Why do marshals insist on looking at the muggie instead of the mugger, they can't possibly be hit until the last instant before which another member of the muggies team could have hit the mugger and the ref misses it.

 

[Baca Loco]

Just my opinion as to why it happens

With only one pair of eyes able to see only one direction at a time even a smart and decent marshal can't know who marked who when. (Excluding those end of game "easy" mugs)
Action just tends to get a little hot and heavy and play in the grinder particularly requires the co-ordinated pre-arranged effort of two marshals to get it right more often than not. Most of the time I don't think anyone is looking to purposefully hurt anyone. You just do what you think you need to do to win.
Moo

Alex--seems to me marshals (refs) in most sports tend to reward the aggressor. As to the check yourself business the whole thing happens in a second and there's probably 3 or 4 other guys from both sides screaming that one player or the other got shot first or by somebody else first or after, the paint is flying fast and furious, in the blink of an eye both players have paint on them and most of the time the ref pulls em both to avoid complicating his life. It's a situation that doesn't happen all the time or even most times but it does happen fairly frequently.

 

[Collier]

What the ref is going to see

Originally posted by Baca Loco


Paul--it's not cricket, eh wot?

Well I am sorry if I'd rather not be shot up close in the head!! jeez what is wrong with me??

 

[Baca Loco]

Re: What the ref is going to see

Originally posted by Paul_collier


Well I am sorry if I'd rather not be shot up close in the head!! jeez what is wrong with me??

Don't think anbody likes it--oh, wait a minute, I remember this one guy...
Moo