Paintball - Skill or Speed?

[Robbo]

I can't believe I am reading this crap !

Any amateur team from now would anhiliate the Preds of old, no argument !!!
The skill levels required to play now are way in advance of what was reqiured before.

 

[sjt19]

Originally posted by rancid
Snap shooting, - clear line of sight, known position, and there's less than 1% of players that can do it anyway.

Does that not mean therefore that it is something that players need skill to do?

sam

 

[duffistuta]

At Hellingley or Kooh Doow?

 

[PaintballBudgie]

I have seen teams playing with Inferno's beat teams playing with IR3's. They don't shoot as fast.

Obviously a little more to it than just firepower. Firepower is good.

 

[Parksy]

If it was all about speed then I would be an uber paintballer with my IR3... instead I am indeed a rank amateur with a bling bling marker that can fire really fast

You can fire 100 paintballs and come no where near what your aiming at, and have someone snapshoot one ball at you from there inferno field and gogg you!!

Speed helps when keeping people pinned down or when trying to sweetspot, but it ain't a substitute for skill

Dave

 

[Robbo]

Nudge...I see you have moved !!!!!!!

Sorry- couldn't resist it ......(work it out)

Answers on a postcard

 

[Collier]

Originally posted by rancid
Actually, let's address em one at a time.... but remember, none of these were invented in the last five years.

now I never said they didn't use these skills in the woods did I??

Originally posted by ||Ices||
Only noobs have no skill.

Take Paul for instance, all that shootin none of that hittin.

Sorry what team do you play on??

Paul.

 

[ALEX JEYES]

So mr rancid your telling me that you can shoot the side of a hopper the other side of a field whilst running to your bunker!!! that you can figure out every angle on a sup air field and walk up to the other team and bunker them!! that you can finish a 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 on 1 situation. I have seen teams and idividuals do this and it requires the upmost respect for the time and training they have put in to learn these skills. Yes playing in the woods used to be a technical game but it was also boring ! this is the new era of paintball which sounds to me like you dont want to belong to.

 

[duffistuta]

Alex

Why don't you learn some manners?

 

[ALEX JEYES]

sorry dad.