Originally posted by Red_Merkin
Nudge,
Players have swapped one set of skills for another set of skills. In my opinion, players today have much stronger skills than in the old days. It's hard to say what would happen if you 'time warped' a top team back to 1990, and dropped them into an old skool woodland game, but i believe that if you took a team from back then and put them onto an air ball field today, they would get smoked.
-and-
Originally posted by TJ Lambini
You gotta agree tha ring is a litle different though... I think everyone knows that Dynasty would murderize the classic All As/Ironmen/Aftershocks on concept fields, but would they win on an old style woods field d'ya think?
It's not just a matter of time passing, folks. It's a matter of being used to the surroundings. If you dropped a team from 94 into an arena, YES they'd be lost. Becasue they wouldn't know or understand how to play it. Same thing with dropping a team like Dynasty into the woods. They wouldn't get it, at first, but they'd pick it up.
What I think a lot of people are forgetting is that the "Classic" teams are still playing. All A's, Ironmen (whichever flavor you like), and so on. Except they were 10 years YONGER then.
All that's really happened in the last 10 years is the firepower upped, that's really about it. I know Robbo will jump on me but I really don't care. Paintball has not signifigantly changed in the last 10 years EXCEPT for firepower. We still play the same style of game, just in a new setting and with guns that shoot more paint faster and more efficiently. (Sit and shoot, and if you can move up, you move up.) Because of the firepower, techniques became more refined. Stances changed, methods of doing hte 'break', that all evolved.
But, for the most part, it's the same game. I've got footage from '94 World Cup in the woods aired on ESPN, I compare it to OLN's footage of World Cup '03, except for the windowdressing (clothing, air bunkers, flashy gear) it hasn't changed. Guys screaming positions, front guys crawling and moving, back guys throwin' the paint, dudes controlling angles by making the key bunkers, guys crashing into the front 45's, and teams controlling the angles on the field being the most important aspect to the game. The only diffrence is the wildcard of being able to crawl in the woods and use camo effectively. That's really it. Same game, one part stripped.
Well, that and the field was larger too, I mean it took a long time to sprint from one end to the other if you were fast. (I've got footage of Billy Gardner hauling ass from his 35 to the other flag, and the run takes him easily 30 seconds...)
My point is that if you took any team from "back in the day", got them up to speed wiht a modern gun, and gave them a week on an airball field, they'd still whup ass. Just like if you took a modern team, put them "Bakc in the day", gave them equipment the top teams used, and said "Sick 'em", they'd whup ass too. Teamwork, and the ability to work together, and the ability to pick a field apart for angles doesn't change because of technology.
-Tyger
(who knows he'll be accused of bashing tourney guys again becasue it makes 'yall feel better, but I'm not. Just taking the last 10 years of "progress" and putting it into persepective....)
