Scholastic Paintball
- Thread starter Dskize
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come to the quarters academy 
lol
im in the same boat as u dkzie. ive always wondered whats the best way to learn but the only thing ive found is to practice, play, then ask where you went wrong to the player who shot you or a spectator. there are too many variables in a game to write a book really if you think about it. each game is unique
lolim in the same boat as u dkzie. ive always wondered whats the best way to learn but the only thing ive found is to practice, play, then ask where you went wrong to the player who shot you or a spectator. there are too many variables in a game to write a book really if you think about it. each game is unique
Get Greg Hastings Max'd mate...then put yourself up on ur own or with an amateur team against a team like joy division or xsv, study the field carefully on break out manager and then decide where u and ur teamates are goin to zone up, its challenging but pretty fun, and to be fair iv learnt a lot from just playing the game and.....'watching your zone'!!
i agree with Mario dont worry about it just play the game, the more you play/practise/drill the better you get simple as, that is about all you can do as an individual.
As a team however you need to study the field layouts and your oposition.
stuart
As a team however you need to study the field layouts and your oposition.
stuart
There's probably only about 5 people in the world of Paintball who could write a coherent account of understanding Paintball as it is played..none of them have done so yet.
Lots of people think they know but in reality they don't understand the subject matter at all.
They make the mistake of thinking that playing well means understanding well.
Many F1 drivers can drive fast but I wonder how many understand the mechanics / electro mechanics and firmware/ software that makes that drive so effiicient...hardly any.
A lot of people can spot a good player and put him into a team, Renick Miller did this for years with Aftershock and they were the most successful team of all time in winning 6 world cups and yet Renick self admittedly knew fack all about Paintball, he just recognised great players and put them in his team.
What you look for is not out there in book form, and even in magazines there's a lot of bull****, and even worse at a local level when some schmuck pipes up and says 'I'll tell you how to do it', it's more than likely, he knows fack all and just likes to listen to his own voice.
But the rocket launcer would be greatOriginally posted by Dskize
and you know what - i used to play quake 3 all the time and it hasn't helped me one bit
People practice all the correct stuff then dont put it to the right use that is a problem ,the Russians would win all the time if it was solely down to practice.
Right at the top of a lot of team sports there are times spent in the classroom and in classrooms you have books and reading so yeah why not books / articles / a thesis could be written on it though as robbo said it would help more if people thought about it a little more themselves and also who writes it.
Right at the top of a lot of team sports there are times spent in the classroom and in classrooms you have books and reading so yeah why not books / articles / a thesis could be written on it though as robbo said it would help more if people thought about it a little more themselves and also who writes it.
The science of Paintball has yet to develop whereby a definitive work can be produced as to tactics, techniques etc if in fact this is achievable anyway.
Other sports, much better developed sports such as soccer have yet to give rise to any definitive works but what we can say is this, the technical side of Paintball is better nailed in that we can back up proposed techniques with a real understanding of the why's and wherefore's.
Tactical understanding is more elusive because it is sometimes difficult to disentangle its true relevance because the technical side of the game is so dominant in its determinism of game direction.
We can have general rules that apply to covering flanks, back bunker positions, firing lanes, dominant bunker play etc but these are always overlaid onto a technical base that is much more significant.
This relationship that has them inextricably linked lies at the very heart of understanding the real difficulty of nailing tactical understanding and I'm afraid i might be like chasing rainbows if ever we hope to achieve a full understanding.
But for me, that makes the game even more interesting
Other sports, much better developed sports such as soccer have yet to give rise to any definitive works but what we can say is this, the technical side of Paintball is better nailed in that we can back up proposed techniques with a real understanding of the why's and wherefore's.
Tactical understanding is more elusive because it is sometimes difficult to disentangle its true relevance because the technical side of the game is so dominant in its determinism of game direction.
We can have general rules that apply to covering flanks, back bunker positions, firing lanes, dominant bunker play etc but these are always overlaid onto a technical base that is much more significant.
This relationship that has them inextricably linked lies at the very heart of understanding the real difficulty of nailing tactical understanding and I'm afraid i might be like chasing rainbows if ever we hope to achieve a full understanding.
But for me, that makes the game even more interesting
hes got a good point. you can learn all you want. read books, watch people play, watch dvds, but if you cant take advantage of the situation by using things youve learnt, then your screwed really
its just as mental as it is physical