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General Advice For Paintball Beginners

General Advice For Paintball Beginners

It's exciting to discover the world of paintball but when you're new to the sport there will naturally still be a lot to learn. In particular, there are a few mistakes or simple areas of improvement that are common to most beginners. These include:

Under Confidence Lack of confidence lies behind a number of mistakes that paintball beginners tend to make. For a start, beginners are often afraid to stick their head out of cover and see what's going on, thinking that exposing themselves will make them an easy target. In fact, as the one who has actively decided to look, you are likely to see your opponent before they see you if you stick your head out. This gives you the advantage. If beginners are often unwilling to poke a head out, they are certainly unwilling to move. Staying in one 'safe' position will hold you back in several ways. Once your position has been revealed you will be more-or-less a sitting duck. If your position stops being effective or wasn't ideal to begin with you will never correct it. Lastly, it is hard to work effectively with your team and carry out tactics if you are stuck in one place.

 Shooting Problems There are two kinds of shooting problems and beginners tend to encounter one or the other. One is not shooting often enough. There are a few reasons for this. Sometimes it is another confidence issue. Beginners tend to be more accurate than they think they are but they hold back on shooting because they fear they will miss. This also holds them back from improving. Other times, beginners feel that every shot must be a hit or is wasted, so they miss opportunities to lay down covering or intimidating fire. Other beginners shoot too much. This comes partly from not knowing the equipment. Paintball guns are advanced pieces of kit and some have great range and extraordinary accuracy but they are not sniper rifles. When beginners try to nail a distant opponent all they are doing is giving their position away and opening themselves up for a more well-thought-out retaliation.

Teamwork Another thing that beginners sometimes have a problem with is effective teamwork. Like the issues they can experience with shooting, there are two kinds of problem. Sometimes, beginners don't quite appreciate how far paintball is a team game and how much cooperation is needed. Instead, they try to deliver the best individual performance they can - not a bad thing but less important than effective cooperation with teammates.

Other times, this is due to a lack of communication between new players and the rest of their team. At first, beginners stay silent for the perfectly good reason of not making their presence too obvious. However, once they've been spotted they find it hard to get out of that mode. They therefore fail to alert the rest of their team to their plight and get the help they need and fail to communicate with others in a tight spot in order to effectively coordinate the way they handle the situation. Image Sources : Image One = blog.goballistic.co.uk Image Two = www.instructables.com



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