Post by Shrek on Dec 25, 2008 5:15:46 GMT -8
One of my biggest pet peeves when I play the game is getting stalled in the middle of a firefight. This happens far to often in scenario games. You and your team make a mad rush in blaze of glory (a beautiful sight) using propper movement techniques and cover fire. That's when it happens...the unthinkable. Your buddy gets tagged and the momentum that you built up is lost. Why? This is not a phenomenom unique to paintball. This also happens in real live combat. But it happens for different reasons. In combat the soldiers see their buddy go down and feel fear rises up inside them. They then forfeit the momentum in order to avoid what they think will be their own inevitable demise. In paintball the main reason is because the players fail to do two things that are vital in a situation like this. Oh, there is an element fear, and that causes them to forget to move and communicate. The three things that are vital in a firefight is the ability to shoot, to move, and to communicate. For some reason this becomes a problem when the paint starts flying. We can shoot all day long, but for some reason when the paint starts flying moving our feet to get a better angle, or open our mouth to tell your buddy about that dude moving up on your right flank. This is a vital thing to remember. How do you eleviate this problem? By rehearsals and training. You have to work on your communications skills, and your movement techniques in rehearsals so that when the real thing happens you prepared. Because to elimenate you have to be able to, "SHOOT, MOVE, COMMUNICATE!!!"