| The key to all effective outdoor paintball gun | | | | your paintball gun strategies include knowing the |
| strategies is practice. Every professional paintball | | | | terrain; having good communication and |
| team spends many hours going over their paintball | | | | teamwork; and being able to move effectively. |
| gun strategies. Practice allows you to have | | | | Know The Terrain |
| individual skills and enhance teamwork. There are | | | | Study your terrain well and look for any |
| four steps you should use when practicing | | | | advantages. If there are hills you can slowly climb |
| outdoor paintball gun strategies. | | | | up at a crouch. Then when you reach the top |
| Discussion | | | | you can pop-up for a quick look before dropping |
| Before you even being training it is best to go | | | | to your stomach for protection. This way you |
| over the various field plans as a team and decide | | | | can quickly and easily see what targets are |
| on the best paintball gun strategies you should | | | | available. |
| use. Consider the different situations you may run | | | | If the goal is to protect your flag then you should |
| into and the plans you can use. Before you | | | | look for a tree that gives you good protection |
| actually set foot on the field you want to make | | | | while allowing for movement. It may be a good |
| sure everyone is clear on what to do. | | | | idea to try sitting in the tree and suprising your |
| Dry Training | | | | opponents from above. |
| In this step you want to take the time to walk | | | | Communication and Teamwork |
| through all your paintball gun strategies. You don't | | | | Communication is essential to outdoor paintball gun |
| have to do this on the actual field, especially if | | | | strategies. Make sure you have your movements |
| you don't know where its going to be. You can | | | | planned so that everyone instinctively knows |
| practice in your backyard if necessary, just make | | | | where to go and what to do just by watching |
| sure everyone knows what your paintball gun | | | | each other. In outdoor paintball games |
| strategies look like when they are in progress. | | | | communication doesn't necessarily mean the |
| Half-Speed Training | | | | verbal kind. You don't want the other team to |
| In this training method you will actually use | | | | know what you are doing so silent communication |
| paintballs. Go through all of your paintball gun | | | | is important. Choose a leader and base your |
| strategies, but go slowly like you did with dry | | | | reactive strategy off them. Choose your leader |
| training. Don't rush and use soda cans as targets. | | | | based on tactical experience, military sense and |
| If you can hit soda can during training, you will | | | | nerve. |
| have no trouble hitting your opponent during the | | | | Movement |
| game. | | | | The most important part of outdoor paintball gun |
| Full-Speed Training | | | | strategies is movement. If you want to rush |
| Now you will be running through the field and using | | | | through the woods it is best to stay on |
| paint as if you were playing against real | | | | uncluttered ground. When you are in the woods |
| opponents. It is a good idea to do this first on the | | | | the spot you step on will have an impact on how |
| speedball field where you can get a feel for your | | | | loud you are. It is best to have comfortable hiking |
| paintball gun strategies and how the team works. | | | | boots especially if the area is muddy and the |
| Then you can do a practice run in the woods | | | | ground is unlevel. |
| before you are ready to face your opponents. | | | | Another key to silence in outdoor paintball gun |
| Practice is a long and important process. By | | | | strategies is your hopper or paintball pods. If they |
| following the four steps of practice you can be | | | | are half-filled they will be as loud as baby rattles. |
| successful every time you step on the field. | | | | You should choose pods that are about half or 3 |
| However, some keys to successfully completing | | | | 4 the size of your hopper. |