paintball 200311

Realised that incorporating a good warmup that includes sliding and diving is good for the body to get warmed up for the rigours of an actual paintball game..

So next time, we'll do a couple of windsprints that end in slides and dives. It really made a difference to our games later on in the day.

Didn't play much. Just 2 games. Played snake back and back mostly. The first game was good. Managed to communicate well with my teammates as well as provide the necessary cover fire to pin down the opponent. Finally got the angle of the barrel right. It was just a matter of elevating the barrel and looking down it to roughly guess the parabolic flight of the paintball.

So i did quite good shooting from the back.

2nd game was real epic. I played Back centre coz Kenny wanted me to be an all rounder. I used a marker with a furious barrel from danny. It was great man. But the only downside to it was the inconsistent feeding of the paintballs into the loader.. I really need an e-loader to up my level of gameplay. So i can lane off ppl much better, without worry of balls not feeding properly.

I did an epic move in the last game at the end to pretty much wrap that game up. I went up to bunker the snake guy then take out the last guy in the back centre.

Epic and high.

TEAM HEARTBREAKERS FIRST TRAINING OF 2011

Had a good training with my team today.

My position now has been decided. I'm a front/mid guy. A position that i really want. being a mid player is a good balance of aggressive front and support back.

We did lots of drills. A breakout drill. Where i learnt that it's actually better to use the hand on the side that you're shooting on. So right side of the field, hold marker in right hand and vice versa. I also learned a defensive breakout. With back-to-back movement to the back centre bunker.

Did an entry to bunker drill which was quite like what BBen taught me the last time i went down for PB.

Also did a bunkering drill. Benguin taught us some cool tricks. Like running low to bunker. and to keep the body squared to the direction of run and only having the marker turn to the side instead of the whole body turn to the side.. to lean forward to run, mroe like controlled falling. so the body is low.

we also did some 1v1 snap shooting drills. those videos i watched that gave tips on snap shooting were really helpful. And it's confirm that i do the thomas taylor/todd martinez/oliver lang style of snapshooting instead of the rollout method by maximus lunqvist. Those tips on to use the entire length of the bunker. coming from above and below to keep the other person guessing and to surprise him was damn good advice. i managed to get cheeyong out.. shooting at him from low..

On a personal note. I should hold the marker barrel up instead of barrel at the target coz the flight trajectory of the paintball is parabolic. So i'd have to point the barrel higher for further..

I also learnt quite alot from Cheeyong. He's one of the most experienced players on my team alongside Kenny and Yazid. So i have been in paintball for quite some time but i have never participated in a tournament before. So yesterday i learnt quite a lot from cheeyong. Basically coz he plays a mid/back position. But Sophie did tell me that cheeyong plays a little too much on the safe side. I'll take that into mind.

Cheeyong taught me about "spraying" everywhere and the importance of communication with my teammates to move up the field.. A far side from playing front where u just go up and the backs just cover u.. In mid. u have to watch ur movement so that, firstly, u won't get urself shot out by the opposite team.. Secondly, to avoid being friendly fired by your own teammates..

really learnt alot yesterday..
looking forward to the next training with my dear team to put our drills to the test..