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Sunday, January 29, 2012

Paintball Fundamentals And Basics

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By Mark Tuttle

As a strategic and tactical game to play paintball can be suitably termed as a physical and challenging sport. The players require to use tactics intelligently. A lot of paintball games invite audiences. Paintball can be a very exciting game to watch. Woods, arenas, and fields purposely carved out for playing "rec paintball" are used everyday.

Another name for paintball is known as woodsball as it is played in the woods. For scenario games or war-type games large woodsball fields may be used. Preparation of some woodsball fields is done so as to minimize undergrowth. At one time woodsball can be played by a small or large number of players. Paintball played in arenas or in rec facilities are swifter than this type of Paintball.

Surrounded by protective netting to protect spectators from getting hit by stray paintballs, are the smaller fields used to play arena paintball. Manmade structures like empty utility line spools, bunkers, and inflatable structures can be a part of these fields sometimes. Names of the two types of games played in arena paintball are speedball and xball.

For playing Speedball what is required is a field that is empty except for inflatable obstacles and roofless bunkers that are distributed equally on each half of the field. Competitive for the players and exciting for the spectators such is the format of the speedball game.

There are multiple rounds of center flag played until the clock runs out in the Xball which is a team game. A team which wins a round gets one point. The team with greater total points at the end of the clock running out is the winner team. Matches which are played for 50 minutes, split into two halves are Professional Xball matches whereas Amateur Xball games have shorter duration.

In comparison to other types of paintball, Rec style is more freeform. Usually it is played in noticeably open areas with manmade structures or bunkers providing cover. Rec paintball is such a game that it can either be played by few people or by hundreds of players in re-enactment games.

Paintball needs teamwork regardless of the type of game being played. Teamwork is supported through effective communication. Some players give off cover shots when the other members are moving through the field and some other players are guarding.

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