Thursday, April 9, 2009

Paintball Fundamentals And Basics

By Mark Tuttle

Paintball can be suitably termed as a physical and challenging sport which requires strategic and tactical thinking by the players. Numerous types of paintball games exist which attract audiences. It can be a very stimulating game to watch. To play paintball you will see it in areas such as woods, arenas and fields specially made for "rec paintball." Paintball can be played in several ways.

A logical name of paintball is woodsball when it is played in the woods. Large woodsball fields may be used for scenario games or war-type games. Few woodsball fields are well prepared to avoid undergrowth. Numerous players might play woodsball at one time or the number of players can be small too. However this kind of paintball is more strategic and as a result slower than the paintbaal played in arenas or rec facilities.

Smaller fields are required for playing arena paintball. Such fields are surrounded by protective fences to save the spectators from being hit by stray and paintballs. Manmade structures may also be a part of these fields sometimes, such as empty utility line spools, bunkers, and inflatable structures. Speedball and xball are the two types of games played in arenas.

A field that is empty except for inflatable obstacles and roofless bunkers that are distributed equally on each half of the field is used to play Speedball. For spectators the speedball format is more exciting and for players it is more challenging.

Professional Xball matches last 50 minutes, split into two halves. Amateur Xball games have shorter matches. Xball is a team game with multiple rounds of Center Flag played until the clock runs out. A team which wins a round gets one point. When the clock runs out the team leading with more points is declared as the winning team for the match.

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.

As per the requirement of paintball, teamwork is absolutely essential regardless of the type of game being played. When some team members are moving through the field other players will guard and some will give off cover shots when it is needed. Teamwork is thoroughly supported by communication. - 22873

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