Paintball

[Dewey]

I used to love paintballing, I played quite a bit but my modesty  prevents me from telling you of my paintballing exploits  :whistle:  

Competition guns fire at 300 fps and can fire at over 20 balls a second, and when someone mugs you over a barricade from a metre away it bloody hurts, but not until after the day is over - too much adrenaline running to notice.

Interestingingly theres a famous Paintballing tactic that was deployed in the early paintball competition days around late 80's called - Dead Mans Walk.

Basically if your team was looking like you where going to lose, you would wait until an opponent called a paintcheck on you, you stand up as though you have been hit and walk towards the opposition (Dead Mans Walk) - though you haven't been hit. Then with arms down by your side looking annoyed, you walk past the oppositions skirmish line and then turn and shoot them in the back - obviously this only works if the deadzone is in the direction your pretending to walk too    But can decimate a team if pulled off  :narnar:

[BlastUK]

Originally posted by BIG-Dewey@Dec 4 2005, 05:13 PM
I used to love paintballing, I played quite a bit but my modesty prevents me from telling you of my paintballing exploits :whistle:

Competition guns fire at 300 fps and can fire at over 20 balls a second, and when someone mugs you over a barricade from a metre away it bloody hurts, but not until after the day is over - too much adrenaline running to notice.

Interestingingly theres a famous Paintballing tactic that was deployed in the early paintball competition days around late 80's called - Dead Mans Walk.

Basically if your team was looking like you where going to lose, you would wait until an opponent called a paintcheck on you, you stand up as though you have been hit and walk towards the opposition (Dead Mans Walk) - though you haven't been hit. Then with arms down by your side looking annoyed, you walk past the oppositions skirmish line and then turn and shoot them in the back - obviously this only works if the deadzone is in the direction your pretending to walk too But can decimate a team if pulled off :narnar:

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thats a nasty tactic, just to be sure to shoot em again if their hand isn't up,
you can't get in trouble for that can you?

(those who didn't know.. fps is feet per second)

[Hippy]

Lol, i remember popping a few extra shots at someone because they didn't have thier hand up.  :whistle:

[Dewey]

Originally posted by BlastUK@Dec 4 2005, 08:32 PM
thats a nasty tactic, just to be sure to shoot em again if their hand isn't up,
you can't get in trouble for that can you?

(those who didn't know.. fps is feet per second)

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Well you can get into trouble if the opposition wait until your close, realise your arm isn't up in the air and then use you for target practice  

[DarkAngel]

Well up for it m8 i regually play airsoft with my m8's

[Dewey]

I dug out this old photo of the team I used to play for, we where playing in a 5 man competition - we won this one and appeared in a paintball magazine

[BLOOD_THIRSTY]

Bah not paintballing!! being 6ft 6 , u cant miss me and the protection doesnt fit in the right places! actually i seem to always get hit on the weak point, ankles, wrist, neck, knee caps even with knee pads.....  might as well play in shorts and tee shirt,  I aint complaining , its good fun really  

[Dewey]

Originally posted by BLOOD_THIRSTY@Dec 20 2005, 07:12 PM
Bah not paintballing!! being 6ft 6 , u cant miss me and the protection doesnt fit in the right places! actually i seem to always get hit on the weak point, ankles, wrist, neck, knee caps even with knee pads.....  might as well play in shorts and tee shirt,  I aint complaining , its good fun really 

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One of the best teams on the Pro-ball circuit about 10 year ago was a team called the Nam-Wreckin-Crew later to become Shockwave, very aggressive side, one of the best in the UK - they had a couple of guys on their side who where about your size, big blokes, not fat either brick sh*t houses I think is the scientific term! They where fast.

I had the delight of marshalling them once at the European masters, the highlight being  in the quarter finals when they where playing a grudge match versus the American Ironmen team.

At the start of the game one of the big guys turns to me and says,
'don't f*ck up a call marshall, I don't want you pulling me for spray'

- the whistle goes, the team breakout at speed, and I'm following this big fella and some of his mates. I see the big fella, get shot twice in the chest one bounced the other broke - he knew he'd been hit so he dives on to his front behind a barricade, trying to wipe of the paint on the ground ie trying to cheat.

I called him neutral stood him up - before I say a word he's saying thats not a hit marshall its just spray- after I told him he was out, his body language and colourful language suggested he was going to rip my head off after the game ended!  :blink:

Sorry I digressed there didn't I  :lol: