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Breakout 101

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  Paintball is a sport that is really about the finesse of your movements. The breakout can be one of the hardest parts of the game because it can make or break your game plan. Having a good break out really means that you have taken advantage of all the "key" bunkers on the field right at the sound of the first buzzer, ideally making it there as a living player. Let us start with what a "key" bunker really is? Paintball is a game of angles; it is much easier to shoot a player from an angle than an in a straight line. If you are not 100% sure how to identify a key bunker, then be sure to read my article "Reading the field for dummies" where I help construct a field and help point out positions of importance. After planning where your players are going to go its time to figure out who plays what style and then send them to that zone of the field. Let us break down the play styles and what will work best for your break-out. A Back will be closest to the star

But it hurts

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Paintball is a sport you really need to spend alot of time doing in order to conquer a few natural phobias. When I first got into the game, Adrenaline was my worst friend. I loved it but I was afraid of so many aspects that it really froze my progression. You have to conquer your mind, and the way I chose to overcome this was not to give up and get shot ALOT! I have told people that I have been shot every where on my body at least twice... but after 20 years I would say I have been shot every where at least 3-6 times everywhere on my body. I have scars that I love and scars I hate, little circles on my forearms and scars on my knees and shins, even some on my neck and fingers. But, because of the way I chose to attack my behavior for every scar I have Ive left three times as many. For every time I have been shot I have shot other people 6 times more. When you learn not to flinch, and that its just a a little pain that you can chose to focus on you become a much more valuable player. Mi

In the Beginning

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My name is Aragon Marks and I am a paintballholic. It all started when I was 14, I had a friend who just got a set of brass eagle tiger shark paintball guns for his birthday. My friend invited me to a little one on one skirmish in the woods and I basically peed my pants I was so terrified. I had never known what adrenaline was until it coursed through me that day and I fell in love. I was so excited that when I came home I couldn't stop talking about it. My older brother was interested and ended up buying me my first paintball marker, a brass eagle talon. my talon came with an instructional VHS that gave me my first look into the actual sport of paintball, and I watched it so many times I wore out the tape and it was just static. luckily I had dial up internet and I was able to start my research into paintball, and through warpig I found they had professional players and also that there was a local field that competed in "National" events. I was a silly little kid not kno