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Paintball Drills / Habits |
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Sunday, 02 September 2007 |
Marker Position:
From Dynasty Dystected, make the marker an extension of your nose. This does several things. By sighting with both eyes down the center of your marker you are retaining your depth perception. You are also taking advantage of biomechanics. Every sport has the concept that you throw where you look, or you fall where you look (gymnastics). In this case, you will shoot where you look. If you hold your marker off center your line of fire and line of sight are not parallel and you will always have to make small adjustments to try to get on target. If you put the line of fire directly on top of your line of sight, not adjustments is necessary. If you can look at a target, you can hit a target.
Accuracy:
Target shooting will help you identify if you are sighting and snapping effectively. Set up a target 30-40 yards from your bunker and practice coming out, taking one well placed shot, then check back into your bunker. It is tiring, but it will be very clear whether you need to spend more time on accuracy or not.
Running and shooting:
Running and shooting (accurately) is an essential skill. We break it down into it's component parts. Get the marker into position, site, shoot, isolate the upper body, run. To practice this we line up each player at the start box ready to run out to a corner. On the whistle the player brings his marker up into position with a solid pop, starts shooting (or walking the trigger without paint), and then starts his run out to the corner. Have someone to the side looking for a solid pop, good sighting technique, and a steady barrel as the player runs to the corner. Then line up with paint and shoot your mirror doing the same thing.
These are some training techniques taken from a speedball team's site (leaving out some stuff), but it gives some good ideas that can or need to be adapted to all asprcts of play - Especially Marker Position and Accuracy.
Justin "Snake"Burke
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