The Alan Keys to Success

Fine tuning your success in professional paintball is much like fine tuning your paintball gun, if every bolt and screw is not perfectly pitched, then your gun wont operate to its potential, and neither will your team. Professional teams spend countless hours of practice to perfect these key components, but if done properly, each hour of practice gives back 10 fold in those few short minutes of your match.

THE KEYS:

The Breakout: - Your teams starting position on the breakout is essential to success. If you dont have your players in the right positions at the start, your running patterns will be crossed and you will more then likely wind up running through your teammates lines of paint.

Field Position: - Once your team has broken out, obtaining field position is how you start to obtain field dominance. If your team cannot cover the key areas on the field, the other team will gain position on you, and have the winning angles of fire.

Swift Movement: - Once your team has obtained its position, having your frontmen move the field up is what must be done. By moving up the field, you trap the enemy on their side of the field. If the angles are covered properly, they will be pinned down in their side and will be on their way to defeat.

COMMUNICATION: - This is the most important aspect your team can practice. Communication is what makes or breaks a team. If your team can't communicate well with each other, your frontmen will be moving blindly, and your backmen wont be able to find where they need to cover. Your team can have the most talent on the field but without the teamwork and communication, no talent in the world will be able to beat a team with good communication.

The Paintball World Cup:

Paintball - Millennium Series 2007 movie
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Like a pilgrimage to mecca or a childhood trip to disney land, The millenium series paintball championship is the mac daddy of all paintballers events. Although it takes place in europe, players travel from all over the globe just to get a taste of premiership paintball. This video is just a tiny taste of what real professional paintball looks like.