How To Play Paintball

Hi, guys. My name is Tommy Pemberton. I'm here with UK Paintball in South London.

We're out in the woods today, and I want to talk to you about paintball. Okay, now we're out here in the paintball field and there are many different scenarios you're going to come across when you go to a paintball field whether you're playing scenario, stuffed tournament, stuffed vet, you know, we're going to talk about one type of situation right now, and how to play paintball. So, it can be really confusing when you step out there, you got direct calling game-on, there's carnage going on everywhere, there's people shooting and you don't even know what to do.

The first thing I think anybody should do when they step out into a paintball field is to start making moves towards the objective. So whenever there is an objective, you have to take, whether there's a flag you have to raise, whether there's a castle you have to defend, or whatever you do, you need to get to that permanent point as far forward as you can, and start making some moves. So, when we talk about playing aggressive in paintball, we're not talking about fighting or anything like that, it's all about making moves, getting up in people's faces, and start making things happen, you know.

When you make moves in the paintball field, it opens up a whole new load of angles that hopefully you can shoot across the field and shoot a guy in the back, and obviously, as you can imagine, it's a lot easier to shoot someone in the back than if they're facing at you shooting back, so by making moves you create these angles and you give yourself a lot more options to play well. At the end of the day, winning is so much more fun than losing. So, what we're going to do is we're going to start making moves right now.

Okay, we just started out in this game in this scenario, we've got the fort behind us, we have to try to attack, okay? So with that fort, there's multiple different points where people can shoot back at us, so what we need to do is we need to be really, really aware of where that paint is coming from and the way that we do that is by keeping our eyes out whole time, okay, so the more active we are and the more we stay out of our bunker, the more we can see but obviously the more that we're out of our bunker, the more risk we're going to pose as well, so, we don't want to risk ourselves as much, you know, we want to risk ourselves as minimally as we have to, but while taking in as much information as we can, okay? So, by doing that, say if we start moving towards this bunker here, okay, the reason I've chosen this bunker right now is because it is between us and the castle, okay, and what we're going to do is put that bunker between us and hope that by doing that, the people on the other side of this bunker aren't going to be able to see us. Okay, so whether we're right before that bunker or we stood here, the people directly behind this bunker right in front of us aren't going to be able to see us, okay? So what we are going to do we're going to keep our head up, we're going to move forward towards this bunker, and I'm going to keep looking at where people are shooting at us, so if anyone from the left side starts shooting at us, I can cut to the right a bit more, anyone from the right starts doing that, I can do the same on the left, okay? So I'm going to use this, I'm going all arrange this bunker, and I'm going to see, try and touch and get safe to this bunker as I can do, okay? When I'm right behind this bunker, I'm hoping that I'm going to be as safe as I can be, so even if people are shooting up down at me, I need to make sure my head is low, I got all my equipment and I've got my feet in. This is my safe spot right here, so I need to use these different safe spots to try and collect myself and try and work out my next move, okay, so I'm going to look left and right from here.

I am going to try and pick some other bunkers that I can go to. Okay, I can see a few