The Advantages Of Playing Paintball Outdoors
Gregg Hall
Paintball is a growing sport that can be played both indoors and
outdoors with everyone having their own preference as to which is
better. The scenario games are much more fun and really need to be
played outside. With the popularity of paintball there are outdoor
paintball fields popping up all over and there is sure to be one
somewhere near you. The thing that is cool about the larger fields is
that there are all kinds of hiding places to use and explore.
Most of the outdoor paintball fields are located in wooded areas or in
large open fields that have been modified with buildings, castles,
bunkers, junk cars, etc. These are really cool because they help to
recreate an urban warfare experience, kind of good training and
practice for military guys too.
The type of paintball games played in wooded areas is sometimes called
“Woodsball” and is the most realistic form of paintball for most
paintball players. When you are playing the sport in the woods it is
simulating jungle warfare and you really have to be up on jungle
skills. Stealth and camouflage is important is these games and can make
or break your success on this type of field. Someone with excellent
skills could be lying right next to you and you wouldn’t know it until
they popped you. On the other side of the coin there are also team
variations that are very well played out in wooded scenarios where
working together and knowing when to fire and when to duck and cover is
crucial.
There are fields being developed now called scenario fields which are
mostly played at commercial paintball locations with the most popular
being the urban assault fields. These fields are made up of false
structures many times resembling multiple story buildings with window
cutouts to make for easy sniper shooting. They also will feature junked
cars to hide behind and many other urban related objects. These types
of games play out extremely fast and are always full of action and
adventure.
Still another type of field is the speedball field with numerous
bunkers all over. Most of these fields are lager although the smaller
ones can be fun to play with the bunkers closer together which causes
continual firefights from start to finish. If you intend to play on
this type of field you need to have excellent awareness and good
peripheral vision to keep from being hit quickly and put out of the
game. The way the bunkers are placed usually will not give you full
cover so you constantly have to move and adjust your position.
Whether you choose to play indoors or outdoors, wooded field or on a
scenario field one thing is for sure, you will have fun.
Gregg Hall is an author and internet marketing consultant living in
Navarre Florida. Find army surplus and military clothing at
http://www.militaryandoutdoorgear.com
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