Paintball Breaks

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Hello this is Rob Rubin and you're watching Expert Village. In this episode we're talking about The Break. The Break is where you start at your start box and you break out on to the field. It has been said that you can do more in the first ten seconds of the game than you can in the next five minutes of the game. Where the break starts is you start at your start box. Now sometimes it is a wall like this one here, it can be an actual box, it can be netted or have a rope over it, it depends on the field as to what you start at. Sometimes it is a bunker that everybody has to be behind. Tournament rules require that the paintball marker has to be facing away from the opponent so the start box is over here and our opponents are over this way and how you do that is basically up to you. A lot of players will face the gun pointing away and at the beginning of the game they will swing 180 degrees and start shooting. I have also seen players and what they'll do is they'll have the paintball marker facing backwards over their shoulder and they'll just come down and shoot or the way I like to do it is to keep the paintball marker under the hip facing away and at the beginning of the game whip up and shoot. Off the break you want to be ready to do whatever it is that is your job on the field to do. If you are one of the front guys and you are a sprinter, you want to set up. You're a sprinter in the block. Put your foot against the back if there is a back rest for it, have the gun facing away and just be ready to explode as soon as the referee yells go. If you are one of the back players and you are a shooter, you want to be in a stance that you are comfortable in and you want to know where you are shooting at. You don't want to be facing to the left if you are going to the right. What is happening to the left is not your concern right now. Your concern is making your first position. Be set up for it. All this being said you can fake out the opposition right off the break. Speed ball fields are relatively small. You can look across and see the other team over there and if you see a bunch of guys down like this like they are ready to sprint, odds are they're going to be running and there is not going to be many shooters. If they start using this to their advantage and they start looking across the field to see what you are doing, fake them out a little bit. If you are one of the back guys, get into a crouch like you are ready to sprint and as soon as they yell go, just stand up and lay into them. If you are one of the sprinters, you can kind of not get into a full blown sprinter's stance but be in a half stance right off the break just to throw off the other team. Something that I say to a lot of people is predictable people get shot, do something unpredictable.

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