Paintball Magazine Paintball Magazine May 2020 Issue

Marcus Davis Talks Woodsball Two Factors Affecting Fieldcraft By Marcus Davis, Captain, UK Predators combined are having an effect on how we think and evaluate the game, taking away essentially what we call field craft (more on this in a future article). I’ve noticed for quite some time now that the size of fields we are playing on are becoming more and more like speedball in the woods type of fields. I have walked more fields than I care to remember and currently it feels like fields are becoming squarer, stale or lazy almost in design. This is where the game becomes more reliant on the amount of paint you can shoot than actually playing woodsball: this for me is why I returned, I wanted to play woodsball, I wanted to outwit my opponent rather than who can shoot the largest volume of paint, I wanted to return to the game where I could be a sneaky bastard, creep up on people, draw players in to a kill zone and outwit opponents. Since my return to playing competitive woodsball I’ve noticed a trend towards two distinct factors that I believe are having a dramatic effect on the way woodsball is being played, which in turn definitely effects the final placing. Firstly, the reduction of game time, and secondly the reduction of the field sizes that we are playing on. These two factors 056 paintball.media magazine This, combined with a dramatically reduced playing time affects modern Woodsball- it’s a sprint to the finish where there is almost no time left to actually play woodsball, yes this can happen in a long game but with reduced time you are already against the clock.

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