Paintball Magazine Paintball Magazine May 2020 Issue | Page 58

Also the biggest advantage about playing
on bigger fields is it negates the firepower
advantage that some teams might have over
you by allowing you to move which would
otherwise be impossible. It really is time for
there to be a distinct divide between the two
formats where you play airball your way and
we play woodsball our way.
countless others that feel the same as I do.
More variation to the game we love surely
encourages a wider audience!
As a suggestion, there should be a minimum
requirement for a tournament sized woodsball
field, so you cannot be hit on the initial break
out and cannot shot from tape to tape. This
is simple enough to test with a gun and a few
rounds of paint. If this simple requirement
was put into place we would start to play real
woodsball again I hope and pray everyone is
staying safe and keeping well in these difficult
times and hopefully we will all be back in the
woods playing against each other again soon!
In my eyes we are all paintball players- we
choose to play different formats so why doesn’t
each format have unique key points. If I want
to shoot and play with 10.5 ramping guns and
shoot lanes and play that type of paintball I will
go and play airball and will adapt my skill set to
accommodate the different way in which this
format is played.
God Bless!
So when we play in the woods we rely more
on field craft and a maneuvering type of game Marcus
with is less reliant of amounts of paint shot and Captain, UK Predators
gun skills. I have spoken to many of my friends
from teams like the Ironmen, Aftershock and
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