Marcus Davis Talks
Woodsball
United we fight and United we fall
By Marcus Davis, Captain, UK Predators
myself the best player I could wish to be.
The one thing I loved above everything else
was knowing I had to try and learn all the
different aspects of playing woodsball—
from learning about field craft, to how to use
cover of trees, gullies, different terrain and
how to blend in with my background. And
things like using the sun to my advantage,
how to use the trees not only as cover but
how to use them to block an opponent’s
shot whilst moving towards him.
Since from the very first time I ever played
way back in 1987 to the present day now,
I can always remember the very first time I
ever played paintball in the woods with a
Splatmaster, four tubes of paint and a face
full of camo paint. I had an overwhelming
feeling of “oh shit I’m absolutely loving this”
and from that point onwards I was hooked.
As time passed, I became more and more
obsessed with playing and trying to make
I was basically learning how to play chess in
the woods, with myself as the rook always
looking to move forward to trying to eliminate
my adversary by playing aggressively and
positively by hunting my prey.
In my mind, even back then, I wasn’t one of
those players that would hide in a bush and
wait for my prey to come to me. My natural
instinct was to always seek out the other
team. I was eliminated a lot more times than I
was successful at the start but as time passed
my success rate slowly but surely began to
climb a little bit as each time I played and
learned my skills as a real woodsball player.
I practiced even back then with shooting left
and right-handed; I learned the art of long
balling; and crawling, camouflage, moving
whist others where shooting and the list
continued to grow. My hunger to push myself
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