Podoz1
12-20-2007, 09:27 PM
A Few Steps for Angles and Shooting lanes
By Podoz1/Ranger/Shane
Angles and shooting lanes are a huge part of paintball. They can lead to an easy victory if used correctly by each player. Communication plays a vital role in using both of these. You don’t want to be holding an opposing player down and have your teammate move right into your line of fire. Using communication with angles helps you know where an enemy is located for a well-executed flanking move. Using your eyes and knowledge of the field helps immensely, so don’t rely on what everyone else thinks you should do. Assess your the situation and do what you think needs to be done.
Angles
When you’re on a field during play, you want all the advantage you can get. One is of course, angles. Angles when used in the right way can change the course of a fire fight and maybe the whole game. Knowing how to use them is a skill you will have to learn from experience. Communicating needs to be learned as well as angles, because they are 2 peas in a pod (like the veggie pod not a paintball pod). You need to understand that you are going to get dirty and sometimes shot up before you become a perfect flanker.
Using angles
Enough on how important angles are. Let’s get down to learning how to use them and hopefully improve your game. Here are a few steps for flanking:
Step 1 Observations
Learning your surroundings before, during and after a game, helps you know where angles can be formed. This can give you an advantage over a walk-on player.
Step 2 Assessing the situation
If you followed the first step to some degree, now you know the field a little bit better than before and hopefully more than your opponents. Now that you are in the middle of a fire fight, using your knowledge of the field, figure out where you are and your opponent’s position. Now that you know this, see if you can move into an angle. The questions you should ask:
• Is there significant cover for me on my route?
• If there isn’t should I ask for cover fire or choose a different route?
• When should I move and how fast?
Step 3 Movement
Moving into your new position (angle) can be tricky if there isn’t much cover. This can be avoided if you asked the questions in the earlier step. If you choose to ask for cover that means that you need to move quickly and most likely in the open giving other opponents a shot at you. If you don’t need to run to your angle then you should try to crawl there and not bring attention to your self. One thing you want to avoid is moving to slow and wasting valuable time. Movement/crawling can be found in the sniper topics at specialopspaintball.com. (http://forum.specialopspaintball.com/index.php?showforum=66).
Step 4 The elimination
Eliminating your opponent is the entire reason your doing all these steps. The one thing you don’t want to do is miss. Try to shoot at the largest exposed part of the body. Shoot 3 or 4 shots in a burst (not like a 3ball burst if your field doesn’t allow it). So if you don’t get him the first time you might have a second chance if he doesn’t know where the shots came from.
Shooting lanes
Shooting lanes are something you can learn from speedball (yes, I play that too). These are like the fingers on the hand of angles (fingers being the shooting lanes while the hand/palm is angles). Lanes are mostly needed for covering a position. Be watchful and communicate new movement for it could effect the game.
Tip 1. Observation
I think a knowledge of the field is more important while using shooting lanes than angles. Because you need to know where you can shoot without leaving a part of your body open for a shot. So walk the field before the game, observe during the game and ask yourself (if you got eliminated) why did you get eliminated and how can you avoid it the next time.
Tip 2. A clear lane
It doesn’t help to fire through a bush so try to keep that lane clear and don’t take stupid shots.
Tip 3. Communication.
I can’t stress communication enough. You and your teammates need to know where each of you are to ensure that you don’t break each other’s lane. Be watchful because there might be some one who just won’t listen and moves right into your line of fire. So stop, let him through and then continue to fire afterwards.
I hope this helps all players from newbs to the elite.
My original 3 cents
By Podoz1/Ranger/Shane
Angles and shooting lanes are a huge part of paintball. They can lead to an easy victory if used correctly by each player. Communication plays a vital role in using both of these. You don’t want to be holding an opposing player down and have your teammate move right into your line of fire. Using communication with angles helps you know where an enemy is located for a well-executed flanking move. Using your eyes and knowledge of the field helps immensely, so don’t rely on what everyone else thinks you should do. Assess your the situation and do what you think needs to be done.
Angles
When you’re on a field during play, you want all the advantage you can get. One is of course, angles. Angles when used in the right way can change the course of a fire fight and maybe the whole game. Knowing how to use them is a skill you will have to learn from experience. Communicating needs to be learned as well as angles, because they are 2 peas in a pod (like the veggie pod not a paintball pod). You need to understand that you are going to get dirty and sometimes shot up before you become a perfect flanker.
Using angles
Enough on how important angles are. Let’s get down to learning how to use them and hopefully improve your game. Here are a few steps for flanking:
Step 1 Observations
Learning your surroundings before, during and after a game, helps you know where angles can be formed. This can give you an advantage over a walk-on player.
Step 2 Assessing the situation
If you followed the first step to some degree, now you know the field a little bit better than before and hopefully more than your opponents. Now that you are in the middle of a fire fight, using your knowledge of the field, figure out where you are and your opponent’s position. Now that you know this, see if you can move into an angle. The questions you should ask:
• Is there significant cover for me on my route?
• If there isn’t should I ask for cover fire or choose a different route?
• When should I move and how fast?
Step 3 Movement
Moving into your new position (angle) can be tricky if there isn’t much cover. This can be avoided if you asked the questions in the earlier step. If you choose to ask for cover that means that you need to move quickly and most likely in the open giving other opponents a shot at you. If you don’t need to run to your angle then you should try to crawl there and not bring attention to your self. One thing you want to avoid is moving to slow and wasting valuable time. Movement/crawling can be found in the sniper topics at specialopspaintball.com. (http://forum.specialopspaintball.com/index.php?showforum=66).
Step 4 The elimination
Eliminating your opponent is the entire reason your doing all these steps. The one thing you don’t want to do is miss. Try to shoot at the largest exposed part of the body. Shoot 3 or 4 shots in a burst (not like a 3ball burst if your field doesn’t allow it). So if you don’t get him the first time you might have a second chance if he doesn’t know where the shots came from.
Shooting lanes
Shooting lanes are something you can learn from speedball (yes, I play that too). These are like the fingers on the hand of angles (fingers being the shooting lanes while the hand/palm is angles). Lanes are mostly needed for covering a position. Be watchful and communicate new movement for it could effect the game.
Tip 1. Observation
I think a knowledge of the field is more important while using shooting lanes than angles. Because you need to know where you can shoot without leaving a part of your body open for a shot. So walk the field before the game, observe during the game and ask yourself (if you got eliminated) why did you get eliminated and how can you avoid it the next time.
Tip 2. A clear lane
It doesn’t help to fire through a bush so try to keep that lane clear and don’t take stupid shots.
Tip 3. Communication.
I can’t stress communication enough. You and your teammates need to know where each of you are to ensure that you don’t break each other’s lane. Be watchful because there might be some one who just won’t listen and moves right into your line of fire. So stop, let him through and then continue to fire afterwards.
I hope this helps all players from newbs to the elite.
My original 3 cents