I’ve just recieved an email from our paintball Brighouse venue, along with a photo of a fire that recently burnt down the in-field safety zone!
It’s made a right mess, but luckily nobody was hurt. I guess it’s just more of an annoyance.
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The UK’s second biggest scenario event was held at Skirmish Wakefield. Over 250 players attended the weekend of paintball and entertainment. The recently constructed Missile Crisis game was the focal point of several intense battles.
From the 1st October, Skirmish Warminster is offering Low Impact Paintball.
What is Low impact Paintball
We provide smaller guns which shoot smaller paintballs at lower velocity. The means that the paintballs make a lower impact when they hit you and are therefore suitable for children as young as nine years.
What Equipment is provided
Face mask, combat overalls and gloves are supplied.
Each guest has a Low Impact Paintball Gun with 300 paintballs for the 90 minutes of play.
At the beginning of each game, all gun hoppers will be topped up with paintballs. So, each player will shoot an average of 50 balls in each of the six games.
Special scenarios and fields
We have designed some special fields and activities more suitable to younger children and to further reduce risks such as shooting at close range by introducing features such as ‘no mans land’ between teams
After talking to the owner of our Paintball High Wycombe, we got into the subject of what makes a good player different to an excellent player and after reeling of a list of different aspects, he sent me this email:
1. Use cover as a diversion. Appear from behind a part of the cover, duck down, and move to another part. Your opponent will be focusing his attention on where you used to be – where he thinks you still are. Jump up and nail him, if he’s close enough, or jump up and run to better cover if he isn’t. Use the element of surprise.
2. Use teamwork to keep an opponent trapped behind cover. With a teammate providing cover fire aimed at the object your opponent is hiding behind, you can approach undetected and find a better angle to tag him while he’s still behind cover. If he realizes you are approaching and breaks cover to tag you, your teammate will tag him.
3. Learn total awareness. Don’t focus your attention on a single spot, even if you think an opponent may be hiding there – a different opponent may be flanking you. Or you may locate an opponent you wouldn’t otherwise have seen. Constantly survey your surroundings.
4. Move. Standing still will get you noticed. Moving will keep your opponent guessing about where you could pop up from. Moving will get you to better positions. Try shooting first, then moving while your opponents are behind cover, to give yourself the most time.
5. Move up field especially when your opponent doesn’t see you. You can either shoot blindly, probably from out of range, or you can take advantage of the moment to move up field to where you could be more useful. Don’t be afraid of moving up field – fear leads to hesitation, which could get you tagged.
7. When you get to a new position, pause. Don’t give yourself away immediately. Take a moment to survey the field from your new angle, determine if any opponents are within range, or if there’s a better position you can run to.
8. Keep it simple. Really cool looking moves will only make you look stupid if you get tagged while doing them.
9. Climb a tree. People rarely look up. You won’t have the freedom of movement, but you will have additional cover and concealment. This tactic is especially good for protecting a base or a flag.
10. Communicate with your teammates, especially on offensive maneuvers. You’ll have more success as a team than as an individual. And even if the opponent you are trying to tag hears you, if you have a good plan he won’t be able to do anything with the knowledge anyway. Paintball is a team sport.
I don’t think he’s far off with these, and if you keep these in mind then you’ll not go far wrong!
Over the last few days i’ve had a flourish of paintball videos sent through to me, so i thought i’d share them with all you lovely people in cybespace!
This first video was post on our facebook wall a few days back, and was taken by one of our customers over at our paintball Nottingham venue using a helmat cam:
The second video today is an animation of a paintball skirmish. Excellent use of animation here, dont you think!
There are plenty more, but i’ll keep this post very short and very sweet!
Here at Skirmish, we love to talk to the people that matter; you.
Because of this we are offering the chance for someone to air their views on anything and everything to do with paintball. All you have to do is write an article about anything to do with paintball from marker comparison to funny paintball stories!
All you have to do is email jason@skirmishpaintballgames.co.uk with the kind of subject you want to talk about and we’ll take it from there. You’ll get your article posted on our Paintball Skirmish website, facebook page, twitter page and so on.
A great oppotunity for some publicity, much like the interview by David Applegate!
We hope to hear from you all very soon! 
Following our post about how to be successful during a paintball game, we have come up with a list of 10 fantastic tips that will help you play more efficiently during a paintball battle.
Written by a paintball marshal over at Skirmish Brighouse and Wakefield, these are his top ten most important tips to improve your game:
1. Move
The key to paintball is movement and there’s no better paintball tip than to to learn how to move. You should learn when to move, learn how to move and move all the time.
2. Get a Good Paint To Barrel Match
You have to buy paintballs to play the game, so you might as well get some paint that fits.If your paint is round and fits snugly in your barrel your accuracy will improve dramatically.
3. Walk the Field
One trip around the field can pay off huge dividends as you learn the angles and know the locations of the best cover.
4. Get in Shape
A day of paintball is much more fun and you can actually focus on your game if you aren’t constantly gasping for air. Get yourself into good enough shape that your primary concern is not if your body can handle the next game.
5. Know what You and Your Equipment are Capable of Doing
If you know you can’t shoot worth anything when you run, save it for practice and don’t try it in a game. If you know you can’t win a high speed shootout, don’t try. If you know your gun isn’t accurate beyond sixty feet, save your paint. When you know what your limitations are you won’t get yourself into trouble nearly as often. You should always work to get better, but a big game is not the right time.
6. Don’t Be The Hero
Paintball players have a tendency to want to be the star of the show and that often gets them into trouble. If you want occasional individual glory, feel free to try every game to win on your own. If, though, you actually want to win regularly, focus on teamwork and strategy.
7. Plan, Plan, Plan
A good team strategy will almost always win against superior fire power and superior numbers. Make sure you all work together and then move in conjunction with each other and you will be able to crush the competition.
8. Practice on Your Own
Improve your game on your own time so that you are able to step on the field and perform. If you excel playing defense, practice offense so that when your team needs you in a game you’re ready to help.
9. Communicate
The more you communicate the better you will do. Good communication will help you keep track of where on the field the opposing players are and it will help you coordinate attacks. Whether you shout or use radios, good team communication will greatly improve your game.
10. Aim Before You Fire
A trap that many paintball players fall into is to fire first and aim later. While it’s easy to fire lots of paint and walk your shot into your target, after the first shot your opponent knows to move and you have a much smaller chance at getting a kill.
From the powers that be, it has been decided that from now on the opening times at our paintball Leicester and Coventry venues are as follows:
Half Days:
Morning: 10am – 1pm
Afternoon: 1pm – 4pm
Full Days:
10am – 4pm
If you have any queries then give us a call on 0870 22 55 639
Tradition suggests that stag parties can be monumental, epic and any other word that describes a truly awesome day and night. You’ve probably heard of legendary night’s out to celebrate the stags final outing as a singleton; from being tied to a lamppost to being hauled into the back of a van and driven across country for a night on the ale.
Over the 25 years of being in the industry, we’ve had the pleasure of hosting thousand’s of stag parties and we’ve seen some amazing fancy dress costumes, along with some brilliant ways to ‘get the stag’.
With this in mind, I think its about time we introduced Nick Lovett; a loveable chap, who thought his stag day would start in a gentle (in comparison to his night) fashion at Skirmish Paintball.
However, this was all thrown out the window when he was bungled into to the back of a mate’s van, tarred and feathered and then dumped at our site. In a bath tub. Right at the entrance. In broad daylight.
You have to have a look at the picture, word’s simply do not do it justice!
Poor bloke!
This is possibly the greatest stag prank we’ve heard about.
But there must be something better out there! Let us know, pictures would be even better
As we’re always taking new pictures for our paintball skirmish website, there’s usally one or two that are simply amazing.
This photograph was taken at our Buckinghamshire venue and is simply a once in a lifetime shot, you couldn’t make it up!
Getting shot mid flight must be a bummer.
