Its all about teamwork mates!

Teamwork...The Winning Formula:


Teamwork is the foundation of success in paintball. Playing by the seat of your pants is fun and exciting, but it wont win you games as consistently as knowing how to play like a real team.

In paintball, winning teamwork depends on three major ingredients:

attitude
skill
and strategy

Let's start with attitude, since it's often what makes or breaks a paintball team. A team of expert strategists with tournament-level skills, but without a similar attitude, will still lose games. (it doesnt help if you have good players but with poor leadership, this will eventually break the team. A waste if they have promising future in paintball)

Great teamwork -- the kind that wins -- requires teammates to share certain characteristics.
First, commitment: Do you play occasional pick-up games? Do you play weekly?
Or do you practice constantly and play at every available opportunity? And how seriously do you take the game? (we gotta admit, due to some limitations on finance and since paintball is still quite pricey here in Malaysia, not many of us do play every week. Majority of us train when the tournament is around the corner, therefore teams which getting full sponsorship to train and play, should take this opportunity to train religiously!)

Do you futz around, splattering each other with paint? Or is each game an all-out death match? Teammates who are prepared to devote similar amounts of time to similar goals will likely work together best.
(Very likely, many of us play for fun, which is good. But when it comes to tournament, the fun have to be in put in a serious attitude. They say, work hard play hard. I'd say, lets play some serious fun game!)

Second, how does each of you handle conflict and criticism? Teammates will screw up occasionally. When someone makes an error...

Do you fly off the handle? Joke about it?
Ignore it?

How about receiving criticism -- do you get defensive?
(Can't deny that too, not many of us can take criticism on how we have played, especially when the comments come from a player we dont look highly upon. Not a really good attitude there!)

Insist it wasn't your fault?

Take responsibility?

Teammates don't need to react identically, but they do need to be able to work with each other's approaches.

(The best way is always to act nonchalant and accept all the tips and advice you can get from all the PRO players, we aint got nothing to lose anyway. But if it comes from a "poyo" player who thinks he is so good when he is actually crap at it, just swallow your pride for a while and let him boast for a while, but you not obliged to do as he tell..hehehe! This happens all the time man.. Especially when an all ladies team are training, there will be lotsa paintball dudes trying to be our coaches ( we've already have one, and that will be enough), correcting every single "mistakes" we did.. It can be irritating sometimes, coz most of them dont know a shit what they are talking about!)

Third, you need mutual trust and respect. Without them, you'll second-guess each other's decisions and actions, and your strategy will break down. Each player needs confidence that everyone else knows his role and can perform, even if all hell breaks loose.

Taken mostly from, Paintball trips and tricks, with some notes added by yours truly...

Till the next tournament...Lets do some paint guys!