Politeknik Kuching Mini Tournament

My view of a 5 men speedball basic tactic

Speedball for me is a fast and action packed kind of painball game. We need to be alert at all time. Vision is important because we must know the position of own team mates and opponent. Beside individual skills, trust is one of the main cores of speedball along with understanding. When have trust we feel free to move. When we have understanding we know where to go. Don’t have these then we are playing blind and with fear.

My Basic 5 men Tactic

The most popular format used in Malaysia today is 5 men format. My basic tactic in 5 men speedball is 3 back players and 2 forwards. One of the back players (on either side) is going to be the Roberto Carlos of paintball which means that he/she will overlap through the flank. Eventually the game tactics will change to 2 back players and 3 forwards. The forwards position is 2 forward on one side and the other one on the other side. This means that forward players are divided into 2 teams. Back players will support with their fire power.The two team of forward are Team Alphathe attacking team/strong side (2 players) and Team Beta the support team/weak side (1 player).Team alpha role is to take out opponent’s center and left or side back player depending on which side team alpha position themselves. Team beta will takes out opponent’s forward players with the support from two back players. The team’s back player will delay or pin down the opponent’s forwards. They also try to make opponent’s back players busy so that team alpha can eliminate them.This tactic needs to be practice a lot because it’s not an easy task. Movements of players need to be coordinated well and wisely so they can position themselves correctly.

speedball tactic?

I like some idea on basic speedball tactic... i have my own but just based on experience playing non-competetive games.

i'll post my view of a basic 5 men tactic in my next post..

maybe we can share the experience

MJC field

Aerial view of MJS paintball field.

Unfortunately now still in rainy season.. so not much to expect. Just hoping the rainy days gonna pass and people start to come to play. I wanna see new players to play because i really want paintball to be popular. When many people play then there's gonna be some competition. Yeah... that's the important thing. When many teams are formed, they gonna play each other and eventually gonna improve their skills, techniques, strategies.

We wanna see teams from sarawak improve. Not just a team or a couple of teams. We want significant number of good teams from sarawak giving hard time to current active team in MyNPL, MPOC when we meet them in a competition. Hope this gonna happen ya....

Why penisular teams are more advance from sarawak and sabah? Because they got a lot of team playing paintball.. regularly. It's true many of them are sponsored. They're sponsored because they play good. They all start from a beginner, true?

Anyway... we have to promote paintball first... then we can see it... ;)