Paintball Standup Shooting Form

Video Transcript

"Hello this is Rob Rubin and you're watching Expert Village. In this episode we're going to talk about shooting form and specifically standing shooting form and a lot of people are going to look and say what's the point of shooting form, all you have got to do is stand and pull the trigger? It's not really that easy and if it were everybody would be able to do it. If you don't have good shooting form, you are not going to be able to hit anything. Paintballs are fairly accurate if you give them a chance to be. So we're going to give them a chance. Standing shooting form is what you are going to be using if you are a back player. Most of the back bunkers are tall bunkers back here so you have a chance to stand up. The advantage of keeping on standing is that when you are standing if somebody starts shooting at you you can slide in and play tight if you need to play it, if somebody comes in from the plank you can swing around the bunker and still be somewhat protected. A lot of players when they get into being behind the bunkers like this they will stand with their side facing and they will lean forward and shoot like this. That is not good for several reasons. Number one this is way off balance I mean you are standing on your toes doing this and you are not going to be able to have any sort of balance and number two it is really horrible on your back. You don't think about these things until you have back surgery, trust me. I can't even do that for practice. I'll show you the technique that has been working for me and it also gives you an advantage that you can work both sides of the bunker and it gives you more opportunities. What you are going to do is you're going to bend one knee, put about 80% of your weight on one knee and the other knee is going to remain straight. You are then going to lean out, play tight, and take a couple of shots. This works to the advantage that you can switch sides very easily and go from the left to the right of the bunker very quickly. Plus you can play a little bit loose back here, lean out a little this way and lean out this way and have more mobility out here. As long as you are standing up you might as well be mobile. You might as well use all of the space that you have available to you. "