Off-Hand Shooting in Paintball

Video Transcript

"Hello this is Rob Rubin and you're watching Expert Village. Something you might have noticed is that when we come up on a bunker we shoot with this hand but then when we switch sides we switch hands. This is a skill called shooting switch. What that means is we are going to shoot with the left hand coming up the left hand side and with the right coming in on the right hand side. Now you are probably saying why do you want to do that? Why don't you just bring the gun over like this and shoot with your dominate hand? There is a simple reason for that and that is that number one - if you are shooting like this you're not going to get any accuracy because you can't really sight down the barrel, you're not going to get any real skillful shots out of it because this is not exactly a comfortable shooting position and this is not exactly the tightest way to play and if you don't hold the marker right you are going to leave this way out and that is not good. So what you are trying to do is you are trying to train yourself to shoot off handed. This comes in handy when you are playing on both sides of the field, especially when you are coming up the left and the right and you can control multiple angles. The hardest skill in shooting switch is not actually shooting off handed it is switching hands with your paintball marker. This is actually a lot more difficult than it sounds because you don't want to drop this, bad thing. Don't drop this so the only real way to practice is repetition, do it over and over again. It is really easy to do, just come out one side and as you are switching smoothly transfer from one hand to the other come out on the other hand and smoothly change from one hand to the other and just keep on doing it over and over again. Remember our scene from snapshooting in front of your television, this is another skill you can do just in front of the TV. If you are watching television you really have nothing else that you want to be doing. Just keep switching back and forth and eventually it becomes second nature."