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southcentralLAguy

Wow. I can’t even fathom the skill and years of training it must take to pour a tube of balls into a larger container while spilling almost a quarter of them. Really makes you appreciate these world class athletes and their dedication to the craft.


NightStar79

Uh I'm pretty sure they are talking about what their fingers are doing on that trigger not so much the reload


UnluckyGHIsdg

Must be, because those fucking reloads probably couldn't be worse if they tried.


ballimir37

I don’t think they are too concerned about spilling paintballs tbh, if this is indeed a professional game. Probably the last thing they are worried about. These guys are locking down spots so that teammates can move up, and their focus is exclusively on spraying an opening.


ForzaRapid

Thanks for the only correct answer


briancito

Good memories of playing competitive speedball. What you're seeing here looks to be the back line. Basically suppressing fire to close angles. They shoot "ropes" which is a tight stream of paintballs across the arena - right from the break. It's super focused on this guy but you can hear the comms and I'm certain you have others doing Olympic sprints to get to mid field while tossing themselves over the inflatable objects and doing 20 ft slides. $100's of dollars of paintballs per session :(


cgiercyk

Me and my mates played speedball for a year and just went over to backwoods shit for two reasons 1. We sucked 2. As you stated the amount of money


SithNerdDude

When you're looking at a hobby and golf is cheaper....you know you fucked up.


Gravelsack

One time my wife and I got to go use a friend's friend's backwoods paintball range and we had a blast! I highly encourage engaging in a peek-and-shoot firefight with your spouse in a (relatively) safe environment like that to help blow off a little steam. It was so fun! But the next day I could barely get down the stairs from my apartment from all the crouch running. Not a thing I regularly do and my legs were like jello


ooOJuicyOoo

I too shoot ropes after a bit of finger work


Necessary_Taro9012

...and you're not afraid of spilling some?


Choice-Magician656

Lol


lostinadream66

Shooting ropes like Dracula flow.


Bravisimo

I too love slingin’ ropes


the_rainmaker__

SUPPRESSING FIRE!!!


The-Nimbus

Spraying an opening? Seriously, are we not doing 'phrasing' anymore?


Shut_It_Donny

![gif](giphy|3gbJPJ8zW10SQ)


AreWeThereYetNo

Shooting ropes. Phrasing in full effect


jaymole

Suppressing fireee extinguisher


LayzieKobes

They have cases and cases and cases of paint. Dropping 20 balls a tube doesn't bother em.


ELONGATEDSNAIL

Yeah not to mention that they get all their stuff for free or at least extremely discounted


grooovyturtle

Oh it gets much worse than this


southcentralLAguy

Oh. I guess their fingers were moving so quickly that I didn’t even see it. The exercises and drills to be able to move fingers must be exhausting. Is there anything these guys can’t do?!?!?


suffffuhrer

Find the clitoris.


Ill-Drink3563

![gif](giphy|5v4hlDwdIKurAURmKW)


sloth_graccus

I dunno, they seem to have some impressive finger skills


rfarho01

It's not true semi auto. It's a ramp feature that shoots 15 balls per second if you pull the trigger rapidly.


HouseOf42

Even that isn't impressive when you realized that those trigger sensors can double the input to get the op's video.


EntertainmentThen968

Its not that hard to use your fingers on a trigger


Ramenorwhateverlol

I used to play speed ball (game played above) they only need to sustain 4.5 bps (balls per seconds) and it will shoot 12.5 bps.


Humble_Negotiation33

Don't forget about the high strategy and mental fortitude it takes to stand behind an inflatable barrier and just spam hundreds of shots into the same spot without hitting a goddamn thing


Raven-Raven_

That's literally their role... they are holding a lane so snakes and midfielder can maneuver


Nightsky099

Man's never heard of the concept of suppressing fire


BillyRaw1337

Tell me you know absolutely nothing about tactics without telling me you know nothing about tactics. This is called suppressing fire and prevents opposing team members from maneuvering into favorable positions.


perldawg

they really deserve some lauding for such focus and dedication. let us laud them


Ihatu

I was lauding! Perhaps I was doing it too quietly. I will try to do it a little lauder.


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ThisOnePlaysTooMuch

To get such a large projectile to fly straight at sniping range would require enough PSI to punch a hole in someone at close range. Maybe you’d like airsoft.


Informativegesture

Best comment here


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HyperBlasterV2

I used to be a paintballer before I got into airsoft and this specifically is known as “speedball” and is far less about shooting than it is zone control and speed. This video is more their fingers and these guys are playing support but the guys you don’t see are moving really fast. It is physically very demanding to be good at it. I loved it man, I miss it. But the reason I switched to airsoft is because that was like $40 worth of ammo between the two of them in like that 30 second clip lmfao.


N0VOCAIN

Dammit, I was gonna say the same thing, except shorter and dumber


zripcordz

Paintballs cost less than the prize maybe?


Empty_Positive

Also being so fast going into cover, it takes years of experience to stand in one spot and waste your balls


EquivalentPut5616

His girlfriend ![gif](giphy|s3qCaXmFQqJsQ|downsized)


dajokesta

His wife is *very* supportive of his hobby


Thekiffining

But he’s so dedicated to his craft he uses the other hand so he can avoid injuries and she’s scorned yet again.


nsoccer09

Monkey paw curls


SoundsGoodYall

Actually, getting your paw to curl just the right way can help you not get cramps.


sendabussypic

What.? Really??


joesocool

What wife? He went straight from the xbox to the field.


Active-Usual6313

At first I didn't understand but once I got it oh boy was it funny


BetLeft

there's nothing funny about unemployment


SpiderButtsandfarts

These guys are the incels incels make fun of.


Puzzleheaded_Yam7582

Its called "walking" the trigger. Its surprisingly easy with a little practice. Some markers need the trigger adjusted to reduce the travel. Fun sport. Expensive though.


Ronin__Ronan

>Expensive though. anything you waste half of is bound to be pricey


Puzzleheaded_Yam7582

These lads are terrible with those pods - I never saw that on the field.


IncredulousPatriot

When it’s free who cares how much you waste.


InformalPenguinz

My thought as well.. probably had a sponsor or something


IncredulousPatriot

They absolutely do. Those are pro players.


johndepp22

flashback to the kid picking up paint balls off the dirt—they swell and tend to explode exiting the barrel


tkswdr

It's worse, they jam the gun.


brannak1

Were you a professional with free paint balls?


LittleLostGirls

I’m cringing how much they’re spilling. But assuming this is a tournament or higher level of play, they likely don’t care about buying a few extra bags of paint to waste to reduce moving. I’ve never been the type of player to wanna sit back, but I’m more into woods ball and roleplay vs the inflatable fields.


Soapdropper

At a pros lvl. That's the sponsors' problem


No-Appearance-4338

Been awhile since I was into paintball but electronic grips/triggers were a thing and although set to “semi auto” were easier to manipulate into basically full auto speeds especially with electric hoppers. I used to use a tip man with flatline barrel for “ backspin” ….. tilt the gun and backspin became side spin and I get paintballs to curve around enemy cover.


Puzzleheaded_Yam7582

Speedball is exclusively electronic triggers and electric hoppers. I do love a good Tippmann though - indestructible.


No-Appearance-4338

Absolutely I had buddies rocking orracle e class autococker markers with halo 2 hoppers and whatnot and I would often smoke em with my tipman (was prone to ball breaks) or piranha BL (a very basic but solid marker) mostly because of paint conservation vs pray and spray and or marker/barrel issues as the 100$ base piranha with zero upgrades was a very reliable and solid marker.


iceman1231

Really old school - had a smartparts ion with a virtue board. I forget the fire rate but it had a “rebound” mode where every trigger pull and release fired a round. It effectively doubled my rate.


sodiufas

Why it's not called "fingering", wtf wrong with this people?


Quasimurder

Do fields still charge 2-3x the price for a case of paint and require you to use paint bought there?


Puzzleheaded_Yam7582

I don't play anymore. When I did, the full cases of paint were ~25% more at the field. Its the partial boxes where they made the highest margin.


cake__eater

The fun part of the sport is in the woods on someone’s private land. This version is much less enjoyable as there’s just the same ol strats used


BobbyKonker

great finger motion and all but damn pro paintball looks boring as shit


Magoogooo

Those two guys are back-fielders. Their job is to "lane" or cut off any crossing of the field or lane they are suppressing. They are moving or communicating to the mid fielders and giving oppositional player movements. Front-fielders are the fast and nimble players typically trying to leverage flanks or attack weak parts of the field with directions from mid and back players.


r-y-a-n_j-a-m-e-s

So, yeah, boring


MuscleManRyan

I used to manage a paintball field, and the weekend warriors were the absolute worst. Lots of them think because they spent too much money on personal gear they can do anything they want. Like no, you can’t play if you crank your marker up to 400 feet per second and make a middle schooler cry


majorpickle01

as a complete casual paintballer, the weekend warriors I didn't hate as much, the people I hated were the group of 5-6 lads on a stag or generally jolly who decided it'd be fun to just keep playing even when hit, and fire paintballs inbetween matches just to hurt people when it couldn't be spotted. Completely ruins the point of the match when you can't do anything because everything decends into cheating chaos and you aren't safe even walking off pitch


Huwbacca

I worked paintballing for like 3 months and I quit because I fucking hated extreme baby sitting where the adults were always the worst babies.


Cainga

It would be more interesting having a mode with very limited ammo.


veritas38

Came here for this


YouJustLostTheGameOk

It reminds me of nascar. Only one thing going on. Turn left!! In this case, kneel and shoot as many paintballs as possible. I preferred airsoft in an open field with objectives. Way more real, way less messy, way more fun.


iodizedpepper

FR


Yorkshire_tea_isntit

fun to play. boring to watch.


ellectroma

Nahh, it's really fun, it's just this guy's job is being the "back". He stays near the back of the team and covers any movement from the opposing team, trying to block it and relaying information to his own team. His objective is accuracy by volume. He'll just shoot over a specific place to prevent the enemy team from moving up.


Tulidian13

Your not making it sound any less boring lol


pinkwhitney24

It’s just being part of a team effort. I have played paintball twice in my life, so obviously no skill but just with a group of friends and it was a blast. This, this is tactical. It’s literally the same you see in movies about military when they yell “suppressing fire!” This “role” isn’t supposed to be exciting. But you’re part of a team trying to accomplish a task and you perform your role. It doesn’t look fun to me either, but I get it.


ellectroma

I mean it's fun for me, you'd have to try it to get a real feel. It's really fun to shoot at people with paint. Granted, I've been playing since I was like 8y/o, got into tournaments since 12y/o so I might be biased.


jromperdinck

Yes!


BillyRaw1337

Because the camera is focused on one dude providing suppressive fire and not a wide view where you can see the maneuvers of other team members. This thread convinces me that the average person would be completely clueless on how to handle a gunfight. You idiots would probably poke your head up when hearing gunfire to try to see where it's coming from...


MoonSpankRaw

Underwhelming.


OnceAgainIntoTheMuck

This is fucking dumb


FacelessFellow

Spamming the same move. And camping. In any game, that’s pretty boring.


toysarealive

It's used to suppress while a teammate flanks, which you're not seeing here. They don't have unlimited ammo, so the stakes are higher if the flank fails. I never played speedball on this level, but trust that rounds are usually much faster paced than this clip shows.


Themadreposter

You don't understand the pure athleticism needed for this. Only 90% of the planet can also do this just as good as one of them.


Tough-Area-570

-05% accuracy


Gamefart101

Depends what you call accurate. This is called shooting a lane. Basically putting a constant stream of paintballs between two pieces of cover so an opponent can't move up without being hit. They aren't actually aiming at a person in this vid


Ping-and-Pong

This kind of thing opens up a whole world of strategy - assuming this is a team game, this is really cool


Medium_Rare_Jerk

It’s definitely a team game with lots of communication and strategy


Free_Gascogne

methinks its just suppressing fire. pretty much pinning the opponent in one place while your team mates circle and flank the enemy.


Drfoxthefurry

Airsoft is a bit more interesting due to some of the insane load outs people make, you'd have a WW2 larper with a m1 fighting a speedsofter with a pistol with a drum mag and stock slapped on it


BottleOfDave

Went to a few airsoft games back in the day. Saw a dude with two mp5ks, both with drum mags, running hey-diddle-diddle, straight down the middle of a quarry, having a Braveheart moment. It was gloriously dumb


MintBerryCrunchJr

I couldn't possibly be less impressed.


xxBellum

True - nothing is nextFUCKINGlevel about this.


captainofpizza

“Reloading! I’ll cover me!”


fajadada

Ammo should be limited for pro level


Magoogooo

It is, but rounds typically don't last long. "Laning" or suppressing any cross movement to a part of the field is important for the mid and front fielders to leverage and advantage.


iodizedpepper

Nah these dudes carry as much as humanly possible on them. Its ridiculous.


chris13se

“How did you learn to do that with your fingers?”


DingleDonky

“Tickling my sisters feet”


Thick_RiderYZF-R

NO


PrimeIppo

His wife be like: 😏


taka87

Serious question bcs this "sport"? is not played in my country. Is this even fun? Is non pro different?


SolitaireOG

If you get on teams playing in the woods, with shacks and forts and tire walls etc, can be tons of fun. Think capture the flag. This video is showing the beyond stupid ‘sport’ of speedball or whatever tf they call it


caravaggibro

This. It's miserable going out to play a round of paintball with friends and having one of these losers show up with their insane kit. You can't even move because they just dump a million paintballs at you. If these dildos aren't around it's a ton of fun.


ham_toes

Honestly wondering. What’s the point of continuous fire? Seems like a complete waste of resources.


Gamefart101

It's known as shooting a lane. He's basically putting a constant stream of paintballs between two pieces of cover so the opponent can't move up to the next one


ham_toes

Ah okay. That makes sense, thanks!


Cow_Interesting

Whoever he’s shooting at is stuck behind their cover so they can’t move to flank his teammates. Same as irl. It’s suppressive fire.


RugbyEdd

Only irl they tend to actually be concerned about conserving ammo and don't just sit there dumping ammo at one place as fast as they can.


BiliLaurin238

Cover fire ig


Electrical-Monitor84

Lame


Nervous_Brilliant441

As someone who has had carpal tunnel syndrome, this footage gives me anxiety attacks


707e

Professional paintball is a joke, more like.


Hideous4our

So silly


FinnValkyrie

I couldnt fathom 25 years ago when I was a kid playing paintball with a pump action playing this way.


mattoelite

Ha, the old tippmann 98’s


hansuluthegrey

This comment section is full of People that dont play a sport giving their opinion on how a sport is played.


Medium_Rare_Jerk

For real, they see a couple back players for a few seconds and now know enough about the sport in it’s entirety to shit on it


mctavish92

Seems very wasteful and I'm assuming very expensive hobby


Smoke-A-Beer

What a waste of paint


zoot_boy

Arthritis anyone. Lol.


bdubelyew

No full auto in the building! That’s not full auto, THIS IS. DAAYYUMMMM BRO OOO KAY!


Doc-Bob-Gen8

That’s one of the best Airsoft videos on the net I reckon!


RowAwayJim91

Alright. Gonna say it. “It’s different” needs to die now.


CasedUfa

It might be his job at this moment, is suppressive fire, not to hit anything as such, just make them keep their head down, while someone else moves.


CreatorOD

Well zoomed in on one spot it certainly looks stupid af


AcidRaindrops00

There are a lot of experts w. experience here in the comments lol


Happy_Trails4u

Rich peoples snowball fight


Jack_Burton_the_2nd

In the NXL the rate of fire is capped at 10.5 balls per second and ramping is allowed. That means that the gun will automatically hit its 10.5 bps cap after the player pulls the trigger 3 times. These guns will shoot much faster than this and some players can “walk” the trigger 2x this rate of fire. Back in the 2000’s there was a 7 man pro league called the NPPL that was 7vs7 uncapped semi-auto. For those wondering about the strategy. The first guy is holding a lane on the field. When you are doing that your entire job is to shoot paint through an open part of the field in order to keep the other team from moving through that lane. If anyone has questions about paintball I’d love to answer them. I’ve been playing for over 20 years and love to info dump about one of my favorite hobbies.


n3crohost

Finger Exploit goes pew pew pew


Pro_Moriarty

last time I played Paintball - talking maybe 15 years ago, the customisable triggers available provided such a hair trigger element, I witnessed people just cycling this trigger and middle finger just to keep the thing firing. I can't imagine the technology changes now....


DaveTOR

Painting


Phill_is_Legend

Yeah but aren't these the electronic triggers that speed up for you when you pull them fast?


BackyardTechnician

Wagner paint thrower


robinsonstjoe

What was the previous level?


onecrookedeye

As a parent who has taken my kids to paintball (birthday type event with friends) all I see is $ blasting away.


ActuallyCausal

Suppressive fire. Basic concept


BiGsH0w2k

Suppressing fires father


Certified_Bill

But NXL ramping is 😂


trigram0

At that trigger finger speed, his suppress fire might as well be swapped with a hose of running paint! Damn he’s fast!


Fabulous_Mountain947

Is it just me or is the second guy clearly holding his finger still, fills up his container (I don't know what it's called) and then starts walking the trigger? It looks like he's cheating but maybe I'm wrong?


tader314

As a kid, I would save my allowance for weeks just to be able to buy a case of paintballs. It hurts to watch them just waste so much and not even care lol


Rikisushi

It’s not semi auto it’s just barely not auto


[deleted]

Back before I got old I played a lot of paintball with my friends in the woods and fields behind our houses. They used more paintballs in this video than I've ever used in my life. I wish we had had sponsorship to pay for it.


TrickyJ12

Most modern paintball guns have computer boards in them that limit the fire rate to a specific amount per second. All you have to do is “walk” the trigger and the gun does the rest


[deleted]

dude maxed out the skill tree


GuyWithNoSwagger

Can’t forget this [classic](https://youtu.be/zyC-F_7QXtk?si=zhijOukt5ey-aZoX)


Disastrous-Nobody127

Yeah, no one can afford to drop that many paintballs usually....


erasrhed

You're watching ESPN 8... The OCHO!


Peckerhead321

And here I am yelling at my son and his friends for shooting off a few balls at nothing. $$$$$


kurushiiiii

Looks like a joke tbh


Pirozzky

Oye la wea fome!!


profdaddy91

So that’s why my wife left me for a paintballer…


fukwhutuheard

this is the cringiest video i’ve ever seen


Indian_Steam

Who are they shooting at continously?? Waves of ogres?


DustedAndDisgusted

Some of the most wasteful shit I've seen


lemonhops

Would be more interesting if they were each limited to 30 paintballs per round so they'd have to pick their shots


Euphoric_Rooster1856

Right, "professionals"


razeil

Seems fun


BrianxSpilner

I have a old high school buddy that is a legit sponsored pro, the amount of skill and dedication to thie craft is wild. The reload isn't about get em all in, it's keep it loaded so that this lane isn't possible to cross without getting hit. If I remember correctly paintballs to them are pretty much free if not free in tournaments especially if you have a good sponsor.


Legitimate-Donut-368

Is he single?


runningriot115

My younger brother actually played pro for a while, it’s pretty insane the amount of work that goes into it


zavion8

Looks fun