I think the question is kinda a compound one. First off, we all play the game at different levels. It's kinda like taking the guy that goes out and plays soccer once or twice a year with his kids, and making him be the "standard" level of finnesse/gross motor control needed in soccer. Tyger, I know that you have played the sport in some pretty competative arenas and at a fairly high level, so you should have some sense of the "foot skill" of good paintball players. Rec paintballers treat the game, and the way they train for the game completely different than those that are playing in the upper echelon of the sport. The way I train for paintball is the same way that many people train for soccer, football, and tennis. I do sprints, long runs, upper body, and torso workouts that are all designed to bring the strengths of the body together as one core strength. At any rate, I think that the best paintball players have the same level of command over their bodies as many of their sporting counterparts do, it's just that those skills are not really honed in the rec player, so they are not realized about the professional.
So, can we dance? I can, but it's not cause I am have a certain fittness level, that helps, but it's because I go dancing a lot. I don't think that you could just hand Fred Astair a paintball marker and he'd turn into Ollie Lang, do you? I think that paintball is actually of the most physically demanding sports in the world. One main issue that I see is that there are NO players at any level of the game that are playing to the extreme potential of the human body. That is unlike other sports where everyone is so close to the bleeding edge of athletic refinement that the only way to have the edge is through drugs.
The superman slide is really a bad thing for the spine. The reason that it is such has to do with the differnce in speed of the halves of the body once you're hitting the ground. At the moment you touch down, you're generally comming to the ground first with your chest/upper body, and then your quads and the rest of your lower body follows... That's cause the diver's feet are usually kicked up like a heels-over-head flip. Anyhow, the upper body touches down first and instead of the whole body traveling at speed x through the air, half of the body is slowed by the friction of the ground to speed x-y, while the lower half the the body and the hips are still going through the air at speed x. Now, it's only for an instant that the 2 speeds are affecting the body, but it's enough time to compress all of the lower vertabrae and bend the spine in the wrong way.
-kyro
So, can we dance? I can, but it's not cause I am have a certain fittness level, that helps, but it's because I go dancing a lot. I don't think that you could just hand Fred Astair a paintball marker and he'd turn into Ollie Lang, do you? I think that paintball is actually of the most physically demanding sports in the world. One main issue that I see is that there are NO players at any level of the game that are playing to the extreme potential of the human body. That is unlike other sports where everyone is so close to the bleeding edge of athletic refinement that the only way to have the edge is through drugs.
The superman slide is really a bad thing for the spine. The reason that it is such has to do with the differnce in speed of the halves of the body once you're hitting the ground. At the moment you touch down, you're generally comming to the ground first with your chest/upper body, and then your quads and the rest of your lower body follows... That's cause the diver's feet are usually kicked up like a heels-over-head flip. Anyhow, the upper body touches down first and instead of the whole body traveling at speed x through the air, half of the body is slowed by the friction of the ground to speed x-y, while the lower half the the body and the hips are still going through the air at speed x. Now, it's only for an instant that the 2 speeds are affecting the body, but it's enough time to compress all of the lower vertabrae and bend the spine in the wrong way.
-kyro
. Although I think burning my retinas out may have been healthier for my brain!
, their in my cool book
dance damn you!!! dance!!!!!! 
. I guess paintballers just cant dance.
It's amatter of exposure for the therapist, and once he's seen more paintball stuff I get a feeling this'll get a lot more interesting.
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