Quote: (09-12-2018 01:52 PM)AneroidOcean Wrote:
Quote: (09-11-2018 09:27 AM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote:
Paintball teaches you a couple of things right quick that are probably extremely valid in terms of short range real world firefights.
1) You are not fucking fit enough.
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While much of what the rest of what you wrote is valid, the vast majority of paintball matches do not involve some real high level of fitness. Maybe at the highest levels most of the guys are physically fit, but not in the trenches so to speak.
The point about fitness is that the fitter you are, the better able your are to think straight in stressful situations. No one's thinking straight when they're sucking air, hyperventilating when a couple 50m sprints is enough to drop them to their knees.
Besides that the fact that the fitter you are means the longer you can go - this is the chief reason why both sports and military place a premium on fitness (for the military - endurance especially).
Fit body. Fit mind.
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