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Tournament Paintball Coach - How to find one?

shoaibaktar

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Hey guys thanks for the advice!

Would you happen to know any such qualified persons? From where we are now, we'd like to play division 3 at CPPS next year, and continue up the divs over the coming seasons. International tournaments would also be on the menu, but the idea is to get the team well organised and proficient so we can (hopefully!) achieve our goals

Thanks!
You are heading in the right direction Henry ,just by realising you need one.You will need to put together a set up for a coach to come in to. By that I mean most teams training is just points ,more points long chat ,pay up and home . The training at the start of the season ,should be different from that once you are several tourny's in . Doing the CPPS as a weekend ,ie train Sat play Sun is a good way to start to get the team into a train and play mentality. As a team you can do a lot of the organising and having a team ready to play yourselves. Also if you get the coaching from one visit and utilise for a second session you can do without a permanent presence.Obviously you need them there at tournies.You can also "filter and evaluate" their input as to whether it's working. As to finding one ,you will have to trawl around as this sport is light on coaches ,despite having a wealth of talent in playing,coaching is not as easy ,as imparting what you know is another skillset. Dave Stewart ,former coach of Notorius has a FB page .Ian Hudson coached Defiance and Shock Kids .Im not sure what Scuddy is doing now but again no harm in asking. If you come up dry,another route is to find a current player prepared to help you out .You seem to train at Bricket so that gives you a base that you can search from. I will ask around the Nexus ,tigers and new team coming to see if anyone is willing to help.As they will be around and at CPPS ,you never know .Best of luck Henry .
 

Shepherd:03

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Hi!

If your struggling to find a coach of your own, my team often attend J&L Paintball Club at Bricket Wood, alongside London Uprising. It's run by some older players and Dave Stewart often attends to help out. It's not the same as having your own full time coach, but it is useful for learning some drills to take away and work on your own. It's aimed at all levels from beginner up, so may not be fully relevant for your team but could help.

The usual format is warm up, sometimes fitness work and various drills in the morning and then an afternoon of scrimming (Race 2 format), which helps get you ready for tournaments and putting those drills into practice.

Details of the last event are here:
http://p8ntballer-forums.com/threads/j-l-paintball-club-bricketwood.171067/
I'm not sure when the next event will be.
 

Buddha 3

Hamfist McPunchalot
At your level your best bet is to train and play with teams better than you. get beaten, whopped but learn from it. Figure out why you got beaten then go fix it and try again.
You don't need to be paying a coach. Yet.

Approach other teams, they may be glad of the training partners, go to training days run by pro players and listen to what they're telling you, don't go flat out to try and impress them, just learn.

Even getting your team down to watch other teams training will be a massive help, you will all know what's expected of you then.
This!!!
Also, finding out why you lost to another team is usually easy. Just ask them.