Being a marshall at a Rental site, I normaly have to run into the middle of a fire fight to fix some poor noob's de-cocked gun/open hopper lid/fallen off barrel/ outta gas gun. to advoid getting lit up like a christmas tree by their trigger happy opposition, i get good practise by sliding into the bunker with the helpless noob. i find it easier to 'baseball' slide, feet first, being carefull not to impale the player with my football ('soccer' for you yanks
) boots. its all about judgement, timeing it right. the foot first gets you right behind the cover, and lying right on the floor. a good trick is to practise forward diving rolls with a crash mat. get good just diving head first onto the mat, and rolling out with hurting yourself. then, try to stand up using the momentum from the dive. then, add a pball marker and mask. after you can do this with out killing yourself, put the mask and marker down, and try diving over a SMALL, SOFT obsitcle. then, after you get good it it, add marker and mask. after that, rase the heigh and solidity slowly, trying not to kill yourself! This move rases eyebrows at the site, and makes for a quick dive for cover if your bunkering move goes off half cocked! beleive it or not, i can actuly clear 1.5 meters high jump by running at it and diving headfirst over it like i do in Pball. i take no liability for injry occring out of attemps to follow the above. breck your neck, your on your own!
Eddie
