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12-07-2004, 02:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Kingston, ONT, Canada. | | | Paintball and Bass?
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A little while ago, sitting, bored, in math class, I began to think about my two favourite pastimes... bass (of course), and paintball! I've been 'balling for some time, even at a local tourney level a few times. Being a back player, I'm often required to move my fingers like blazing hell, stringing lots of paint at a high rate in order to pin people into their bunkers. This got me wondering: "damn! all that fast trigger walking is done with the same fingers I use to play the bass! There's got to be some sort of benefit to my fingerstyle technique, and the bass fingerwork probably helps with firing consistency..." I realized that fingerstyle bass and competitive paintball were a match made in heaven.
I guess my point is that other activites could often foster better bass technique: any TB'ers (or TB paintballers???) have similar things that they do?
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12-07-2004, 02:44 PM
| | Smoke-free since 4/3/05 | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Dayton, OH | | You've got a fellow Paintballer right here!  Though I don't go to tournaments, I do enjoy hitting up a local playing field with a friend or 2 about once a month, weather and wife permitting of course. |
12-07-2004, 05:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Gladstone, QLD, Australia | | Not the right forum...should be under miscellaneous. 
Sheesh...where are the moderators when you need them? 
Just playing around. I got smacked yesterday for a similar thing  |
12-07-2004, 05:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Boston, Ma | | i used to go paintballing when i lived in WA because the forests in our backyards stretched out forever, so we would buy a couple thousand paintballs and tents and go camp out somewhere for the weekend and have wars. but sadly there is no big forest in my backyard here in CA... 
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12-07-2004, 05:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Ohio | | The bassplayer always wins when I'm paintballing 
...and they hate me because of it too!
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12-07-2004, 06:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Windsor, Ont, Canada | | | Paint balling is fun cause I shoot people. I don't like getting shot. I remember when I was trying to sleep after the first time I went. I kept having this feeling I'm still being hunted and shot at.
I'll stick with bass. |
12-07-2004, 06:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Ohio | | | So you don't PB anymore?? Oh come on!!!
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12-07-2004, 06:39 PM
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12-07-2004, 09:56 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | | Former paintball player here. I only had so much money, I'd prefer to put it towards bass.
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12-07-2004, 10:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Ontario | | I found that tapping on my fretless increased my typing abilities, and vice versa. The whole "bass player grip" thing helps out with a lot of things too, like getting into pesky jars. Also, it helps in putting guitarists in their place -- one of the guitarist tried that "shake hands and squeeze as hard as possible" with our drummer and was pretty even. I hadn't done this since before even starting bass more than two and a half years ago, so he and I went and I just kinda...crushed his hand  .
Is there any truth to horn players being good kissers, anyone?
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12-08-2004, 06:54 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Alexandria, VA | | | Paintball rules, until you get shot in the crotch. Avoid at all costs. Hasn't improved my bass playing at all, but it's still a great time!
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12-08-2004, 07:26 AM
| | Smoke-free since 4/3/05 | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Dayton, OH | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by HollowMan227 Paintball rules, until you get shot in the crotch. Avoid at all costs. Hasn't improved my bass playing at all, but it's still a great time! | A buddy of mine got hit right in the 'taint' with a paintball flying at 300 feet per second.
...he doesn't play anymore. |
12-08-2004, 10:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Ohio | | A decent pair of jeans will cut down on that allot. Plus, anyone hear of a cup? 
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12-08-2004, 11:23 AM
| | Smoke-free since 4/3/05 | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Dayton, OH | | | I myself wear, and 90% of the players at my local fields wear camoflage army fatigues, which is a little thinner than denim jeans. Makes for better hiding while in the brush, is a little cooler during the summer months, but gives a little less protection from bruises. I don't know of a single person who wears a cup while in the field, though I'm sure someone does. |
12-08-2004, 11:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Ohio | | | I agree. I wear the same, but mine are made from a heavier "jean" type material. Adds a little more ptotection. Of course, I've been known to just walk straight across the field at my targets...
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12-08-2004, 12:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Washington, DC / Ithaca, NY | | | I'm a paintballer. I play routinely on the local tourney level, but I'm selling my gun to get a better stack. New gun in the spring, methinks. Powerlyte Isis... mmm... |
12-08-2004, 02:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Windsor, Ont, Canada | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by cgworkman So you don't PB anymore?? Oh come on!!! |
I've gone a few times with my friends after the that. But I don't think I would ever buy my own stuff and make it a regular thing. |
12-08-2004, 03:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: San Rafael CA | | I used to go paintballing, but don't do it anymore. I bought an Autococker over a year ago when all my friends were getting paintball guns. I only used mine once before all my friends quit and decided to spend their money on drugs and alcohol (underaged too). I would really like to get started up in paintball again, but I don't have the money to support it. Right now my gun is just colleting dust.  |
12-08-2004, 03:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Winnipeg Canada | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Govithoy Is there any truth to horn players being good kissers, anyone? | i played trombone in juniour high band and i could leave a hicky on a girl that would last like a month. I dunno if i was a better kisser though |
12-08-2004, 08:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: NW Indiana. | | | My hand endurance increased after playing the bass and i really helps with the piano.
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