A Parent S Guide To Paintball

An essential guide for parents, youth sports organizations, players or anyone seeking solid information about the sport. A PARENT'S GUIDE covers everything from the history of the game to rules of play, equipment and buying guides, essential contact information and advice for parent's mentoring paintball playing youths. Steve Davidson, author of "MAXING: A GUIDE TO WINNING TOURNAMENT PLAY and THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO PAINTBALL brings over two decades of paintball experience to the subject of youth paintball. In A PARENT'S GUIDE, Davidson blends historical anecdotes, amusing stories and practical information into an easy to read introduction to the sport written just for parents. Packed with a wealth of detailed information, this primer covers everything from safety and medical considerations to basic rules of play.

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It can be as playful as a party game, or as dead serious as military training for a coming deployment. But whatever your approach to paintball or Airsoft, there are rules to learn, tactics to master, variations to discover, and equipment to consider. And in every instance, Paintball and Airsoft Battle Tactics has the answers. The ultimate resource for these sports so popular among weekend warriors and military simulators, this book helps novice players and veterans alike to hone their skills and sharpen their understanding of the art and science of MilSim strategy and tactics. Written by a military analyst with real-world experience training combatants around the world, this paintball and Airsoft tacticians bible refreshes and refocuses the military simulator, but it doesnt stop there. It also fosters, mentors, and challenges both the apprentice and the maestro with basic individual and leadership skills, team drills, and intermediate patrolling operations, covering all the necessities for waging paintball and Airsoft combat successfully at the small-team level.

Capturing the excitement and energy of this dynamic game, this revised edition features the latest information on paintball guns and technology, a fitness for paintball section, and expanded field listings, including Canada and other countries. 500 photos.

Though it has been around for only a few decades, paintball is an incredibly popular sport. Paintball fans will appreciate the history of the sport that is offered here, as well as the discussion of tactics that will help them dominate the competition. Neophytes will also find this title valuable, with its overview of how the game is played proving particularly useful. Sidebars offer extra information, while dynamic photos of paintball players in action are sure to capture readers’ attention. A great resource on a high-interest topic.

Are you a parent concerned with your child's educational success? Or are you a teacher looking for practical suggestions for your student's family? In either case, this A to Z guide is for you. Based on nearly two decades of experience as a teacher and a principal, Shirley Dickinson has put together a succinct yet comprehensive primer for parenting. She covers important topics such as the Internet, parent-teacher conferences, gangs, and homework, in a way that parents and teachers will find eye-opening. With this book, you have a survival guide for kindergarten through high school.

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