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Running Like Mad I can still remember one of my first times to take a mad dash in paintball. I was a new player joining a group of established players out in the woods and I had spent most of the morning kind of following other people around and mimicking what they did. In one game, though, the people I was with got out and I ended up all alone, knowing that someone on the field had a new Angel (which had just come out and was the first electro I had ever seen). All of a sudden I heard the Angel shooting which seemed to me to be shooting a thousand times a second and I took off running. I remember running through trees, trying to dodge paintballs (which I later figured out weren't even being shot at me as the guy with the Angel was on my team) and I ran as fast as I could towards the opposing base, firing as fast as I could at each shadow or tree branch. I eventually found a semi-safe bunker near the base and hunkered down and waited out the game. All in all I'm quite confident that I never came close to actually hitting anyone and I definitely stopped short of actually capturing the flag. The adrenaline I felt, though, changed my perspective of how to play paintball. Years later and many many failed mad dashes later (and a few successful ones), I still get that same feeling when I take off on a mad dash. It's one reason why I love the game.Running Like Mad originally appeared on About.com Paintball on Monday, October 25th, 2010 at 16:19:45.Permalink | Comment | Email this paintball.about.com |