Dynasty Clinic
Hollywood Sports Park, CA.
10/01 - 10/02
What a weekend! The weather was beautiful for a weekend of paintball. The temperature was in the mid eighties with little-to-no humidity and no rain in site. Hollywood Sports Park is a great place that caters to many sports besides paintball. However, their paintball fields are great, some being grass, dirt, and astro-turf. There are also some scenario fields that would blow your mind!
There were 42 participants in the clinic, including Matthew (The Heretic). After registration and some introductions, the group was split into smaller groups for drills. To warm up first, all attendees had to do some stretching and then run two laps around the field. Each sub-group had Dynasty coaches to work with them.
They started with the fundamentals – one shot check-in drills to begin with. After this came 1-on-1 (multi-shot) snap shooting contests and bunker wrapping drills. These became competitive contests in which the losers had to run more laps – including the Dynasty coach!
There were also running and shooting drills where you had to shoot with your left hand, or whatever hand you were least comfortable with. For this particular exercise, we used the “4 corners” drill where each set of two players started at opposite corners of the field and ran along the tapeline shooting at the player in the other side. They also did exercises designed to get you used to running a lane and shooting stationary targets on either side of the lane while changing from right to left-handed shooting.
The second day was allocated for the 5-man mini tournament. The players chose their own teams and each was assigned Dynasty coaches to help with strategy, tactics, etc. Matthew’s coaches were Angel Fragoza and Johnny Perchak. There were teams that were short some people but they had Dynasty players fill in with the limitation that they couldn’t move up from the back bunkers.
The last part of the day was a full-on Dynasty versus student scenario game in one of the fields at the park. This one happened to be at the field that had a Starship Troopers design. Anyway, it was an incredible game and unfortunately the student lost this one. They were informed beforehand by Jon Almeras that they have never lost one of these games!
After the game, there was a raffle and general hanging out until it was over. All in all it was a great experience and there was much learned from it. I would recommend this clinic to players of any level. We are planning on going back next year but this time with some other players.