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Hey everybody, this is John Jackson with Archery Tag. Welcome, we're going to do another video
demonstration of Archery Tag
versus paintball! Uh... I'm here with Brendan Pierce.
Would you say you're a pretty avid paintballer?
Oh definitely.
And you got introduced to Archery Tag a couple months back...
Oh yes, I've been hooked ever since.
You offered to volunteer your body
for research.
Uh... what are we gonna do today?
Well, essentially so many people
seem to be afraid of the Archery Tag
that I decided to be your guinea pig and let people see that the Archery Tag
arrows shot from ten feet away don't hurt nearly, nearly as bad as
paintball ones.
They don't leave welts, marks, anything like as you'll get to see in this
video.
So you're gonna let us shoot you with paintballs to show the welts that they create.
What a guy.
Okay, we're going to start out with the arrows first
so that we can show what kind of impact they have.
So for that we'll probably ask you to
take your shirt off and turn around and
we'll go ahead and shoot you in the back.
So we've got eight Archery Tag arrows here with the nice soft foam tip!
And we're going to pace off about ten feet...
Now these arrows will ricochet back because he is kinda close.
But that's alright.
You ready?
There's one!
Two!
How's it feel?
Did you start yet?
Haha!
Three!
Four!
I think a butterfly just landed on my back!
Five!
Six! ...That's your favorite spot.
I'm a good shot.
Seven!
Eight.
Now, our typical safety zone is
twenty feet.
I'm shooting him from about ten feet away
bareback,
no protection.
Let's see what we got here.
Well, don't really see...
maybe a little bit of a
just a little bit of a redness there where I smacked him
two or three times in the same spot.
Okay, now let's try paintballs.
Putting my jersey on for this so it'll be easier to clean up too. Okay.
You're a heck of a sport! Thank you!
Now we're going to be a little further away with the paintball because of the uh...
Say that again?
We're going to stand a little further away with the paintball than the
Archery Tag arrow.
How far away?
You walk, you tell me.
I'd say this is far enough! Okay.
Just uh... not in the butt, not in the back of the head, please. Got it!
Sight's pretty accurate? Yeah.
By the way, it's at two hundred forty feet per second.
Two hundred forty feet per second compared to an Archery Tag arrow which is
about ninety.
*groaning in pain*
That all eight? Yeah.
Were you counting? Yeah.
I can double-check.
Yep, that's all of 'em.
Whew!
That didn't hurt, did it?
Oh yeah, it tingles a bit.
Tingles a little bit?
OWWW!
There's your paintball damage!
Maaan!
It's a lower ones that really hurt. Wow!
This one looks really sore!
By the way, two hundred forty feet per second is extremely low
in the sport of paintball. It's typically two hundred eighty feet per second.
That uh... forty feet adds up quite a bit. Yeah, I'll bet.
I'll bet.
Well, I'm sorry to hurt ya like that, but man!
The welts will really start showing up in the next minute or two.
Oh really?
Are they showing up pretty decent already? Yeah, that one's really...that's quite beautiful, isn't it?
It's like battle scars.
So to summarize folks, which would you rather
get hit by?
An Archery Tag foam-tipped arrow?
Or a paintball?
I'd say the choice is pretty clear.
Also, there's no mess with
Archery Tag.
There's no gun to clean,
there's no
there's no mess on your clothing...
Tell me about the clean-up!
Uh...
It's actually, it's part of paintball.
I spend after every weekend that I play approximately ten hours cleaning
all my gear.
My clothes have to be washed separately
from all other clothes in the washer.
Some of them have to line-dry, some can run through the dryer.
My equipment themselves, the paintball markers, those take
anywhere from half an hour to an hour per piece.
And if you get shot with the round right in your marker,
you got to dismantle the whole thing to clean it up.
You have none of that with Archery Tag.