How to Avoid Friendly Fire While Playing Paintball

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is John. Now, let’s talk a little bit about something called friendly fire. What this is about is when a teammate of yours happens to mistake you for opposing team and hits you with a paint ball. Don’t get angry, just find out after the match why he couldn’t recognize you or what may have happened. One of the ways to prevent this from happening is use an armband. Here I have a white armband on. This distinguishes that I’m a member of the team, the white armbands. So if I see someone else out on the playing field I know not to shoot at them. Also, what you can do is use codes. This was used in World War II, where you see someone or you hear someone, you don’t know if they are enemy or not. What you do is you shout out two word phrase. Say star, and if somebody says wars, then that is one of your teammates. If you say that and they don’t know the password, the code, then they’re an opposing member, then you can open fire on them."