Childrens Paintball. What’s the minimum age?
Paintball has always been an adult sport or pastime. But over the last few years, there have been a number of innovations to the paintball equipment and the paintballs themselves meaning that we can now offer children’s paintball.
New Children’s paintball equipment.
When you as a parent were young and you went paintballing, no doubt you left the venue black and blue. In the olden days, that’s what happened with paintball. Now your son or daughter has come home and expressed an interest in paintball and you immediately think back to when you were young.
Well, with the addition of new kid’s paintball equipment, you can relax. Your son/daughter is not going to come home covered in bruises. They will come home a bit fitter, completely shattered and with great memories.
So what has changed?
To answer this, we need to go through some boring science, but read on and you will see how paintball has changed. It’s all to do with the energy of a paintball.
When you played paintball, you will have been using an old-fashioned, .68 cal paintball. The gun you will have used will have been a gas (Co2 or Air) powered paintball gun firing at around 300 feet per second. This velocity and the size/weight of the paintball give an impact energy. This is around 13 joules of energy. Things are different now with Children’s Paintball.
Today, at the Yorkshire Paintball Centre, for our adult players, we use a smaller paintball. Even though this smaller paintball shoots at a higher velocity, the impact energy is only around 5 joules. This means that the paintballs in the adult version of paintball at YPC (12 years +) hit you with one-third of the energy of the old-fashioned paintball. We call it Paintball 2.0. This lower energy means that players do not go away bruised.
What about the Children’s paintball?
At the Yorkshire Paintball Centre, we have a specially designed pump action paintball gun which we use with our kid’s paintball groups. There is no air or CO2 bottle, the paintball gun is spring-fired. We use the smaller paintballs, but the gun only fires at 120 feet per second. So in terms of joules of energy, the paintball impacts with around 1.6 joules of energy. This is around 10 times less impact energy than when you played paintball when you were at school all of those years ago.
The result of this new equipment is that your kids are perfectly safe, will not come home bruised, but will come home fitter, shattered and above all, full of memories of a great day out in the woods playing with their friends.
To find out more about our kids paintball events, please click here – kids paintball games.
Book Kids Paintball (10 Players)
The minimum group size is ten players for Junior Paintball. There is no maximum number.
It is £22.50 per player. (10% Discount for 10 am Slot)
This gives all the equipment needed and also 300 paintballs per participant.
All players must be in school year five and above.
Book Gelball (10 Players)
GelBall is an exclusive event, so your group will play independently.
The minimum group size is ten players, with no maximum.
It’s £22.50 per player (10% Discount if you choose the 10 am slot). This includes all the equipment needed and unlimited ammo per game.
All participants must be in school year 5 or older.
Please see below links to PDF’s you may find useful.
Gelball Party Invitations
Directions
More pages you may find of interest.
Does paintball hurt?
Kids paintball at the Yorkshire Outdoor Activity Park
Kids Paintball – A safe and fun activity for children
How Paintball Equipment Has Changed Over Time!
Paintballs Journey
