Reballs are reusable rubber balls and should be fired at a lower velocity for less impact
There have also been a softer rubber ball under a different brand.
(Reball is a trademarked brand)
Reball centres were slightly popular a number of years ago and the reballs were also marketed as a practice ball for indoors.
A traditional paintball at a traditional woodland paintball site has fairly tough paintballs as they are made to last unknown periods of time due to the nature of rental sites never knowing if they will have high spenders shooting a lot or players being careful with their wallet.
Tournament events have a ‘higher quality’ paintball which needs gentle guns and will break at slight impact - provided they are fresh and well stored
A rental paintball can therefore appear to hit harder compared to a ‘tournament’ paintball due to their breaking point
I expect for reballs that you will be playing inside, ideally have a fixed price day for unlimited reballs (rather than starting with an amount and buying more), and shooting at a reduced velocity
Expect to be split into two sides, given a safety brief for the day, and a few ‘mission briefs’ for each game
Listen to the briefs, keep your goggles on when in the game area to avoid becoming blind, avoid picking up reballs off the ground (they will pickup all the dust and the site staff won’t appreciate the gun jams when the dirt accumulates)
Pain is subjective in paintball. The worst you should get is like a slap, it hurts on impact then disappears. Bruises are to be expected with standard paintballs when hit from fairly close, and may or may not occur with reballs depending on proximity / velocity / and bare or clothed skin
Start the day with some anticipation / excitement to begin the adrenaline and that will cover any impact
I have been shot a lot as player, event organiser, photographer and also as Guinea pig target for an automated sentry gun.
Ive had many bruises of many shapes and sizes - but I’m weird. It’s not necessary to sneak up as close as a I have done
Go out and have fun
I’ll add a footnote on legality, but if the site seems legitimate and looks like they know what they are doing then things shoud be good
(If it’s Go Ballistic then they are reputable)
There is a legal grey area in the paintball community about them, as only standard gelatine paintballs and a shaped ‘first strike’ have been formally recognised as ‘frangible’ due to them being designed to break on impact. This ties in with ‘lethality’ under legislation —— it is a reasonable argument that rubber reballs at an appropriate velocity will be legal to shoot at people as they will be unable to penetrate/damage skin or clothing