![]() ![]() So what we do is to put it up against 1-inch pine boards. You can put it up against clay, but you have to keep the temperature right in order for it to show anything, and most people don’t understand what happens when you hit clay with a certain amount of force. We’ve done that, but people think that their body is going to look like a gel torso when it’s done, that it’s not going to hurt. How can we simulate that and show people what that’s going to feel like?” So with body armor we said, “Let’s take the worst-case scenario. What I want to do is give people an idea that they can relate to as to what the actual product will do. We won’t shoot armor unless somebody’s already lab tested it. Tell me more about your evaluation process. Since then, we’ve been working with Safe Life Defense every time they come out with a new product, and I’ve been wholly impressed with everything they make, because their penchant is always, “Let’s just overbuild the crap out of this and make it the most protective thing that we possibly can at the price point so people who need to buy their own stuff can know that they’re protected.” I can get down with that. I made the video, and we gave one of the vests away. The price point of their original vest was something like $400, and for someone that’s used to spending $1,200 on just a soft armor vest, I thought, “For $400, how good is this going to be?” So three buddies and I took it out, fully expecting to shoot it and be like, “Well, this is what you get for 400 bucks.” We shot it with everything that we had and couldn’t get anything to go through it. I’ll give the other one away because I have a vest for work already.” I didn’t need another one – and honestly, I didn’t really expect the result that we got when they sent us the original vest. He asked did I want to shoot their armor, and I said, “Yeah. I had probably a few thousand subscribers at the time Nick from Safe Life Defense contacted me. I was covering simple things that you don’t want to have to teach 30 different people 30 different times, and I was making videos and posting them on YouTube so I wouldn’t have to carry a flash drive around anymore.Īnd it started to get kind of a following. They started contacting me early on when I was making videos for work. How did you get involved with Safe Life Defense? When I found out that a lot of people didn’t really understand how body armor works or what it would feel like if you got hit with it – and had a lot of misconceptions, mostly based on the internet of what it can do, what it can’t do – we decided, when we get body armor, we’re just going to shoot it. The goal of the YouTube channel was always to provide what I can in open source training. I’m still a patrolman and still teach our new guys who come to the department. I decided maybe I’d make it into a little side project, and that’s what led me to where I am today. It was really never anything I intended on doing long term, but teaching other people the basics of law enforcement is something that I’ve really excelled at. About four years into my career, I became a field training officer. I started in 2006 with a little suburb right off the south edge of Chicago. What’s your background and your current role in policing? Tommy of Free Field Training has tested several vests from Safe Life Defense and has been so impressed that he wears one himself and recommends them to fellow officers. ![]()
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