Arash Hosseini

Early life

Arash Hosseini, born on June 25, 1983, was an energetic boy for whom games had a meaning much more than mere fun. His earliest involvement with boyhood games were all “experiments,” he himself recalls, down in the basement of their house, usually accompanied by his cousins. With his craze for perfection, soon he left those unrealistic hobbies and merged into more serious ones, such as “selling his stuff to his uncles by force” he says. Never a passive boy obeying others, he was a true daredevil ready for the extreme! Though often advised to study his books instead of wandering into nature, Arash had many pets and he even tried to take some of them back to their home in nature. “I was learning the laws of the world and basics of communication, as I truly cared for what I was doing with my life.”

Education

Arash majored in math for his high school and got his diploma in math. “I was never the brightest in my class,” he remembers, “but I cared for my time and my life.” He studied Computer at university, specializing in Computer Software. His motto is “When I can busy myself reading books when I’m too old to play games, I don’t spend my youth doing that!” After all, his involvement with university education “made it clear that time flies and we have to fly with it!” he believes.

Sports career

Early in his teens, he found skating so interesting that soon he mastered it and it became his earliest rather serious involvement with sports. Becoming a professional skater and soon a professional coach in his home town, he found that skating was not his end. In 2004 he started Paintball and made his way into many paintball teams in his country Iran, as well as other teams around the world. He is a paintball champion in his country and has participated in the Asian Paintball League with Malaysian and Australian teams. He was also a professional paintball coach in Asia. After his bright—though short—activity in paintball, he turned to the newly emerging extreme sport, Laser Tag. “Laser tag,’ he says, “breaks the limits of fighting scenarios and knows no limit!” With many new opportunities as a game, laser tag became his new craving and “it was high time he became a tagger!” he says. Later, he opted for laser tag manufacturing and laser tag club establishment as to remain active in the field.

Professional activities

Following his involvement with paintball clubs around the country, he was selected a top-level Dye & Proto dealer in Iran and did his best to further develop paintball in the country. However, it was not paintball that marked his future.

Due to its economic advantages over paintball as well as its simplicity and appropriateness for people from different classes of society, laser tag soon found its place in his mind. Following this, he officially registered laser tag in the Iranian Sport for All Federation. Next, he became the first chairman of Iran Laser Tag Committee and started to develop laser tag even more. Then he founded the first laser tag club of Iran in Shahin Shahr, Iran. Later on, he established laser tag clubs in various cities in Iran and managed to officially register his own brand of laser tag, ‘Proshut’. After a short time, Proshut laser tag equipment, now a nationally renowned brand in Iran, made it to country-wide tournaments and currently leads laser tag market all through Iran. Since 2011, in Science and Technology Park of Mazandaran, Iran, he has been manufacturing Proshut Laser Tag.

Arash has won many awards for his activities and development of Proshut laser tag equipment. He participated in numerous occasions with Proshut Laser Tag, including “Shooting, Hunting, Horseback Riding Exhibition” (Shefsport), International Police, Safety & Security Equipment Exhibition (IPAS), to name but a few.

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Mazandaran State Science and Technology Park