I've been thinking about this one for quite a while and finally had a chance to try it.  Super fun!

This is the first time I had more than one camera (phone camera) running.  The second camera is my old phone, so you'll notice the quality isn't as good when it switches over.  Also the direction I had it pointing wasn't quite right so it only pickup a handful of shots.  It's still pretty cool to see another angle though.

Enjoy!

https://youtu.be/NBN_tjsWxpI

That looks fun! :D

So much fun.  I have a friend who saw the video and wants to try it.  He doesn't sling but I told him I would throw for him.

A shield is something I want to make at some point. Jaegoor's video of slinging with a shield would be interesting to recreate.

I hadn't seen that one.  Had to go look it up.  A recreation with another take on it could be very cool.

Times like this I wish I had another slinger nearby.  It would be fun to put together some non-harmful ammunition, like some sock balls or something.  And do some battling with sling and shield.

I would love to do that. If you make it over to Finland sometime, I'll gladly do battle with you :D

A pair of safety glasses a shield and a understanding that we only try trow at each other from 30m or further. Sounds like a great day at the park and keeps to social distance measures

30 m?!  That's one heavy duty sock ball.  ;)  ;D

oh wow. that look like a lot of fun. why i never thought about this myself? lol. but i'm only a delicious recipes chef so that's only a hobby for me.
be honest, have you thought about this while staying in quarantine? lol
will try it and might update a video too  ;D

lol - is that possibly the worst underhand throwing ever ?

I see you did get a little better :-)

Looks like fun :thumb:

Give me a break!  :)

That was literally my first time doing that.  Other than a few 'proof of concept' throws before setting up cameras.

I also found that throwing straight up was more difficult to get the hang of than I expected.  At the beginning everything was going behind me.

lol - to be fair my slinging party trick is to sling straight up hold out my hand and catch without moving.
I've probably had more practice than most :-)

Underhand is best of you keep your arm still by your side and just use your wrist - keeps it closer to your body and gives you a more vertical throw.

Yes this was fun! Came to mind: I have for sling tests a motorcycle helmet. It could receive hits. :D

Wow that sound of it hitting the shield is incredibly satisfying.  ;D  This kind of makes me wish we had larger versions of paintballs to sling at each other. One group could stay in a make shift fort and the other could lay siege.  Paintglandes! the catch phrase could be “Hold My Mead.”  ;D

Yestan wrote on May 1^st, 2020 at 11:43am:

oh wow. that look like a lot of fun. why i never thought about this myself? lol be honest, have you thought about this while staying in quarantine? lol will try it and might update a video too  ;D

Sorry Yestan, I completely missed your post.  Welcome to the forum!  I actually got the idea to try this last winter.  But I wanted to wait until the weather was good enough so I could run across the yard without having to look where I was going.

I hope you give it a try and post a video.  I'd love to see it.



Morphy wrote on May 1^st, 2020 at 6:38pm:

This kind of makes me wish we had larger versions of paintballs to sling at each other. One group could stay in a make shift fort and the other could lay siege.  Paintglandes! the catch phrase could be “Hold My Mead.”  ;D

Now that is just a great idea. :)

That looks so satisfying when it hits the shield.  My son got a kick out of it.