Hondero
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Yurek, in the first place congratulations for your 350 meters of range. I never will reach that distance, mainly now with my shoulder injury that forces to me to be prudent. Your record is excellent, and according to my calculations it involve a launching speed of approximately 255 Km/h, which put you between the speed record of tennis and golf. This is quite coherent, because the length of a long sling can be comparable to a golf club. In regard to accuracy, the truth is that there are few trustworthy data, I only know those of the Balearic Federation, which already I mentioned in my messages published by Ben and which are not spectacular. It is evident that the present Balearic slingers are not the mythical ones of the antiquity, although they do not do anything badly. I personally, when I was well trained, could hit regularly (80 %) a man silhouette from the distance of 70 meters. I know by narrations from persons still alive, that the "vaqueros" (cow boys) of my country (Spain) were very skilful hitting from 30 or 40 meters the horn of a bull, so that he returned to the herd or to separate it when he fought with another bull. The Latin clasics tell that between the Greeks, the Achaeans were reputed to be the best slingers, and that were able not only to hit in the head of the enemies but in the part of the head they wanted. I am sure that the precision with the sling does not have almost limit and that is a matter of training and spirit. In fact, many of you will have observed that sometimes you hit very small targets several successives times, with extraordinary precision, which contradicts the statistic laws, and that is only explained by a favorable performance of the inner mechanisms of accuracy, that normally we are not able to put into play.
Jesús
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