Thanks I'll check it out!

I'd recommand King David.  It is what got me started in slinging!  The slingers in it used mostly underhand, a couple of them were kneeling in battle and were using the helicopter style.  They looked like they know what they were doing and the speed of their rocks seemed fast enough to be deadly.  But then most of us on this forum could probably throw just as good if not better.

there is a seen   In Crocodile Dundee  where  he  puts some kinda  mixture on the  bad guys?  and  uses a bull roarer  to call in bats   how did he get the mixture on them ??

Hi all,

I like clan of the cave bear too...   it was the reason I got interested in slings. I've also read the second book, well almost, I stopped at 3/4 or so because I was getting anoyed by some unrealistic seeming things. Ayla seems to be "inventing" a lot of stuff in a very short time...  fire making with pyrite and flint, horseriding, transporting things with her horse by dragging two poles along, atlatl....     she even lives with a cave lion....      And second...   Jondolar is described like ...   a perfect man???  he's tall, handsome, sensible, intelligent, brave...    brad pitt of the stone age...     It's more like a women's romance novel or so....
These remarks aside...  I quite like the books, mainly because of the description of primitive techniques.

btw.  If I remember correctly, in Crocodile dundee...  he uses a bullroarer to call his aboriginal buddies   and he atracts the bats' attention to the stinky mixture(which he threw to the bad guys after having sneaked up to them in the night) by making some kind of 'bat-call'.

Bye,

Burro.

I tried to read Clan of the Cave Bear once, but I only got through a few chapters.  I didn't really like it.  I found it was neither realistic enough to be life-like, nor whimsical enough to be fantasy.

As far as movies with slinging, if I remember correctly The Power of One had a scene in which someone attempts to kill the protagonist with a sling.  The only unrealistic thing about it was that his wind up lasted way too long.  Maybe that's why he failed, I don't remember.

I would like to taste mammoth and wear its wool on my boots.

Well.....um.....

My technique isn't exactly like Ayla's.  She catches the stones in mid-air and can make them hit the same spot everytime.  I am light years behind that!

anyway, here is the link:

http://www.slinging.org/forum2/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=1;action=display;num=11158751...

Welcome to the forum!

Apparently she dies in the last book at the age of 42 or something. Or so thats the idea.
The only thing I disliked was Ayla's and Jondalar's supposed perfections when their flaws are perfectly fine. And I did not enjoy the books as much without Creb.