The woven sling is one in my series of reconstructed ancient slinging equipment. 99% of my slinging I use a 2 EUR 3 knots PP rope sling. The remaining 1% is testing of my reconstructed equipment.

I would like to see you sling, but I am very sure, that I will not get to Nebraska the next 5 or 10 years. There are also very few slingers in Germany which would be available for meeting. So do we get a life video feed from your world record?

Btw. which sling length do you use? The current records have been with rather long slings AFAIR.

Zwiebeltuete

Did you get information about the record procedures? My impression from the news papers on how to do a record for the Guiness Book of Records is:

• Each try for that book costs money. I think around 500 EUR.
• There are rules on how to conduct the undertaking. Maybe to make it comparable to previous records.

The rules might state that the distance is measured up to ground impact. Just finding the projectile would the not be enough.

Zwiebeltuete

Zw,  I've already applied and am simply awating the yea or nea from Guiness.  The only reason I'd like to make it official is to stoke the home fires here at Slinging.org and as a bit of advertising for my products.


Tint, either way.....I'm going for it.  Rather than seeking to impose on any one here to incur travel expense to verify the new record,  I will most likely have a couple locals and a notary present.


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TS

This summer I tried to sling point first. I managed it once with a irregularly shaped stone. It was a underhand throw with my flax sling (1m length). The stone flew about 130 m. I didn't realise any wobbling. As far as I could see the stone flew point first like a rocket. Using other styles I never reached more than 100 m. So I believe that the technique made the success. But it seems to take much training to gather skill. Until now I didn't repeat this style with satisfiying frequency.

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