Vincente posted a great link to the FTBF web pages, where you can look at past results and records. Make sure to choose the Catalan (red and yellow striped field flag) pages rather than Engilish as the english pages are still incomplete.

http://www.tirdefona.com

Some pages with scores are under "resultats-classificacions" Looking at the men's (homes) results for CAMPIONAT DE MALLORCA 2003, we see that the average looks like about 5 points on ten throws (5 from each distance) taking into account that many of the slingers may not have competed in every event. I imagine that his means ~3-4 hits. The best scorer averaged more than 11 points, and the best individual score was 18 points.

The total available points are 30 (for men) hitting all iron, and 15 scoring only board hits. Scoring 18 is pretty impressive, and hitting 4 of 10 is no mean feat either!

I'd personally like to see more throws. 10 is ok when spread over 15 meets, but wouldn't be enough for a national championship or the olympics. Maybe Vincente can fill in the pieces here?

As for the archery check this page:

http://archeryweb.com/archery/olympics.htm

On thier way to a gold medal, and archer will shoot 168 arrows over 7 rounds. After a ranking round where each person takes 72 shots, competetion is single elimination head to head matches based on your rank out of the first round (which is thus pretty important). The rings are scored simple 1 to 10 - archery having the advantage that the projectiles "stick" to the target... (I know, I know... lead sticks nicely to concrete walls when slung at high speeds )

How did I do Vincente? Close?

Matthias

Thanks in advance for some pictures of your competitions Vicente! 

Where do they all get the stones that are used? Are they all different sizes? Do they each go to a big pile of stones and pick/ choose the ones they want to sling?

Pictures of the stones would be very nice. Do you have restrictions on the weight of the stones or rules of how small or large they must be?

Also Vicente, what is the "5 cm" mark on the bottom of the target drawing?

wow maybe I should have posted my olympic comments here instead.  As I sit here thinking on it where do the fans stand? I mean with Archery and rifle if you stand behind the shooter your chances of getting hit approach 0.  But with a sling the point of release is anywhere within a circle around the slinger.  Seems like you'd need some sort of netting or something to catch stray stones.  Maybe like what they use at golf courses only more robust.

I think that if the sling was in the Olympics, then Spain, the USA, Poland (because of Yurek, naturally), Peru, Ecuador and other would win consistently.  I think also that the sling could have a net like that for the hammerthrow, as with that, the point of release is virtually anywhere in 360 degrees.  The net would of course have to be finer.  Slingstone size would naturally regulate the size of the net loops.

thanks willike.  very interesting stuff there, perhaps even more so because of talk of the ISF in the other area.

Vicente,

you wrote that the FBTF is looking for somebody to translate into English. Unfortunately that's not what I'm best at. But I translated the FBTF rules into German several months ago. If that is of interest for you I would be glad to send it to you.

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