I think they were guests of a member of the club I work in.  That was the only time I met them.  The guy did mention that he have heard about the sling but have never seen one in action.

I have, to a few.  i don't think they kept doing it though.
 
Most of them just like watching me do it and ask questions.  when I ask them to try they usually refuse or they throw just a few shots.

Tint, You must have been smiling like a maniac when you walked away from the couple. You must have felt on top of the world. Wow!

Hi, Willeke.
 
Ok.  I'll give 'er a shot.

Quote from riverwindflutes on Feb 24^th, 2007, 9:30pm:

                                                                                                                              Try starting from the inside.

Simply Amazing.  

Just found this website today, way cool.  Hate to admit just how long I've been sending rocks over long distances, but let's just say quite a while.  My Dad used to have a slingshot, which was my primitive weapon of choice as a small boy, until he showed me what a "sling" was.  We have always used old boot leather (the tongue worked best) for the pouch, and good old parachute cord (550 they call it) for the lines.  I see by most of the slings on this site that ours are quite different on the way we hold/throw them.  I have a large loop for the fixed end, around my entire hand then the line back from the palm between the ring and middle finger.  As hard as I have thrown, I tend to think I would injure just a single finger for the anchor.  Anyway, back in the early 60's, there weren't a lot of sling throwers around where I grew up (two, counting me).  We spent a lot of times fishing the lakes of the Eastern Sierra Nevada, and armed with the billions of nice round rocks along their shores, I would spend hours flinging rocks as far out in the lake as I could.  With a smooth egg-shaped rock about half the size of a large marble (we called those "boulders"), I could routinely chuck rocks about 250 yards.  Not really accurately, just whip 'em out in the water for distance.  One dusky night, some fishermen kept seeing these splashes far out in the lake, and not seeing anyone near, started their motor and headed over after proclaiming about all the "fish" jumping over there.  My Dad was watching the whole thing, and we both got a great laugh.  I chucked a few more about 50 yards in front of them to keep them coming, then quit.  They never had a clue anyone could throw a rock that far.

Quote from Dale on Mar 8^th, 2007, 3:15pm:

I interpreted it as that other people (like the fishers) are uninformed about the sling because so few people do it. But maybe I was wrong there.