Hey Nasse,
Apache is one of the throws that I'm working on now. I'm a huge fan of no wind up casts.
My experience witht he apache style is that it works really well with short sling. If you are comfortable with the length of your current sling Use it the extra couple of cm won't make that much of a diffrence.
I don't have it with me but my first sling measured from the center of my chest to my fingertips when my arm is fully extended. this is the length that I am most comfortable with. I have also used the apache style with my Tibetian yak hair sling which is about half as short as my first sling. I spent more time adjusting to the length than i did with the actual cast. I have a sling that i call "brickbat" beacause I designed it to throw really big rocks with it. It also is the length of my the chest to fingertips. Similar performance to the first one.
My last sling is really bleeping long it measures from my fingertips to my far shoulder. Apache style with this sling is problematic due to it having the tendancy to drag the ground. I have to adjust my casting style with this one and it doesn't make it too comfortable to use with this casting style. Now for the "Belini David" sidearm style it's wicked but it is just too long for the Apache style.
Now I'm still working on my accuracy right now and I definately lean towards, within the range that Mr. Forsyth talks about in his article, a shorter sling with this style is definately the way to go.
Let us know how you are doing as you gain expierence.
Marc Adkins
Jonas.N wrote on Feb 16
th, 2007 at 11:06am:
Hi friends.
I've been using various kinds of slinging techniques, but now I want to learn the apache style throw. That is, the overhand throw without any twirles at all. I've tryed using my favourite sling (leather, about 54 cms loop to pouch), which according the the article is a couple of cms short.
http://www.slinging.org/22.htmlThe thing is that I now want a lighter but slightly longer sling, with a good but small pouch for minimum air resistance. Yet I don't have such good materal available as described in the article, so I'll make my own design. I've been thinking of copying this style pouch:
LoboHunter's design:
The top one of these beautiful slings by Dale:
What do you think, LoboHunter and Dale, about these pouches? I get the feeling that they have a tendency of entangling the stone at reliese. Is it so?
Does anyone have experience of the apache throw? What kind of sling do you use?
Thanks
Jonas