Here is a video of my slinging style. I think it may be the same as Gunsonwheels but verbal descriptions are always hard to follow.

http://www.slinging.org/movies/siedlecki/MVI_0441.MOV.

(Thanks to my daughter Tasha for the filming and to Chris Harrison for uploading the file. I finally understand how the system works now.)


PS Another view fom the LHS

http://www.slinging.org/movies/siedlecki/MVI_0446.MOV

Thanks for your appraisal, Dale. I was a bit hazy on how to post videos before but have another now which shows a rear view. To me this style is just so simple and natural. I feel that artificially modifying styles just to meet someone else's idea of what is correct is highly counterproductive. We should judge only results, ie. can you hit the target with sufficient force to effect a "kill"?

Hey!!!! I used a similar style before!

I get a white page, no player starts at all.
My windows media player works as does my real player.

Willeke

PS, both are the newest version I could get for free, both improved last week.

Sorry my friends, I am really disappointed that you cannot see the video. 

Dale, is there someway to change the format to make it work for everyone? 

Identical to mine except I put in another single full rotation... but after seeing the video I am wondering why...???

A great video and a wonderful addition to the DVD... 

I guess I have never understood the "figure eight"... after looking at the various GIF's and video clips I thought it began with dropping the patch in front of your body and waiting for gravity... and waiting... and waiting... to me it seems like it takes forever.  Aussie's patch/pouch is immediately accelerated by the cord tension and wrist/arm motion.  Based on what Dale says I guess mine too is figure 8.  I hope the DVD will eventually have all the several variants of that bad boy.  It would be great to see the different ways of getting to...  the fundamental aspect of getting the pouch/stone into a position where a normal throwing motion can work with the arm extension of the sling to exploit the full potential  of the extended thrower's "arm".

Again... great video...  My personal thanks to you and the several contributors

Thank you for your kind comments, Gunsonwheels.

The video was taken at "casual throwing speed", so that viewers can catch the action. When I'm really trying to "murder it" the speed is somewhat faster. I very much hope that someone finds something they can use in it to further their own slinging.

Frankly I was surprised when Dale suggested the style qualifies as Fig. 8. To me it seems to be missing the essential Fig. 8 element of the initial rotation on the RHS and the crossover to the LHS  from which (I assume) the style gets its name. My style drops the pouch immediately into the behind the back position. It's really just Dave Taylor's Greek style with the plane of rotation of the pouch brought around to as close to vertical as possible. I find this reduces the side to side error and allows me to better use my stomach muscles for the final acceleration phase, whipping my arm forward and down.

I have been working on a full Fig. 8 and can get the pouch to travel in the desired path without wacking myself in the process but as yet the release velocity is no better than my normal style and accuracy is chancy


Many thanks to Dave Taylor,  Mark Weaver and Tint whose videos I have watched countless times to get the finer points of how it's done. I don't want to ignore the work of Nwmanitou, whose video I only just discovered, and others who have posted equally instructive material it's just that it's harder to find not being in article form. We need to get these hidden treasures out from the dross of dated posts and out where they can be seen.

That's why I think Curious Aardvark's DVD compilation of videos of slinging styles is such a fantastic project. It will distill into one definitive "volume" all this wonderful material that comes across in dribs and drabs. And not only described verbally, but we will be able to see it!!!!

That Greek starting stance is very flexible.  You can toss the pouch up, for a quick underhand cast; you can drop it in front of you or behind your back for overhand casts; you can toss it to the left (if you are right-handed) for a helicopter or Ralph Craig style throw.  It is no wonder that David Taylor likes it.  So does Hondero: