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Painful effects of slinging
May 21^st, 2007 at 10:58pm

Has anyone ever hit themselves with their own sling/projectile? I remember a while ago when I was beginning to sling, and I was on a railroad track slinging bits of rock. I really whirled one of them and was about to send it to the heavens when I cracked myself in the skull. I was on the ground and bled slightly, and had a huge lump for over a week.
Has anyone else injured themselves with their own sling? How about hitting yourself with the projectile, accidentally hurled vertically?
Or am I the only one with such poor luck and beginner skills?

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Gunsonwheels Senior Member Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 375 Wyoming Shoshone River Valley Gender:	Re: Painful effects of slinging Reply #1 - May 21^st, 2007 at 11:15pm In the mid eighties when I was trying to learn the figure eight I whacked myself quite a few times. I think that was why I like my side arm variant better... less painful Considering I started throwing in the fifties... ah... gee... who can remember...???
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Dale Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Posts: 1581 California, USA Gender:	Re: Painful effects of slinging Reply #2 - May 22^nd, 2007 at 12:48am Not too long after I joined this forum, figuring out the figure-8 became all the rage here. Not a few of us whacked ourselves. It was a running not-quite-joke that the figure-8 style was not compatible with children. Especially if said children were not yet conceived.
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Gunsonwheels Senior Member Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 375 Wyoming Shoshone River Valley Gender:	Re: Painful effects of slinging Reply #3 - May 22^nd, 2007 at 12:52am After a recent head bashing at a slinging class (from an inexperienced helicopter) I came to the conclusion the helicopter is well suited to killing others (i.e. "friendly fire") and the figure eight is well suited for killing yourself...
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Tint Interfector Viris Spurii Past Moderator Offline Posts: 2323 Hong Kong Gender:	Re: Painful effects of slinging Reply #4 - May 22^nd, 2007 at 2:30am I have hit myself on the left ankle/shin a few times with the fig 8 when the cords got tangled and the rock stayed in the pocket. Luckily, they were not full power shots and I did n't hurt myself that badly. I could easily have broken bones otherwise.
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Re: Painful effects of slinging
Reply #5 - May 22^nd, 2007 at 3:42am

Ethan wrote on May 21^st, 2007 at 10:58pm:

Has anyone ever hit themselves with their own sling/projectile? I remember a while ago when I was beginning to sling, and I was on a railroad track slinging bits of rock. I really whirled one of them and was about to send it to the heavens when I cracked myself in the skull. I was on the ground and bled slightly, and had a huge lump for over a week.
Has anyone else injured themselves with their own sling? How about hitting yourself with the projectile, accidentally hurled vertically?
Or am I the only one with such poor luck and beginner skills?

You are definitely NOT the only one to have hurt himself with his own sling! Sending rocks skyward happens to everyone at some time or other, especially if using underarm styles. Railroad ballast stones are just about the worst you can get too. They are usually crushed rock, all sharp irregular angles, which tends to hang up in the pouch giving a very uncertain release.

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Dravonk Funditor Offline Posts: 773 Aachen, Germany Gender:	Re: Painful effects of slinging Reply #6 - May 22^nd, 2007 at 5:49am Fig-8 with a sharp stone to the forehead. Just bled a bit. The first thing I did after it happened was throwing some more fig-8s.
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sv Funditor Offline Posts: 764 ireland	Re: Painful effects of slinging Reply #7 - May 22^nd, 2007 at 6:18am i hit myself on the head with an empty pouch when practising the fig 8 moves - damage was restricted to spectacles the fig 8 sequence is maybe too complex to master safely, unless using soft ammo. it's the common theme for self-inflicted injury so far SV
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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: Painful effects of slinging Reply #8 - May 22^nd, 2007 at 6:29am when I first started I managed to bounce stones of my right leg a few times. And these days I can occasionally hit my slinging hand with the sling, just have to remember to keep the fingers close together :-)
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Re: Painful effects of slinging
Reply #9 - May 22^nd, 2007 at 9:39am

It happenend a few times to me, that I was hit by shatters of the stones. I sling on quite stony ground and if I shoot to early with an underarm style, the rock hits the ground right before me. No serious injuries, but it hurts. Once I nearly dislocated my arm because a stone didn't go out of the pocket. Got a nice sore arm.

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Æthelbera Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Resident Cavegirl Posts: 1135 grieving- august 13th/09 :( Gender:	Re: Painful effects of slinging Reply #10 - May 22^nd, 2007 at 11:43am Anything "painful" is just a learning experience.
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Lathron Ex Member	Re: Painful effects of slinging Reply #11 - May 22^nd, 2007 at 2:07pm i never hit myself, but when I give it to my friends to try it, actually they usually do. hit themselves, not me
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lobohunter Interfector Viris Spurii Offline where be a rock and a string there be a sling Posts: 1945 Cottage Grove or Gender:	Re: Painful effects of slinging Reply #12 - May 24^th, 2007 at 6:07pm Quote: Anything "painful" is just a learning experience. every body remember that next group outing Bjärn come to lol
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bigkahuna past-moderator Offline Posts: 3894 Delaware, USA Gender:	Re: Painful effects of slinging Reply #13 - May 25^th, 2007 at 12:25am Wear armor!!!!!!!!!
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wannabeslinger Ex Member	Re: Painful effects of slinging Reply #14 - May 25^th, 2007 at 3:06pm i had a stone slip out of the pouch and i covered my head just in time, so it hit me on the forearm lol ive been trying to get speed with the figure 8 but seems stupid to have something slinging two inches from your face lol
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