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Its a commercial captive release cord sling with a three strap pouch for throwing tennis balls for your dog.

hmm, but does it get over the whole 'slobber laden tennis ball not going anywhere near my pocket' aspect that the plastic thrower does so well ?

I've seen a smiliar thing to this that claims it just attaches to your lead. Was quite expensive so I didn't get one - but looked a lot like this thing.

Well it looks a bit complicated compared to say an ausie pouch and a bit of paracord lol. And how are you supposed to load the ball from the floor when you've got a 90 pound hairy mutt bouncing around trying to steal the ball ?
They just don't think these things through

Nope I'll stick with my flexible plastic ball thrower I think. Total hands and slobber free and picks up the ball quicker than the dog can steal it !

Still got to give the company credit for producing a commercial sling design

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lol fair point
To be honest it does depend on which dog I'm throwing for. If it's just for bilbo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Hu9HaEvgk
Then I'll usually use a sling and aussie pouch.
And sure I could probably train him to be boring and wait for me to pick the ball up - but where's the fun in that

If on the other hand we're looking after one of our friends dogs I'll use the plastic thrower as they bring it back faster and seem to get it a lot wetter.
Plus it has the serious advantage of my never having to touch the ball

But I like the captive pouch design you've used and also the fact that you've come up with a commercial modern design for the sling

Funny video Aardvark,
I understand your situation, people will tell me their dogs just run away with the ball and never bring it back. I’m thinking of doing an article about teaching dogs to play fetch. I’ll let you know if it ever gets up. I’m lucky because my dog loves the fact of chasing the ball, not just the ball itself. I exercise her for around 30-45 minutes a day playing fetch, so you can imagine how slimy the ball gets. One thing that I can’t stop is that after she fetches the ball she loves to stick the slimy ball and her head between my legs.

I can't help but feel that a review of the go-sling by, Oh I don't know, say a moderator of this forum with a big hairy dog that chases tennis balls
Might help sales of the go sling

I'm happy to volunteer

Snarfblat wrote on Apr 13^th, 2009 at 1:50pm:

For one thing it looks like the release cord is directly in line with the release. This in turn may be used to deflect the ammo  somewhat to the side for safety? A captive release cord necessitates a clear opening design such as Jax uses. The go sling patent application may include this optional detail.  

TechStuf aka (Yahweh bless you in Yeshua) is the originator of the “retention loop/hole” many years ago. His descriptions and features of this item have been publicly documented on slinging.org. The creative inputs to this forum are put here in the public domain and any broad commercializing of original creative ideas should be first reviewed by one’s conscience. My approach to this is to give credit to the first public disclosure regardless of any commercial legality.

tom

PLEASE NOTE: I am NOT in here to promote our product. We enjoy slinging with our dog. I’m in here to talk about slinging and what we enjoy doing. Please do not give us a hard time about our new product. Let’s keep it fun in here.

Lots of questions, this is going to be a very tough crowd for me since you guys are obviously professional slingers. First off I would like to thank David, he was the first to post in here about our product and it was picked up by our search engine that took me here.

Curious Aardvark - “I’m happy to volunteer”
As for a moderator to give our product a review, I’ve sent one over to Chris Harrison a couple of weeks ago. He seems to be very busy and I’m not sure if he will do a review on it or not. The slings are all handmade by me and my wife in California and take 35 minutes each to complete and package. So I’m sorry that I can’t give them away so quickly. Hopefully in the near future we will create a large enough inventory and give ALL the moderators one.

Snarfblat - “Go-Sling incorporates a safety feature. I was wondering how this might work, since pinpoint accuracy is something I'm actually trying to accomplish. Do any major chains carry it? ”
Thomas is very close and yes the release cord has a lot to do with it. Overall, the safety feature is a combination of the basket shape, cord stop length, cord attachment locations to the basket, but yes the cord will trap the ball into the basket if you try and throw it horizontally. I’ve heard of people disabling it, but please do not try. It’s only designed to play fetch not to target. We are not yet in major chains pet stores and it’s available in California and Oregon at this moment in the small mom and pop shops, we have learned it’s not that easy to get into massive retailers, hopefully soon. We also do not sell to the public, but you can e-mail us if you like and I’ll hook it up.

Thomas – “My approach to this is to give credit to the first public disclosure regardless of any commercial legality.”
Please don’t think we took or used someone else’s Idea. Our design incorporates two separate mechanisms and the placement locations make it critical. I don’t claim to have invented the idea of a loop/hole or claim to have invented the sling (I’m not that old). This is our unique design and is just one of many individual features that our sling incorporates. So please don’t tell me that you know someone else who has invented a “hands-free ball loading sling to play fetch with a dog so you don’t have to ever touch a slimy ball”, I will be very upset and might cry cause my wife and I would soon be jobless .

Jax – “I wonder how they got the idea”
On our website it tells all about how we got the idea. It all started when I needed a present for my dog’s birthday. My dog is obsessed with playing fetch so I decided to make a sling to throw a ball. From there, every prototype was modified with new features to make it as easy as possible to use. We had a lot of fun developing it and it has turned into our passion.

Hope I answered all the questions. Honestly it feels a little hostile in here; I really hope it doesn’t keep up. We are just trying to spread the fun that we are having, just like this great website. Being an entrepreneur starting out in this tough economy is hard enough already.

THANKS EVERYONE!

I would like to buy one.