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Re: How far can you throw?!
Reply #75 - Dec 24^th, 2009 at 5:19pm

Rockman wrote on Dec 24^th, 2009 at 3:36pm:

I honestly belive that modern slingers have better range than those in biblical times.
It's true that people from the ancient world practced for an absurdly amount of time, that would make them far more accurate.

But for distance? not so sure. I have a hard time accepting than a guy from 2000 years ago, who barely made it to 5 feet in height can throw farther that, say, a 6 foot 6 slavic from today. How could they?

Today we have better alimentation, better medicines and better health overall. I'm sure common illness was a big problem back them, a sick baby or child would mostly die.

Rockman once again makes perfect sense. You only have to look at how records have fallen in both Olympic and professional sports. As we learn more about health and nutrition we've become bigger/stronger/faster. No doubt ancient shepherds, who had little else to do but practice slinging, would be generally more accurate. They would be smaller, weaker, and in poorer health though.

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Re: How far can you throw?!
Reply #77 - Dec 25^th, 2009 at 8:19pm

I don't think you should read too much into sports statistics though. Remember that the eary Olympics were STRICTLY amateur. Such things as systematic training, sports medicine and psychology were unheard of. Even as late as the 1924 Olympics the idea of having a personal coach was looked on unfavourably.

The increase in height of the general population is more a product of improved diet, environment and sanitation that some sort of evolutionary change.

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Re: How far can you throw?!
Reply #78 - Dec 26^th, 2009 at 6:26am

Aussie wrote on Dec 25^th, 2009 at 8:19pm:

I don't think you should read too much into sports statistics though. Remember that the eary Olympics were STRICTLY amateur. Such things as systematic training, sports medicine and psychology were unheard of. Even as late as the 1924 Olympics the idea of having a personal coach was looked on unfavourably.

The modern Olympics are such a hyper-commercialized, corrupt TRAVESTY that I take great pride in scornfully IGNORING them every time they come around.

I'm much more entertained by the far more interesting events in the X-Games, anyway!

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Re: How far can you throw?!
Reply #79 - Dec 26^th, 2009 at 1:49pm

Rat Man wrote on Dec 24^th, 2009 at 5:19pm:

Rockman wrote on Dec 24^th, 2009 at 3:36pm:

I honestly belive that modern slingers have better range than those in biblical times.
It's true that people from the ancient world practced for an absurdly amount of time, that would make them far more accurate.

But for distance? not so sure. I have a hard time accepting than a guy from 2000 years ago, who barely made it to 5 feet in height can throw farther that, say, a 6 foot 6 slavic from today. How could they?

Today we have better alimentation, better medicines and better health overall. I'm sure common illness was a big problem back them, a sick baby or child would mostly die.

Rockman once again makes perfect sense. You only have to look at how records have fallen in both Olympic and professional sports. As we learn more about health and nutrition we've become bigger/stronger/faster. No doubt ancient shepherds, who had little else to do but practice slinging, would be generally more accurate. They would be smaller, weaker, and in poorer health though.

However, technical skill is critical for range. I routinely shoot further (I'm in the 100-150 range mostly, my record is 162 m), and friends of mine who are taller, have longer arms, and are a lot stronger than I am, using longer slings (not proportionally longer), do not match the range, because they don't have the technical skill.

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peacefuljeffrey Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Peace through superior slinging power! Posts: 2700 West Palm Beach Gender:	Re: How far can you throw?! Reply #82 - Dec 28^th, 2009 at 4:22am Who would have thought it? Two hundred yards is out there! Thought I'd passed that mark... (My latest slinging haiku.)
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Re: How far can you throw?!
Reply #83 - Dec 28^th, 2009 at 9:07pm

I'm revising my answer to the poll. i said i could sling to about 200yrd, guessing about where they land on google earth. but reading the other posts, it made me think i should really make an effort to prove that claim. i am a member of a hunt club and we have property that has a high tention power line running tru it, and thats where we have our tower stands that we all draw for to use during the seasone. we have 6 stands that are positioned 200yrd apart along the power line. so i went there and tried to sling chunks of rose quartz from one stand to the other.......well......
not quit 200yrds, more like 140 to 150.......paced out. still a nice distance, but not 200.
maybe with lead i could go further, but i'm not willing to try that cause of the chance of lossing the shot and not wanting to leave lots of lead in the woods.

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