I want make one with a good crack but i don't know how... i know that the extreme of sling is very important ( the fine fibers end) but i think that the body also it. I think that the crack made me feel the best, more powerfull, i feel how one european girl with one 4x4 and i want more crack in some of my slings.

I would help me with a photos of your best cracking sling... i seeing the materials, how made it...

Thank you for help me to learn and sorry for my sad knowlege of english, if some phrases are wrong or aren't understanding, please, tell me without scary.

I've been experimenting with cracking slings and I've come to a conclusion:

If you taper without the tassle, the sling will be easier to crack and the crack will be more sharp. I
f you add the tassle, the fibers will slow down the release cord so it'll be harder to crack them but if you do, it'll sound more like a "boom" rather than a "crack".

xxkid123 wrote on Jan 20^th, 2013 at 5:36pm:


Not is tacky for me, it's a beautiful sling!, maybe i would change other colors and i think that, the knot can remove dynamic of movement, maybe be better with sewing or knot with a fine thread but is a very good idea combine different materials and if is effective in the crack, much better.

I make a sling that I call the Sicktor. I came up with this design in trying to get a friend of mine, nicknamed Sicktor, into slinging. He's a mason and handyman, so when I made a sling with his spirit in mind, I came up with a simple design of braided mason's line with a button-hole style split pouch (basically a Rockman) made of 4-layer gorilla tape. The Sicktor is a funny case for me, because I did not manage to get my friend, the namesake of the design, into slinging. I gave him my first proto, and he gave it to his 11-year old son. Hopefully the boy stayed out of trouble. But the Sicktor instantly became one of my favorite designs.
When I make a Sicktor I generally tie the release knot then I tie another knot an inch or 1 1/2" away from that, then I trim. I find if, when I trim, I leave an inch or more to turn to fluff this design has the loudest, most menacing release crack of any sling I've ever made. It just sounds flat-out diabolical. I ought to do a tutorial on this sling because, though it is very simple to make, I could flesh out the details, and anyone who made one of these Sicktors up would find that they had made not only one of the best throwing slings ever, but also one of the best "workhorse" slings. The combination of gorilla tape pouch and mason's line as the fiber makes for a sling that just will not wear out. I have even started finishing my jute slings with a mason's line tail (as in just the final 8-12" of the release end) to extend the life of the sling. But mason's line all the way is a wonderful sling.
I will often make a Sicktor and enjoy its loud badassery for a while, but then soon trim the fluff because the sound will become obnoxious to me.
So, all notes of the Sicktor design aside, generally a sling will be louder if there is a big fluffy tail of arguably any material. The loudness comes from the tail breaking the sound barrier upon release. So the bigger that tail, the louder the crack.

Now just the slings. Long live Sicktor!

My best cracking sling is one I made like a nylon snake whip. There are some photos of it here:

http://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1271277973/0

-Timothy Potter

Caldou wrote on Jan 21^st, 2013 at 4:16pm:


Mother of god... 

is impressive

This concept is exciting to me, if only because it is an aspect of slinging that could draw people in.

I browsed a few threads on this this morning and spent less than an hour whipping one up that I thought might crack okay.
This is not one that makes the "best cracks", but it's pretty solid and the cracks are sharp. It also functions really well as a whip.
Side note: I have been playing with a pouch design that I have not seen anywhere else yet. In my very limited testing, it works incredibly well and I think it may hold up better than my butterfly styled pouches... and I just haven't found the appeal of the split pouch yet. I'll keep trying though.

Edit: I'm also going to see if I can figure out how to embed images properly. This giant, sideways picture thing is terrible.