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I'm in Mallorca!
Feb 26th, 2015 at 6:09pm
 

If you want to follow the action, I will be posting photos to Facebook as I go along. I am David Colter, it won't take you long to work out which one!
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Reply #1 - Feb 26th, 2015 at 6:17pm
 
Bravo !
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Reply #2 - Feb 26th, 2015 at 8:57pm
 
Lucky dog. Enjoy  Smiley hopefully you can some good videos of it? *crosses fingers*
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Reply #3 - Feb 27th, 2015 at 12:32pm
 
Sweet. I'll FB request you.
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Reply #4 - Feb 27th, 2015 at 1:09pm
 
Cool.  Amazingly enough I was able to find you and the pictures on Facebook.  It`s not that I use that a lot.
And by the way;  Good luck Smiley
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Reply #5 - Feb 28th, 2015 at 3:34pm
 
Way cool.  I'm loving the pictures.
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Reply #6 - Feb 28th, 2015 at 3:43pm
 
Has the competition started? If so who is winning?
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Reply #7 - Mar 1st, 2015 at 6:05am
 
After looking at the pictures I really wish I was there...
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Reply #8 - Mar 1st, 2015 at 2:53pm
 
It looks pretty good. Looking forward to results.
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Reply #9 - Mar 1st, 2015 at 4:57pm
 
Good luck!
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Reply #10 - Mar 2nd, 2015 at 4:33pm
 
I'm curious to know if the Balearic rules about slinging style were enforced on the international visitors. Anyway, Morningstar's reports seems pretty fun.
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Reply #11 - Mar 3rd, 2015 at 2:47am
 
I used figure-8 so did C_A and Christian from  Austria. It has been agreed with the Federacion that for international competitions any style can be used as long as it is safe and reasonably powerful.  Women, children and seniors often use a simple underarm lob and that's okay, but anyone competing seriously is expected to sling seriously.
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Reply #12 - Mar 3rd, 2015 at 2:53am
 
Represent!

Cool

We expect gold medals.
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My daughters can figure-8...
 
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Reply #13 - Mar 3rd, 2015 at 5:49am
 
well I'm currently in palma airport, david's probably in madrid. Poor sod had to leave the hotel in the early hours, I booked  a more civilised flight.

Great things will be going on in the slinging world in the next couple of years Of which more when I'm back in blighty.

Absolutely incredible time - can't thank pep and the balearic federation enough for their hospitality and organisation.
You yanks need to get off your arses and get out here in 2017.

That's right you have 2 years advance notice !

Same time end feb beginning of march in 2017 will be the next international in mallorca.
There's a chance we might manage a couple more elsewhere. again more later.

As far as the rules go. basically they just ignore them. plenty serious slingers using underhand techniques. these rules will probably change in the future.

Competing in a competiton is seriously different than practice. I practice david wouldn't have hit the side of a barn if he'd been standing inside it.
On the day - second competition. A bullseye and two board. Second only to silvio - jaegoor, who scored 7.
I hit 2, in practice 5 out of seven. But once the crowd arrives and there's people behind you cheering and groaning it's a whole different ball game.
A lot of locals blanked entirely, so even with 2 points I was a fair way from bottom.

In the first competition. I got 1 point jaegoor got 2, david none but tomas/teg and hubert/uwe were just amazing.
It went down to a shoot off.
first was with 3 stones both hit a board and a bullseye.
Then sudden death with 1 stone each.
Both hit the diana.
Second sudden death round, tomas missed and hubert hit another diana to take the big shiny trophy. Seriously amazing slinging.

It's fair to say we didn't disgrace ourselves Smiley
(although I did forget how to count to 5 - as you will see lol)
Lots of videos, pictures, reports etc to come.

This is curious aardvark honorary member of the foners de fillanitx (pronounced fe-la-niche)   
Signing off from mallorca.
might post from cologne if they have free wifi.
Adios hombres  Smiley
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Do All things with Honour and Generosity: Regret Nothing, Envy None, Apologise Seldom and Bow your head to No One  - works for me Smiley
 
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Reply #14 - Mar 3rd, 2015 at 10:03am
 
in koln having a bratwurst and a coffee.
got a few hours to kill.

so a bit more on how the competitions work in the real world.

the balearic rules state you must make 2 overhead rotations.

in reality most actually a sidearm style  and never make any overhead rotations. including luis.
so do you tell your best slingers they're disqualified (as we might in england). nah you just get on with.

Nobody seems to know where the rule came from, but it's probably going to be dropped.

For any international competitions, it's already gone.
Nobody was concerned about my sling construction either. It being the only one at both competitions that was not woven or braided. But paracord, leather and rivets.

These guys are very easy going, they'd rather drink and laugh than worry over much about rules.

It's weird I'm back in germany - which was my childhood home, not that far from koln either, but I feel more at home in mallorca (just in the winter lol)
Just a great bunch of people.
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