Sad to say a man I met. He was charming and whity and without knowing it I became totally besotted with him. Well to cut a long story short, I foolishly accused him of something he hadn't done and I lost his friendship. No second chances with him. My fault for not trusting him. My weakness.

I still think about him. Still miss his emails and funny messages. He was someone special to me at a special time in my life, and I always smile remembering the pride and excitement he had teaching me all about slinging. A great guy.

I don't exactly know 
Of colurse I knew of David & Goliath and had read all Ayla books, but I wansn't really hooked.
I remember having read on Wikipedia and visited the German website fundamittere, where I found some interesting braided and woven slings. Had some old sisal cord left and tried myself.
Looks like I have a good hand for crafting slings, just need some more practise to shoot with them.
Er, some more years. A decade or so. Like that 

   I find myself drawn to the time when we were hunter/gatherers, not as a survivalist type thing;  more like getting back to our roots.  There was a time when we gathered all of our food, medicine, clothing, etc.. from nature.  I'm not claiming that as an old 21st century man I'd be fit to survive in such a time but still that era of human development intrigues me.  Of course the sling was a very important weapon/tool to early man and remained so until the 15th Century.

I just sold a sling to a 50 year old lady who told me that same thing Lummox

I shared this story in my intro post, but I found a post by CanDo on another forum while trying to research slingshots. I think it said something like "forget slingshots, try slinging!"  I was intrigued and whipped up a sling the same day from a guide I found here on slinging.org. 

The late Peter Capstick wrote several books on big game hunting.  At least once, he mentions his trackers slinging stones into the brush to flush or locate an animal.

At the time, I was bemoaning a rotator cuff injury that reduced my once-prolific throwing arm.  I started underhand to protect the rotator cuff, but practice and slinging.org quickly convinced me that proper technique was plenty fast and usually more accurate than any application of power.  So, I tried helicopter and couldn't time the release. Figure 8 wraps my arm too high on my shoulder for comfort (mine, not yours).  I probably throw the farthest with a hard Baleric, only about 130 meters with a basalt stone the size of a small egg.

I think I sling semi-sidearm Greek?  It's the closest style to a baseball pitcher I can think of.  After all, they are some of the fastest and most accurate hurlers in the world--why not make use of similar (and highly analyzed) mechanics?  Plus, sidearm is easier on my shoulder over time.

Alas, I digress. 

Hello! Im new here. I sling approx 1 month and it is great fun... i think im addicted on it. What got me to the slinging ? Im traditional archer for a long time. But nowdays i cant shoot in free time cuz with my bow it is very dangerous to shoot on the garden, so i use to shoot on field but the fields are now full of corn so im out of archery. So i though like hmm, I cant shoot there cuz I will lost arrow... soooo why not sling rocks ? there is more rocks then corns on those fields. I mean nice oval rocks. So i tried sling. and I was surprised by its power. after one week I was very happy that i hit the football goal on 60m! Now Im here and looking on your post and learning this art of slinging rocks. : ) and sorry if Im not very good with English