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Jul 30^th, 2016 at 8:46am

i'm planning on transferring my main training place to a football field , so instead of stones i will have to move to tennis balls Sad

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are there any other cheap projectiles i could use? I can't think of any.

tennis balls are too light....

and yes i can fill them with something heavy but i would prefer since i buy them to be ready for use with no further time/money spent on the projectiles.

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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: training balls? Reply #1 - Jul 30^th, 2016 at 9:55am fill the tennis balls with water. Tennis balls a re actually really good weight for slinging. why do you want heavy stuff ?
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Reply #2 - Jul 30^th, 2016 at 3:02pm

Curious Aardvark wrote on Jul 30^th, 2016 at 9:55am:

why do you want heavy stuff ?

well i dont like very heavy stuff, somewhere at 100g-400g is fine
but there are many reasons to like heavier projectiles:
1) The Principle of Overload can be applied
2)more POWER!
3)mechanics and ballistics are closer to what i use for distance throwing (stone) and i like distance throwing even though i suck at it

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vetryan15 Slinging.org Moderator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 1913 Northern Maine Gender:	Re: training balls? Reply #3 - Jul 30^th, 2016 at 5:40pm Try to make rusty balls. Search on this forum. U have to make em. But they are cheap. And don't take very long to make em. $10 investment for supplies and 1 hour of work. Yields a good amount.
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Reply #4 - Jul 30^th, 2016 at 6:29pm

There's these cheap fake baseballs that you can buy at Walmart for like $2, they aren't as heavy as lacrosse balls but their pretty close and they are entirely foam. They would probably still knock somebody out if you hit them, but they wont damage your wall if you decide to go for accuracy like rocks would. Plus their heavy enough to go for some decent range. Hope this helps

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Reply #5 - Jul 31^st, 2016 at 11:10am

If you really want weight but have limited space, (and a football field is limited space for a sling), and just want distance, then make some out of sand filled canvas bags.

Cut some old jeans up and sew them into whatever size pouch you want, fill them with sand and possibly put a streamer or tail on it to limit distance and make it easier to find and have at it.

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johan Funditor Offline no longer active:keep the flame of slinging alive Posts: 531	Re: training balls? Reply #6 - Jul 31^st, 2016 at 3:52pm thanks for the answers. vetryan15 wrote on Jul 30^th, 2016 at 5:40pm: rusty balls. Search on this forum. i cannot find rusty balls with search. do you have a link to the post?
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vetryan15 Slinging.org Moderator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 1913 Northern Maine Gender:	Re: training balls? Reply #7 - Jul 31^st, 2016 at 8:53pm http://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1341784291/3#3 Here is one. Ryan
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Reply #9 - Aug 3^rd, 2016 at 3:24am

thanks again for the info.

i concluded to weighted tennis balls .

so i made :
10x 275g
1x 400g
1x 180g
and left as it is
3x tennis balls

i filled them with sand and lead.
after i gathered the materials took me 2 hours to make 12 balls
10euros for tennis balls
7,2euros for 1,2kg of lead (expensive!)
sand was free
so it is 1,43 euro + 10minutes/ ball
time will show if it was a good choice and construction.

below are some pictures.

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Reply #10 - Aug 3^rd, 2016 at 7:58am

you need to resize your pictures to 800x600.

uploading huge pictures serves no useful purpose.
You've dumped about 14mb on the servers when you only needed around 1mb - probably less if the pictures were a sensible size.

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i like distance throwing even though i suck at it Smiley

Well throwing weights that heavy are probably the issue. For proper distance slinging you need pretty small and light weights

The 225gms is a nice weight to sling - but you're never going to get any huge diatance with it.

Great little picture resizer: http://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?action=downloadfile;file=ImageResizerSetup%2Ez...

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johan Funditor Offline no longer active:keep the flame of slinging alive Posts: 531	Re: training balls? Reply #11 - Aug 3^rd, 2016 at 12:23pm Curious Aardvark wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2016 at 7:58am: you need to resize your pictures to 800x600. uploading huge pictures serves no useful purpose. thanks for the tip . corrected it
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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: training balls? Reply #12 - Aug 3^rd, 2016 at 2:39pm much better
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vetryan15 Slinging.org Moderator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 1913 Northern Maine Gender:	Re: training balls? Reply #13 - Aug 3^rd, 2016 at 4:52pm Now are the lead filled balls, to Capacity? Or do they have wiggle room? If they have space inside.. it would probably give the ball a wobble. And drastically affect the throw. In a few ways Ryan
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johan Funditor Offline no longer active:keep the flame of slinging alive Posts: 531	Re: training balls? Reply #14 - Aug 4^th, 2016 at 3:06am vetryan15 wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2016 at 4:52pm: Now are the lead filled balls, to Capacity? Or do they have wiggle room? 275g balls( red ) have 3 lead weights(33g) and then filled up with sand.I even hit them so sand can settle and i can pack more .
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