Seeing Luis on TV is one of the reasons I became interested in slinging! I didn't know Balearic slingers were still around until then.
Thearos wrote on Jan 21
st, 2018 at 9:10pm:
The figures on Trajan's Column have been identified by some as Baleares, but others think they're more likely to be "numeri", i.e. local auxiliaries.
Yeah, that's what I thought at first, but couldn't find any evidence for it
Curious Aardvark wrote on Jan 21
st, 2018 at 10:52am:
The slings are most likely not different - but historically they carried slings of different lengths.
I think Livy or Polybius gives scant descriptions of "single strap" slings the Balearics used, and in another post, Hondero mentioned something about the Balearic sling we know today as something brought over from Spain by basket weavers... but who knows.
I read a post by Luis a long time ago about 2 lengths of sling they still use today. Got to do more digging!