Blue Raja wrote on Oct 6
th, 2018 at 7:11pm:
All of the slinging styles, w/ one glaring exception, have names that evoke the history and the culture of slinging: Balearic, Greek, Figure 8, Apache, Byzantine, and Pirouette. Even the dreaded "turkey style" (which sounds like some poorly executed country western line dance as in "hee-haw, now everybody strut...turkey style!" actually, maybe I am on to something here - if my Turkey Style vid goes viral, I will share the profits w/ everyone here) (sorry for the digression!) fits in.
As stated in the Subject line - the glaring exception is of course Helicopter. How is it that we name a slinging style that probably pre-dates written history, after a powered flight machine invented in 1939?
Insofar as we are the preeminent source of sling knowledge, we have the privilege of calling things what we choose. Who will join me in my humble campaign to rename Helicopter?
Is anyone else troubled by this?
Would I do better to devote my time to practice (as my slinging vids demonstrate - I can certainly use more practice!) and not worry about nomenclature?
For those who wish to join me, what are your suggestions for renaming Helicopter into something archaic?
For someone that was around when we came up with those names they were just to help us classify them so when we were talking to each other we were on the same page with each other. I really wouldn’t worry about it. Just keep going out there and to use a term an older member MarmotHunter used “ Give local geology flying lessons !”