Are you insinuating that CA's reply didn't thoroughly answer my questions and entertain me?
Totally open to anyone and everyone. Give us a SITH story if you got one!
I'll go first. This is about my first SITH. I need to jump back in time a ways. My first interest in slinging and my joining of this forum are separated by 10 years or so. If we go back to 2008ish, I was aware of what a sling was, but my interest started after reading The Clan of the Cave Bear. Like the book or hate it, it made me think slinging was cool and I wanted to try it. So I started making slings. I started getting pretty good with simple braids, but unfortunately I also got out to try slinging a few times. I was absolutely terrible. It was frustrating to the point that I pretty much dumped the whole idea. Something to keep in mind is that I was aware of this forum at that time. I think my extremely poor performance when trying to sling is what kept me from joining way back then. Once I dropped the idea of trying to sling anymore, I also stopped making them, and a particular sling was left only halfway done for a long time.
Jump to 2018. I had been in my new house for a handful of years. For some reason that particular year I saw some apples in the yard that had fallen from the trees and thought, 'I should dig out one of the old slings and try throwing an apple'. I'm pretty sure I was using a completely different style than my previous attempts (without even thinking about it), but it worked! Slinging apples out of the yard became a favorite pastime real quick. That's also when I finally joined the forum, and then the SITH of 2018 came around. I had started slinging, but I wasn't making them again yet. I wanted to join the SITH but had concerns about it taking too long to make a sling since I was out of practice. One night when I was looking through my old slings (and cordage, etc.), I found a sling that was already halfway done! I finished that sling, and it was later sent to walter.