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Mersa Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Druid Posts: 2599 Australia Gender:	Re: My First Post Reply #30 - Jul 1^st, 2020 at 8:46am Really!! Morphy invented the turkey?? I’m even more excited about his calendar entry now!!
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Reply #31 - Jul 3^rd, 2020 at 7:38am

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gain though this works better if you don’t use your other hand to hold the pouch behind your back.

so an apache throw

Also starting a throw with the sling held behind your back is an ancient tibetan technique for using their long slings.

It's how puchi - who grew up herding yaks with her sling, on the family farm in tibet - starts her throws.

Not sure where the yak was hiding that makes the noise at the end of that video clip. We were actually slinging at a makeshift target on a coastal gun turret, at the military museum/fort in palma.

The guy in the t-shirt in the background is Uwe (the naked german himself

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Reply #32 - Jul 3^rd, 2020 at 8:26am

Apache throw uses a straight arm trebuchet movement while the Overshoulder has your throwing hand up near your shoulder while the sling hangs back over the shoulder against your back.

It’s a bit different than the Tibetan throw as well since ideally you don’t hold the sling and it’s an overhand motion instead of a side arm.

There’s only so many ways to twirl a piece of string so I really doubt I invented anything but if nothing else I started a thread on it. There’s my very minor claim to fame lol.

That’s a really interesting throw. I wonder if that’s more of a personal thing or that’s how they all use such long slings?

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Kick past-moderator Offline Posts: 4451 Finland	Re: My First Post Reply #33 - Jul 4^th, 2020 at 10:55am I've talked about it before, but that video was a revelation. It makes using long slings a piece of cake. I've hurt my shoulder trying to get some momentum into a long sling before, but starting it across the shoulders works like a charm.
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Reply #34 - Jul 4^th, 2020 at 2:35pm

Kick wrote on Jul 4^th, 2020 at 10:55am:

I've talked about it before, but that video was a revelation. It makes using long slings a piece of cake. I've hurt my shoulder trying to get some momentum into a long sling before, but starting it across the shoulders works like a charm.

So is this Tibets answer to the Greek throw? Really seems like it. Although I must say their representatives are easier on the eyes than any of the other throwers I’ve seen.

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Reply #35 - Jul 5^th, 2020 at 12:40pm

Morphy wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2020 at 8:26am:

There’s only so many ways to twirl a piece of string so I really doubt I invented anything but if nothing else I started a thread on it. There’s my very minor claim to fame lol.

People have been slinging since there were people. Up until very recently in human history the sling was a very important weapon/tool. Everybody used one. We are talking countless millions if not billions of slingers over tens or maybe hundreds of thousands of years.
In light of all that, a while back after much discussion we decided that we were inventing nothing here. It was a agreed that we were rediscovering these techniques and sling designs.

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Reply #36 - Jul 6^th, 2020 at 7:16am

Rat Man wrote on Jul 5^th, 2020 at 12:40pm:

Morphy wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2020 at 8:26am:

There’s only so many ways to twirl a piece of string so I really doubt I invented anything but if nothing else I started a thread on it. There’s my very minor claim to fame lol.

People have been slinging since there were people. Up until very recently in human history the sling was a very important weapon/tool. Everybody used one. We are talking countless millions if not billions of slingers over tens or maybe hundreds of thousands of years.
In light of all that, a while back after much discussion we decided that we were inventing nothing here. It was a agreed that we were rediscovering these techniques and sling designs.

I agree and probably the same is true for primitive bow making even though in some ways it has more variables. That being said, there is one way we as a group can do something in slinging that has never been done. And that is to research it and through scientific testing unravel what makes a good sling, ammo and throwing style. Not opinions but facts. And that is the most exciting part to me since it will rapidly help increase the general skill level of slingers across the world.

Can’t wait to see what people are capable of 50 years from now with heavy competition and a very good general understanding of what works best. Assuming society is still here lol.

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Reply #38 - Jul 7^th, 2020 at 9:18am

AncientCraftwork wrote on Jul 7^th, 2020 at 1:58am:

Right now so many sling designs, is so chaotic.

So would the 'Pictures of Slings' thread be better if we all posted pictures of the exact same sling? The variety is one of the things I find extremely appealing.

AncientCraftwork wrote on Jul 7^th, 2020 at 1:58am:

Saying a piece of leather with some paracord tied to it is a sling is like saying a twig with some string is a bow.

I think this is a pretty dismissive comment. I think a piece of leather and paracord makes a very quick and effective sling. Will it have a release as clean as some other slings? Perhaps not. But that's not to say that it doesn't work well.

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Kick past-moderator Offline Posts: 4451 Finland	Re: My First Post Reply #39 - Jul 7^th, 2020 at 3:55pm If it sends a rock in vaguely the right direction it gets a pass from me. I like the acronym KISS; Keep It Simple Stupid One the slings I have the most fun throwing is the super long, one-piece knotted paracord sling. I made it in about 5 minutes and it can send a tennis ball reliably downrange for the dogs to chase.
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Morphy Slinging.org Moderator Offline Checkmate Posts: 8102	Re: My First Post Reply #42 - Jul 7^th, 2020 at 8:28pm AncientCraftwork wrote on Jul 7^th, 2020 at 4:04pm: . Knots between pouch and release cords, folded leather, cupped pouches, do not make good slings, I am now confident in stating this. ) What do you mean by folded leather?
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Reply #44 - Jul 8^th, 2020 at 7:27am

A perfect bow will not shoot crap arrows as well as a “not so perfect bow” shoots perfect arrows, I think the same is true for a sling. You can overcome sling flaws if the ammo is really good/consistent. Not that I find any of my slings all that bad.

My personal sling is a “imperfect” design by your standards but I find it the most accurate and efficient sling I’ve ever used.
It might be that you are trying to fix a problem others don’t have?

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