Hi everyone 🙂

I‘m Matthias from Germany (region Eifel) and new to this community.

I had my first time slinging when I was about 14 years old. We made holidays in an Iron Age museum in Denmark and the person from the leatherworkshop in this museum showed me how to make a leather pouch and how to sling. She‘d shown me the under hand swing and with a little practice, I was able to shoot very far distances, but never got pracice in aiming on a specific target.
After a few years I stopped slinging so far.

And now, about 10 years later, a friend of mine came along with building a sling from paracord and I was totally hooked in slinging again!  🥳
I did a little research on YouTube and internet aswell (that’s how I found my way here) and I fell into a rabbit hole 😅

Now I have made a spliced dyneema sling and I started to braid a Balearic inspired sling from linden tree bark.
And I tried out different types of shooting, there are so good tutorials on YouTube! So I get much better results on my shooting in very short time now.
I think there waits a lot more for me 🙂

If you have any questions, please ask!
I will show you some fotos of my slings soon

Kind regards from Germany
Matthias

Welcome!

I'd love to see that balearic from linden bark, be sure to post it when you're done!

Welcome from New Jersey, USA!  I'm looking forward to seeing your slings.

Hello, Mattias! Yes, it was very interesting to see a sling made of linden bark. I also wanted to use this kind of material. So far, I've only made slings from nettles, yucca leaves, and coconut fibers that I found by the sea. I think linden bark should also make a good fiber for weaving.

Willkommen im Forum!

Welcome from Pennsylvania, USA!

Thanks to you all 🙂

When the linden bark sling is done, I will make a post!

Best Regards Matthias

Servus aus Südbayern ;)