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Title: SCENES OF THE BATTLE OF "CHIARAJJE"
Post by zeluiz on Jul 29^th, 2004 at 6:51am

Cusco: this year They had more than 50 wounded ones.

Warak'as = sling (they chief weapon)

http://www.elcomerciocusco.com/06_ciencia.htm

translation

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I would like to know what is they range and precision. in the photo it seems that they are throwing from a great distance mountain arrives.

Title: Re: SCENES OF THE BATTLE OF "CHIARAJJE"
Post by zeluiz on Jul 29^th, 2004 at 7:41am

more links

http://www.rumbosdelperu.com/englishver/ed_ant/edit37/commun.htm

Title: Re: SCENES OF THE BATTLE OF "CHIARAJJE"
Post by Zorrro on Jul 29^th, 2004 at 8:21am

interesting... zeluiz
anyway i would'nt risk a "zurriagazo" (zurriago's strike) or being hit with a stone, just cool watching this pics from a secure place :)

Title: Re: SCENES OF THE BATTLE OF "CHIARAJJE"
Post by Matthias on Jul 29^th, 2004 at 10:08am

Yikes! :o I bet they aren't slinging tennis balls.... (like those SCA softies) As fun as it would be to have a giant sling battle, I'm not sure about:

Getting whacked with one of those metal tipped "whips"
Getting whacked with a fist sized rock
Confidence in my ability to sling while kneeling on horseback (didn't we have a thread about this?)
Having my women "borrowed"

The drinking and music and slinging sound fun though, maybe a model for the first ever Slinging.org meet...

Matthias

Title: Re: SCENES OF THE BATTLE OF "CHIARAJJE"
Post by Johnny on Jul 29^th, 2004 at 10:43am

Any pics of the slingers"kneeling on the horses back"? Wonder what this looked like?

Title: Re: SCENES OF THE BATTLE OF "CHIARAJJE"
Post by Hondero on Jul 29^th, 2004 at 12:32pm

Most interesting, maybe the only ritual sling battle nowadays. I´ll search more about it. The Balearics of Mallorca in the XVI century also had a similar battle, fighting the differents districts of the citty, mainly on Sundays ;D ... and it was also frequent to have injured people and sometimes deads.

Title: Re: SCENES OF THE BATTLE OF "CHIARAJJE"
Post by Yurek on Jul 29^th, 2004 at 1:14pm

Yeah, it seems to be the most exciting kind of play with sling but... a litlle bit unhealthy ;D

Well... just a play for true slingers only ;)

Jurek

Title: Re: SCENES OF THE BATTLE OF "CHIARAJJE"
Post by rob on Jul 29^th, 2004 at 7:17pm

doesn't seem real healthy, but i know if i was there i couldn't just watch.... :)

Title: Re: SCENES OF THE BATTLE OF "CHIARAJJE"
Post by Hondero on Jul 30^th, 2004 at 11:18am

[quote author=Yurek link=board=1;num=1091098283;start=0#6 it seems to be the most exciting kind of play with sling but... a litlle bit unhealthy ;D

[/quote]

Yeah, very unhealthy, and sometimes I´ve thought that it could be organized these type of battles with sling in an inoffensive way thanks to the technology, using projectiles like those of paintball, that stain but do not kill ;D. Perhaps this would help this noble discipline of the sling to become more popular and amusing.

Title: Re: SCENES OF THE BATTLE OF "CHIARAJJE"
Post by mgreenfield on Jul 30^th, 2004 at 12:37pm

Slinging equal to paintball would be to use tennis balls rolled in colored chalk dust as ammo. Different colored chalk for different teams. Could be fun, but tough to carry much ammo at one time. mgreenfield

Title: Re: SCENES OF THE BATTLE OF "CHIARAJJE"
Post by David_T on Jul 30^th, 2004 at 7:55pm

Cool Idea MG! Each team could carry a bag with their color of chalk and 5-6 tennis balls rolling around in it.

If you hit your enemy in his chaulk bag it would look like he exploded! ;D This is cool --- but I haven't even read what the topic is ::) Maybe I should go back and read what you are all discussung.