I was just curious how the book was coming. I haven't seen Chris post in here for a while. Any news?

I haven't seen Chris neither........... :'(

he has not gotten back to me yet...wonder where he is? ???

searching for the lost ark?

ROFL i was wondering where he was

well at least one person thought it was funny

Two people. Or maybe the holy grail. But where is Chris? I'm looking at his profile and it says he last responded on may 29th. Well he has to be around sometime or the site will probably go down  :'(  This is the only forum I go to! Where will we all veg out in front of the computer and learn lethal things if there is no slinging.org?

haha chris is around i just got his e-mail.

did he come back from finding teh arc or teh holy grail i would like to know lol

I am alive!

It's been a crazy summer for me.  I zipped off to Ecuador for 2 weeks in the beginning of the summer, then worked in california for 3 months, and finally scooted off to Morocco for 10 days.  

I've been keeping an eye on site, but never had enough time to engage in any of the discussions.  I tried my best to keep on top of people image upload requests.

Anyway, I'm back home now, and preparing a number of updates to the site.  You'll see them trickle on over the next few days.

Good to see many of you are still active.

Best,
Chris

Cool summer!  Jet-set.

yay! lol

To answer the question at hand, the book is coming, but very slowly.  I have written a paper on the sling comparing it to other weapons, and pose some ideas about why the sling disappeared from the battlefield (by medieval times).  

I know there are a few other people on the forum writing little chunks.  But overall, it's really hard to get enough momentum.  Plus, the fact that literature on the sling is rare at best discourages people from the get-go.  

Chris

wrote on Sep 26^th, 2005 at 10:50pm:

Plus, the fact that literature on the sling is rare at best discourages people from the get-go.

And this of course is also why more information should be made available. It is unfortunate that areas of study lacking in documentation often fall by the wayside of "serious" research because they perpetuate a cycle of disinterest for many. Why hasn't X been researched? Probably because there is no interest, they say. No interest, no study. No study, no further findings. No new interest generated, no further study.

Of course, sometimes it's because there just isn't (seemingly) a whole lot to study in the first place, and I think that's the issue here. What information there is on the sling appears to be constantly recycled, with little questioning of the validity of statements made concerning it. I think that the experience of those who actually use slings, then, is of invaluable use to the proving or disproving of such long-standing "truths".

Chris, the sling did not disappear in the Middle Ages. It was used until the Renaissance. What really did it in was gunpowder. The armor used to protect yourself from the gun was too much for the sling.
  The last reference I have to the sling is in the 1500s,Scandinavia. Guns never really caught on there, so they kept the slings.  
 The 1200-1300s was an active time for battle slinging, in Europe, and the Middle east

Chris is it possible to share your papers with us.
I am very interested.

8 years later, the same question: how is the book coming?
And first of all: did you manage to publish the book?

C_A, mods, elder users... what about the book?
Is it finished? If not, shall we finish it?
Greetings,
Mauro.

Hey, good idea "the Book"... and good question : where is it up to ?

I started a thread a year or so ago on "The Slinging Bible" written the same way as the TBB series, and I had a pretty good set of chapers. I'll bring it back up on general discussion.  :)

project goliath is unlikely to become a book - for a start it's just too big. And for another it'd cost too much.

A smaller more concise volume - like a slingers bible (Hmm, probably going to change that name. Afer all it could just as easily be the slingers torah, or koran, or whatever text buddhists use. So maybe something with non-religious connotations might be better :-) Yeah dan I know, but I'm sure we can come up with something a bit more cosmopolitan :-)  

Sling's Menhir, or Sling's Dolmen... the sacred-stone of the sling !  ;)

CA It isn't really compared to the Holy Bible which, by definition, is "set apart" (holy) from all other "bibles". Where as I am pretty sure the names of other religous text actually mean something in that language.

Though The Slingers Handbook or The Slingers Guide or the Slingers Man Scroll would all work fine too. Deciding the title is not near as vital a task as getting enough script.