VI CONCURSO MONTE AVENTURA DE TIRO CON HONDA
DOMINGO, 02/OCTUBRE/05 EN LA FERIA DE ISTÁN (MÁLAGA). ANDALUCIA - SPAIN -.

Después de interés despertado en anteriores años por la original prueba y coincidiendo con la Feria y Fiestas de Istán, el próximo domingo, 2 de octubre a las 5 de la tarde se celebrará el VI Concurso MONTE AVENTURA de Tiro con Honda en el lugar denominado Mirador "Tajo Banderas".

MONTE AVENTURA, tu guía más natural es una empresa dedicada a ofrecer rutas guiadas al Parque Natural "Sierra de las Nieves", y comprometida con el medio ambiente y las tradiciones de los pueblos de la Sierra. En sus excursiones son numerosas las veces que se cruzan con pastores y cabreros y aprenden de sus costumbres. Entre ellas, la Honda que es su principal herramienta tradicional y que aun hoy en día es usada por ellos.

Este útil, es una larga trenza de fibra vegetal (esparto o pita) que ellos elaboran de forma artesanal. Su función de lanzar piedras les sirve para conducir el ganado o para defenderlo de animales salvajes.

Este Concurso tiene por objetivo promocionar este deporte autóctono, promover las costumbres y la cultura local y rendir un simpático homenaje a los auténticos protagonistas de estas sierras, los cabreros y pastores. Con su callada labor son los que aún mantienen un ancestral modo de vida en contacto directo con la naturaleza y que conservan las costumbres, las tradiciones y la artesanía de otros tiempos y que se han perdido en otros lares.


Algunas veces infravalorados, estos paisanos son los conocedores de los rincones más recónditos de las montañas y sus más fieles protectores. Siempre dispuestos a ayudar tanto en favor del medio ambiente (caso de incendio, etc.) como prestando su hospitalidad al ser humano (orientación, rescates, etc.).

El VI Concurso de Tiro con Honda augura una alta expectación por la gran participación y la gran destreza demostrada en competiciones anteriores. Cabreros y aficionados de la Sierra de las Nieves así como visitantes de la Costa harán habilidad de su puntería.

La inscripción es pública y gratuita por lo que está abierta a todo el interesado que desee participar. Se realizarán demostraciones de Tiro con Honda a larga distancia. Pero este torneo en sí consistirá en demostrar las habilidades de puntería de cada participante a 30 m. de la diana.

Las hondas las cederá la organización aunque cada participante podrá hacer uso de la suya.

La prueba, con dos niveles juvenil y adulto, tendrá una fase de clasificación y otra final. Los premios a repartir entre los diferentes niveles serán trofeos para los ganadores y para los campeones además de trofeos, libros para los jóvenes, y para los adultos una pata de jamón, vino. Se entregará reconocimiento al hondero más veterano.  También habrá un premio especial al cabrero que vista el vestuario tradicional, mejor ataviado.

Durante la celebración de este Torneo de honda, se realizará un taller artesanal de elaboración de hondas de esparto. Donde además de  poder observar y aprender como se hacen, se podrán comprar diferentes productos tradicionales.

Este VI Concurso de Tiro con Honda de la Teria de Istán está organizado por MONTE AVENTURA. Los organizadores quieren expresar el más sincero agradecimiento aL Ayuntamiento de Istán, Bar Troyano, Proinsermant, Cruzcampo, Coca-Cola, Diputación de Málaga y Mancomunidad Sierra de las Nieves, entidades colaboradoras que se han volcado generosamente para contribuir en preservar las tradiciones, la cultura y la identidad de los pueblos de la Sierra.

MONTE AVENTURA quiere invitar a “panochos” y visitantes, a honderos-cabreros, a aficionados o curiosos a practicar y a disfrutar de este simpático torneo y a participar del ambiente festivo de la Feria de Istán.

Esperando contar con su presencia para dar cobertura a esta interesante actividad. Rogamos confirme su asistencia para facilitarle su labor.

Se despide con cordiales saludos

Antonio Calvo Aguilar,
MONTE AVENTURA.
info@monteaventura.com
Móvil 00 34 656 96 04 78
Tlfno. 00 34 952 88 15 19



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I'd love to be there...
Maybe in 2006...
PS: Nice pictures!!!! ;)

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If you need a map to go there, visit http://istan.es/informacion/pagina.asp?pag=enlace_N2_P2_O3

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For those of us that don't speak Spanish, here is an attempt at a translation into English.  Translations were done by Comprendium (http://www.comprendium.es) and BabelFish (http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr), and then compared, combined, and perhaps ruined, by me.

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Sixth MONTE AVENTURA Slinging Competition
Sunday, the second of October 2005, at the Istan Fair in Malaga, Andalucia, Spain


Due to interest drawn by the prior competitions, and in agreement with the Fair and Celebrations of Istán, the Sixth MOUNT ADVENTURE Slinging Competition will be held on Sunday, the 5th of October at 5:00 in the afternoon, at the "Edge Flags"(?) Viewpoint.

MONTE AVENTURA, your best nature guide, is a company dedicated to offering guided tours through the Sierra de las Nieves Nature Park, where you can partake of the environment and the traditions of the mountain towns (not real sure about this sentence...).  Tourists frequently encounter shepherds and goatherds, and can learn about their customs, including the sling, their traditional and continuing tool for herding.

This tool is a long handmade braid of fiber (esparto or pita), used for casting stones, both to herd sheep or goats and to defend them from wild animals.

This Competition is designed to promote the native sport of slinging, and also to promote the local customs and culture, and pay tribute to the authentic protagonists of the mountain ranges, the goatherds and shepherds.  In their quiet work, they maintain an ancestral way of life in close communion with nature, and they preserve traditions and crafts that have become lost to our modern world.

Sometimes underestimated, these countrymen are connoisseurs of the hidden reaches of the mountains, and are their most faithful protectors.  They are always willing to assist in protecting the environment (in case of fire or other natural disaster) and hospitable toward other people (giving directions, assisting with rescues, and so on).

The Sixth Slinging Competition presages a high expectation, due to the large participation and the great skill demonstrated in previous competitions.  Goatherds and aficianados of the Sierra de las Nieves, as wel as visitors from the Coast, will demonstrate their skills and accuracy.

The inscription(?) is public and free, and so is open to all who are interested and wish to participate.  There will be demonstrations of long-distance slinging, but the competition proper will consist of demonstrating accuracy with the sling at 30 metres from the target.

Slings will be provided by the organizers, for those participants who choose not to use their own slings.

The contest will have two categories, for youth and for adults, and will be divided into two phases, qualification(?) and the finals(?).  Prizes to be distributed include trophies for the champions, secondary trophies, books for the youth and a leg of ham and bottle of wine for the adults.  Special recognition will be given to the oldest(?) slinger present.  There will also be a special prize for the goatherd who best shows the traditional attire.

During the celebration of this tournament, a craft workshop will take place, where one may learn how to make slings from esparto.  Other traditional products will also be exhibited for sale.

This Sixth Slinging Competition of the Teria de Istan is organized by MONTE AVENTURA.  The organizers wish to epxress their sincere gratitude to the town council of Istan, the Trojan Bar, Proinsermant, Curzcamp, Coca-Cola, the regional government of Malaga and the Association of the Sierra de las Nieves, organizations that have collaborated and have very generously contributed to preserving the traditions, culture and identity of the towns of the Sierra.

MONTE AVENTURA wishes to invite panochos(?) and visitors, slinger/goatherds and aficianados of the sling, to compete and to enjoy this excellent competition, and to share in the festive atmosphere of the Fair of Istan.

We hope we can count on your presence at this interesting event.  Please confirm your attendance, to facilitate our work(? -- registration, etc?).

I take my leave, with warm greetings,

Antonio Calvo Aguilar,  
MONTE AVENTURA.  
info@monteaventura.com
Cell phone: 00 34 656 96 04 78
Telephone: 00 34 952 88 15 19

i hope to attend ££ permitting
sv  

I hope I translated the part right, about the event being free.  The organizer is a commercial tourism company; but they have a number of large corporate sponsors, so maybe they were given enough money to cover all the costs, and you won't have to pay -- except to get there!

Participate in the Sling Shot Contest is free!!

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The translation was fine, you really did a good work. Congratulations!!!! :)

Well, I am convinced that: 1. The translator tool you used is good; and 2. Even if you don't know, it sounds to me that you are really good in spanish... I know this tools are not perfect - and will they be someday? - so you had to "paste" and adpted it... and did it nicely.

I'm sure you can get there from Southampton as well.  Anyways, if anyone turns up from America, please don't be shocked when you get off the plane and everyone is English, fat and completely sunburnt.

lol

Reading the title, I thought this was a "sling-shot" competition......... :P

I'd love to be there, but I have already used up my holidays............. :'(

wrote on Sep 1^st, 2005 at 12:44pm:

I'm sure you can get there from Southampton as well.  Anyways, if anyone turns up from America, please don't be shocked when you get off the plane and everyone is English, fat and completely sunburnt.

hehe;

oh we're off to dance in sunny Spain...el viva Espanya. La la la la .....

What about Australia? are Aussies welcome ($ permitting for me too)
Tito

Are you training? . . .

I bet you a crate of beer or a box of wine.           http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/nikolas.lloyd/weapons/anisling.gif

:DJa, Ja, . . .Ja    ;D             
               

What are the rules for the slings that they use? Do they have to be split pouch, natural fibers,??

Monte Aventura:

What rules will be used for the competion?  Will you be following the FBTF (Federacio Balear de Tir de Fona) rules?

David,
I think they are requiring natural fibers for the slings.  The advertisement mentioned esparto and pita as examples of what to make slings of.

It would be good to get Vicente to let us know what the regulations are. If you read this post Vicente, could you let us know?

I mostly use a woven sling with a leather pouch using the "20 Steps" method. The hemp wears out too fast using concrete so I mostly use nylon.

The part of the Hemp sling that wears out the fastest is the release knot. All that whip action and the knot just snaps off after about a month or two of use. Any suggestions??

Make a new sling every 6 weeks  ;D

Willeke

The draw back of this type of sling is the time it takes to stitch the cord through the pouch four times--two through each set of holes. Actually, the real problem is the rough concrete. If I had nice smooth river rocks It would last much longer.

Hey Willeke, you know a lot about knots...is there a practical way to add to the release cord where the knot has broken off? I have several slings that have good leather pouches but the release cord is short and I have to tie knots in the retaining cord to shorten it up to match the broken off release cord? I use the 4 strand round braid that I found on your wb site. I mentioned that a long time ago \, but incase you never read it, Thank you for such a clear and easy discription of how to braid. I had looked and looked for how to braid and only found crazy and very confusing pictures and directions until I came across your web site.

are there any videos out there of balaeric slingers in action?
sv

with regard to the release knot breaking off a natural fibre sling - most balaeric slings don't have a release knot.  instead they have a long thin piece held across the hand. that's what mine has, and althouth it's starting to wear, i've been using it for at least six months.
sv

David,
Thanks for your nice words, I like my site to be usefull and after reading your post on it I have added some more braids.

Concerning your broken braids, if you want you can splice in new string, but it is going to be a lot of work, and it will show a little.

Take a needle with a blunt point which has an eye just big enough to get your string in.
Now start following one of your strings with the new one, using your needle. At the end of your braid let the string stick out and startwith a new string in a different spot. Your string will get twice as thick now. You can take out the old string, and then it is even more important not to start at the same point.

I hope you understand, but as I said, it is a lot of work and the results are likely to be disapointing, certainly the first.

Willeke

Thanks Willeke, I may give it a try.

SV

I remember about a year ago someone taking about a video from Spain. Maybe it was Hondero but I have not seen one.

Come on, por favor, someone over there video the next competion.

I'm going in a few minutes to Istan, got my sling, and a bag of stones and my camera with 1 Gb sd memory card, hope to take a lfew videos and pics,  and  try to win something  ;D
See you all later!!!

Watched some of the movies from this posted by zorro.   Downloads very slow, but worth it.

VERY! encouraging!!!   These folks not a lot better than me.

;D

Here we came again.

Sunday, 1 -october- 06. 17.00 hours.

Competition Sling Shot in Istan (Málaga) Spain.

Sorry to resurect this thread, But I'm waiting for evening christmas services and wide awake after a two hour evening siesta.
So how can we get to see the movies?

Thanks
Marc Adkins


mgreenfield wrote on Oct 26^th, 2005 at 10:37pm:

Watched some of the movies from this posted by zorro.   Downloads very slow, but worth it. VERY! encouraging!!!   These folks not a lot better than me. ;D

Marc,

Zorrro posted his videos at Putfile.com.  They are not there anymore.  I do not know if anyone downloaded them ... if I remember, Putfile made it difficult to download anything.  ... I just checked a video on the Putfile site, it is still just about impossible to download anything.  We will have to try to get the videos from Zorrro.

Thanks Dale,
Just let me know

Marc Adkins


Dale wrote on Dec 25^th, 2006 at 1:44am:

Marc, Zorrro posted his videos at Putfile.com.  They are not there anymore.  I do not know if anyone downloaded them ... if I remember, Putfile made it difficult to download anything.  ... I just checked a video on the Putfile site, it is still just about impossible to download anything.  We will have to try to get the videos from Zorrro.

Hey, did anyone go to the competition this year?

Here we came again. You´ll keep trainning

Sunday, 30 -SEPTEMBER- 2.007. 17.00 hours.
Competition Sling Shot in Istan (Málaga) Spain.


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Maria Jesus, 93 years old. the supergrandmother wishes to fight and to bet with you
Sunday, 30 -SEPTEMBER- 2.007. 17.00 hours.
Competition Sling Shot in Istan (Málaga) Spain.

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Go Granny Go! ;D
Marc Adkins


MONTE AVENTURA wrote on Jan 25^th, 2007 at 5:00am:

Here we came again. You´ll keep trainning Sunday, 30 -SEPTEMBER- 2.007. 17.00 hours. Competition Sling Shot in Istan (Málaga) Spain. http://www.slinging.org/images/mariajesus051s.jpg Maria Jesus, 93 years old. the supergrandmother wishes to fight and to bet with you Sunday, 30 -SEPTEMBER- 2.007. 17.00 hours. Competition Sling Shot in Istan (Málaga) Spain. http://www.slinging.org/images/honda04bs.jpg

bring it on grandma !
lol

MONTE AVENTURA wrote on Jan 25^th, 2007 at 5:00am:

Here we came again. You´ll keep trainning Sunday, 30 -SEPTEMBER- 2.007. 17.00 hours. Competition Sling Shot in Istan (Málaga) Spain.

I'd love to see that! But for one evening to Spain...hmm, might be a bit expensive. Would it be a problem that I do not speak a single word of Spanish?

Just bring your sling and let it do all the talking :)
Marc Adkins


Dravonk wrote on Feb 5^th, 2007 at 11:31am:

MONTE AVENTURA wrote on Jan 25th, 2007 at 5:00am: Here we came again. You´ll keep trainning Sunday, 30 -SEPTEMBER- 2.007. 17.00 hours. Competition Sling Shot in Istan (Málaga) Spain. I'd love to see that! But for one evening to Spain...hmm, might be a bit expensive. Would it be a problem that I do not speak a single word of Spanish?

winkleried wrote on Feb 5^th, 2007 at 1:01pm:

Just bring your sling and let it do all the talking :)

Nah, I do not know whether I will be good enough to attend the competition. I'd just like to see it. And hey, just imagine I'd accidentally win a leg of ham: I am vegetarian... ;-)

Throw a party and you have friends to stay the rest of the week.
(Otherwise you need to book a hotel  :) )

Willeke