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Message started by Morphy on Dec 18th, 2021 at 11:25am

Title: The 30 Round
Post by Morphy on Dec 18th, 2021 at 11:25am
I want to add a new “thing” to slinging. It’s the 30 round.  Which is simply speaking 13 meters/ 30 shots at a standard Balearic target with tennis balls. No edits, no cuts. When watching people’s videos simply play it back at double speed if you wish or do like NOOC did and provide both the original no cut and then the edited for easier viewing. The key here is there must be a video that is unedited and uncut of the entire 30 round for it to count as one if it’s going to be posted with an official score.  ;)

I do have to admit I did not make up the idea of a 30 round.  In Archery there is the 300 round which is called such because it involves shooting 30 arrows each with a maximum score of 10 points yielding a maximum possible score of 300 points. 

It takes about an hour and one thing that is well known about the 300 round is that if you really want to do it at a high level it is quite mentally taxing due to the focus over the extended period of time.

Enter the 30 round. With a 30 round you can say good bye to cherry picking. Sure you can get 5 shots in a row that are great on video but good luck doing that with 30. Especially multiple 30 rounds. Your averages WILL show up which is really great because it will help you grow. (Although don’t worry for us this won’t take anywhere near an hour to do. More like 3-7 minutes).

More than that it’s a great mental focus exercise for slingers and the degree of focus we need for high levels of accuracy is right up there with the hardest weapons in the world.

Anyways, NOOC and I have already done this anyone else interested?  :)

https://youtu.be/ohWWQq8GTPQ

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by joe_meadmaker on Dec 18th, 2021 at 12:07pm
Great session!  I'll do one next time I have a chance.

Are you left-handed Morphy?  I thought you were slinging right in your other videos.

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by MikeG on Dec 18th, 2021 at 1:09pm

joe_meadmaker wrote on Dec 18th, 2021 at 12:07pm:
Great session!  I'll do one next time I have a chance.

Are you left-handed Morphy?  I thought you were slinging right in your other videos.


he shoots right in other videos

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by Morphy on Dec 18th, 2021 at 2:24pm

joe_meadmaker wrote on Dec 18th, 2021 at 12:07pm:
Great session!  I'll do one next time I have a chance.

Are you left-handed Morphy?  I thought you were slinging right in your other videos.


No Sir but for some reason my camera likes to mirror image videos. Its a Samsung Note 10+. Figured we were past these types of silly bugs but apparently not.  ;D

I think I might follow IGs lead and try. It would be great to be equally good (or bad) with both hands.

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by joe_meadmaker on Dec 18th, 2021 at 2:55pm
It's all good.  Saw you throwing right-handed in the competition and started thinking maybe you were ambidextrous.  :)

I tried slinging left a long time ago.  Kind of feels like slinging for the first time.  Sarosh has done a bunch of practice with left handed.

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by Morphy on Dec 18th, 2021 at 7:14pm
Joe, just watched your round 2 LOL wow!! Wtf man  ;D

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by joe_meadmaker on Dec 18th, 2021 at 8:11pm
Yeah, crazy huh?!  I was definitely summoning my inner Mersa for that round.  :D

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by Kick on Dec 19th, 2021 at 3:28am
I will definitely be taking part once I am back in Finland, snow and ice be damned!

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by Morphy on Dec 19th, 2021 at 6:39am

joe_meadmaker wrote on Dec 18th, 2021 at 12:07pm:
Great session!  I'll do one next time I have a chance.

Are you left-handed Morphy?  I thought you were slinging right in your other videos.




Kick wrote on Dec 19th, 2021 at 3:28am:
I will definitely be taking part once I am back in Finland, snow and ice be damned!



Yes! So glad to hear people are interested! NOOC has. I think Mersa mentioned he had, Channing said he would now two more. Lets get em posted boys!

For me I just like watching slinging. It literally rained all day yesterday. I wouldve liked nothing more than to put up a playlist of Sorg members doing 30 rounds on my tv while building my new sling. Geez come to think of it that sounds a lot like an addiction lol.

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by Morphy on Dec 26th, 2021 at 8:43am
https://youtu.be/0jHpHIxg6hM

After the Christmas festivities and everyone was winding down doing their own thing I had to sneak out for a slinging session. Over the last month or so I’ve really been trying to practice more. So for the next hour and a half I slung oh a good 200 tennis balls I would say and then decided to do a little video.  Here’s the vid.

Weirdly enough my groupings got worse with quite a few more wild misses but my hit percentage actually went up a little for the video? Not sure how that works but then again don’t really understand how most of the sling works so that should come as no surprise. I’ll post the full vid later, this is edited down to quick shot format.

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by joe_meadmaker on Dec 26th, 2021 at 9:56am
Good session Morphy.  It threw me off at first.  I didn't read the title and was wondering why you were under the target with everything.  ;D

I've started making ice for a 30 round (don't have enough of anything else).  I should be able to do one in the next few days.  I asked Santa Claus for some tennis balls, but he didn't come through yet.  I've been told he will be visiting me on New Years Day.  :-?

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by Morphy on Dec 26th, 2021 at 1:42pm
I ended up buying a ton of tennis balls. Never cared for them before but  Ive got close to a 100 now between my milk crate and scattered back in the forest. Still need to try the ice balls though. Someone needs to make a nice silicone biconical mold. How cool would that be.

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by NooneOfConsequence on Dec 26th, 2021 at 3:12pm
For those with absolutely nothing better to do, here’s my 30:

https://youtu.be/DO0WniphZps

And the short version on Instagram here:

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CXnGdrfjfn_/?utm_medium=copy_link

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by Morphy on Dec 26th, 2021 at 4:14pm
Excellent as usual NOOC. We need to plan a trip out to West Texas/Oklahoma and do some sling hunting. Would make for a hell of a sling video. Just need to find some time off. So maybe in 2025.

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by joe_meadmaker on Dec 26th, 2021 at 10:07pm
Holy moly!  Morphy, you need to post a spoiler alert or something when linking something like that.  Great round NOOC!

I think I'm giving up target slinging.  It's just shields, destruction, and great big stones for me from here on out.  ;D

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by Morphy on Dec 27th, 2021 at 11:47am

joe_meadmaker wrote on Dec 26th, 2021 at 10:07pm:
I think I'm giving up target slinging.





You took the old kung fu movies too literally. "Become the target Joe"  ;D

But definitely dont quit target slinging. That balearic target is too darn pretty not to use.

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by joe_meadmaker on Feb 20th, 2022 at 5:09pm
Time to bump this topic.

I finally got a 30 Round recorded.  I did one a while back but my target was brand new and the weather wasn't great.  I did really terrible.  I think I only hit the target 2 or 3 times (literally) in 30 throws.  But this one went much better.

Oh yeah, one more thing to mention.  I cheated and used ice.  I got some tennis balls recently but still only have 12, so not enough to do a round without a lot of running around.

https://youtu.be/iIHPUcNDqq8

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by Mersa on Feb 21st, 2022 at 6:02am
I also did one a few weeks ago but forgot to put it on here.

https://youtu.be/vQY3RdoF1Hk

Good work joe.
I’ve been a little inactive on the forum lately, miss my mead maker, I guess soon is the egg challenge, we alway ramp up slinging again around this time

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by Curious Aardvark on Feb 21st, 2022 at 7:29am
egg challenge ?

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by Mersa on Feb 21st, 2022 at 7:49am
Easter we break eggs

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by Morphy on Feb 21st, 2022 at 3:31pm

joe_meadmaker wrote on Feb 20th, 2022 at 5:09pm:
Time to bump this topic.

I finally got a 30 Round recorded.  I did one a while back but my target was brand new and the weather wasn't great.  I did really terrible.  I think I only hit the target 2 or 3 times (literally) in 30 throws.  But this one went much better.

Oh yeah, one more thing to mention.  I cheated and used ice.  I got some tennis balls recently but still only have 12, so not enough to do a round without a lot of running around.

https://youtu.be/iIHPUcNDqq8


Nice job!

I wouldnt call that cheating so long as we know the type of ammo we can make comparisons. Ive been struggling with a wicked case of tennis elbow (im convinced from slinging tennis balls too hard) and probably wont be going back to tennis balls once it heals so for your sake, mine and others I suggest maybe we consider a less restrictive view on ammo in these challenges.  :-? ;)

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by joe_meadmaker on Feb 21st, 2022 at 5:10pm
@Mersa - I dd see yours.  You and NOOC both had crazy good rounds.  Amazing to watch.  Looking forward to the egg challenge too.  Although I haven't given any thought yet on what to do.  I guess I could try to hit an egg with a 2.5 kg stone.  ;D


@Morphy - I completely get the idea of having everyone sling the same type of projectile to keep things consistent.  But that in itself can bring about disadvantages.  The only time I sling tennis balls is for the short distance in the Practical Paracord competition.  So any time those come up as the projectile of choice, my time with them is limited.  I'm not blaming anyone.  That's completely my own choice.  But it's not likely to change either.

If there a challenge or competition going on and it's thought projectile weight could be a factor in the outcome, any results or standings could be broken into projectile weight categories.  Everyone break out their rusty balls!

Hope you heal up fast my man.

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by Mersa on Feb 22nd, 2022 at 6:25am
I like the egg and pumpkin challenge, the egg is small but easy to break the pumpkin is big and hard to break, both have equally thrilling characteristics when smashed.

Heavy stones like that are fast becoming your specialty.
Perhaps a castle siege with Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall .
Just a thought!

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by joe_meadmaker on Mar 13th, 2022 at 3:34am
I did another 30 Round with a sling I got from Practical Paracord.  I like it.

https://youtu.be/gA0X9VTIwrQ

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by Morphy on Mar 13th, 2022 at 6:42pm
Nice!! I miss slinging. It was fun.

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by Hirtius on Mar 13th, 2022 at 8:30pm

joe_meadmaker wrote on Feb 20th, 2022 at 5:09pm:
Time to bump this topic.

I finally got a 30 Round recorded.  I did one a while back but my target was brand new and the weather wasn't great.  I did really terrible.  I think I only hit the target 2 or 3 times (literally) in 30 throws.  But this one went much better.

Oh yeah, one more thing to mention.  I cheated and used ice.  I got some tennis balls recently but still only have 12, so not enough to do a round without a lot of running around.

https://youtu.be/iIHPUcNDqq8


Awesome video and also awesome shirt!

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by joe_meadmaker on Mar 14th, 2022 at 8:34pm

Morphy wrote on Mar 13th, 2022 at 6:42pm:
Nice!! I miss slinging. It was fun.

How is the recovery coming along?  I hope you're at least seeing a little improvement.



Hirtius wrote on Mar 13th, 2022 at 8:30pm:
Awesome video and also awesome shirt!

Thanks man!

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by Mersa on Apr 14th, 2022 at 4:52am
More content
30 round at 20 m
https://youtu.be/Vu_gUN93ML8

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by Morphy on Apr 14th, 2022 at 6:51am

@Joe How is the recovery coming along?  I hope you're at least seeing a little improvement.


Woke up this morning and it actually feels less stiff and painful. Realistically speaking I probably have a good 3 more months at least before its healed enough to chance it but theres definitely been an improvement. At its worst I could barely bend the elbow or lift any weight with my arm extended. It was bad. So yeah, happy to see its healing, albeit slowly.

@Mersa- Ive said it before but barring any nervousness issues at the international competition I think you and a few others here have repeatedly shown you could win it on any given day.

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by joe_meadmaker on Apr 14th, 2022 at 11:15pm

Morphy wrote on Apr 14th, 2022 at 6:51am:
@Mersa- Ive said it before but barring any nervousness issues at the international competition I think you and a few others here have repeatedly shown you could win it on any given day.

+1

I need to get out there again.  These guys have better scores at 20 meters than I have at 13.

Awesome stuff Mersa!  I think on that very last throw you took too long to think about it.  Got into your own head.

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by Morphy on Apr 17th, 2022 at 4:25pm
Watching them sling tennis balls at 30 meters and actually hit things is really my favorite motivation. Or is that demoralization. Its one of those words.  ;)

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by IronGoober on Apr 17th, 2022 at 5:41pm
This is my tennis ball motivation. Oldie but goldie!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI5LTMpzSfw

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by joe_meadmaker on Apr 17th, 2022 at 10:02pm
That is pretty incredible!  :)

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by Morphy on Apr 18th, 2022 at 5:57am
Good video IG, easily in my top 5 favorite slingers.

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by joe_meadmaker on May 4th, 2022 at 8:45am
I got another 30 Round here.  This one is at 30 meters, so the score is a bit low but I was pretty happy overall.  I'm also using the sling I got from J's Etsy store in this video.  I like it.

https://youtu.be/cLWVUi4uJKM

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by J on May 4th, 2022 at 8:57am
if all things go right you should get another sling soon. It will be a solid pouch

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by J on May 4th, 2022 at 9:29am
I enjoyed watching it. I am not sure the next one you will get will hold on to those ice balls, it will be slimmer. your x pouch seems to Xcel at it. You will have to judge yourself. The next sling is made for the same grip, that does help with slippery projectiles.
I find this grip ideal with sidearm / Balearic style release, just throw the release cord towards the target.

Title: Re: The 30 Round
Post by joe_meadmaker on May 4th, 2022 at 5:36pm
Thanks man!  I did see the email notification for the shipping.  No problem on the pouch style.  You're correct that it probably won't do an ice ball very well.  But I've been planning to make some smaller sized rusty balls to accommodate pouches like that.  I have several other slings that also won't do well with spherical projectiles, and I want to use them.  So that will be happening very soon anyway.

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