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Title: First throw with a Sling
Post by timpa on Sep 15^th, 2022 at 12:51pm

You can see from this video that Figure 8 especially hard to grasp the first time.
She (Sanna) has never touched a Sling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DgY5hjJSPo

Title: Re: First throw with a Sling
Post by Rat Man on Sep 15^th, 2022 at 3:00pm

She did fine. I tell all of my students that if you can get the projectile moving forward on your first few throws you've succeeded.

Title: Re: First throw with a Sling
Post by joe_meadmaker on Sep 15^th, 2022 at 9:48pm

Nice! Yep, figure-8 is definitely a tough one to start out with.

Title: Re: First throw with a Sling
Post by timpa on Sep 16^th, 2022 at 1:18pm

Thanks guys!
Otherwise, Fig-8 would have come later. But because of the video, it immediately came second.
It took a few throws and then she realized the trajectory. Surprisingly fast. Maybe it helped that she has been into dancing.

Title: Re: First throw with a Sling
Post by Blindsquirrel on Sep 23^rd, 2022 at 11:10am

https://youtu.be/xBkIhCaMP2c
This is a video of the swing I think y’all r trying to reproduce.

Title: Re: First throw with a Sling
Post by timpa on Sep 23^rd, 2022 at 1:01pm

Yep!
But, the goal was not pure performance. Only where the sling goes.