nwmanitou
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Well, it's a little complicated. When I first saw the throw it blew my mind how fast it was. It is one continuous movement. There is no noticable awkward wind up. It takes place within one stride, like a baseball pitch.
I'm going to borrow my friends video camera and see if I can get a little movie clip of the throw. But until then. I'll try and describe it.
You start with the pouch being held out with your left hand, both arms extended in front of you. Then you let the pouch drop, as you begin to take a step forward with your left foot. The pouch and your right arm swing down parrallel to your right leg, then by using your wrist and swing away from your body then up to make a rotation behind your back. At the bottom of the rotation your right arm is extended behind you as if you were just about to throw a base ball and the sling is straight back, taut, and already moving, then with all your force you go into an overhand throw and send the rock humming as you shift all your weight to your left leg. The power behind this throw is that when you are ready to put all your strength into the hurl the sling is already pulled tight behind you and moving. Also, because you don't have to time the rotations, or "wind up", it's easy to control the vector at which the sling is brought over your shoulder in the throw. You can do everything from straight over hand to side arm, thus improving your accuracy.
It took several slow motion demonstrations for me to be able to understand the throw due to how fluid it is. I'm going to make a quicktime video of it so it's easy to watch it frame by frame. Not sure when though, I just finished my last final today so I'm thinking I want to sleep for a week or two before the next semester starts up.
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