One day, I was slinging in my school (I know, I know...) two days after I started slinging, and my accuracy was something good, but not at all.

I told my friend: "Hey, I'll throw you a stone", but I was just joking because I thought my accuracy was too bad.

I threw him the stone with much power (you could hear the sound), and it went directly to his head, then I quickly thought: "HE WILL DIE!". It was really strange because the time went really slow.

My friend quickly avoided the stone and I was really happy because nothing happened.

After that, I was just thinking what could happen to him if that stone would hit him. Also, I promised to not throw stones to the people because it is really dangerous.

Comments?

Jandro A.K.A. Ra

Important safety tip!

Yesterday, I was slinging with my knotted-rope sling -- the one that doesn't hold on to rocks very well.  I had the perfect sling stone, brought from the landscaping in my yard.  I loaded the stone,  started off with a fast wind-up...  and the stone left the pouch.  I looked behind me -- no stone.  To each side -- no stone.  I shrugged, thinking it must have skittered off at ground level or something.   I picked up another stone.  I was about to load it into the cradle when (wait for it)  the original stone crashed into the ground, about 5 feet away from me.  It must have gone almost straight up, and high!  That's when I switched back to my braided, somewhat more secure sling.  The thing is, even when I thought it'd gone off at ground level, I was afraid to look up.  I can just see myself looking towards the sky for an errant stone -- just in time to see it up close, landing on my nose!

My long sling is notorice for slinging stone up high and behind me. I have almost hitt my truck several times becauses of the longer sling.

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Wow. This reminds me of what my father once said: "Never underestimate the stupidity of man kind". 

I've got a feeling I shouldn't be answering this, but I can't help myself.

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So slinging a stone "with much power" as you say, at your friend is not stupid? And if was "cool" like you say, then why did you later say you won't be doing it again? Well, I think we'll let each reader of this thread decide what he or she thinks for themselves. And as you yourself have proven, intelligence is no antidote to stupidity.

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Say what now?

I'd ask you to elaborate, but I don't think that's a debate we want to get ourselves into...

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Of course we have, me included. But we don't learn from our mistakes unless we recongize them as such, that's all I'm saying.

Somebody once told me that it's not important what mistakes we make, only how we react to them.  Don't know if that's true or not -- guess it depends on the mistake -- but like my friend, the pilot, says:  "Any landing you can walk away from counts as good."  I think Hollering at Jandro about how stupid it is to sling at people is kind of redundant.  Sounds like he's already figured that out.  No blood, no foul, no attempts to replicate results.

I wanted comments but not those comments that make people feel bad, you know what I mean?

And, if you didn't know, I alredy recognized that that wasn't a good action. Why did you think I said to not do it again.

And for Enfors, I'm not doing that again because someone could get hurted, but think on that: The same thing happens to you, and you don't get hurted, how do you feel?

Jandro A.K.A. Ra