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David_T Funditor Past Moderator Offline Hooked on Sling'n Posts: 760 Greenville,SC Gender:	Re: WELCOME TO THE SLING SHOT COMPETITION IN SPAIN Reply #15 - Sep 24^th, 2005 at 1:47pm What are the rules for the slings that they use? Do they have to be split pouch, natural fibers,??
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Dale Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Posts: 1581 California, USA Gender:	Re: WELCOME TO THE SLING SHOT COMPETITION IN SPAIN Reply #16 - Sep 24^th, 2005 at 9:29pm 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.
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Reply #17 - Sep 24^th, 2005 at 10:19pm

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??

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Willeke Interfector Viris Spurii Past Moderator Offline Give me some string and I know what to do. Posts: 2072 Netherlands Gender:	Re: WELCOME TO THE SLING SHOT COMPETITION IN SPAIN Reply #18 - Sep 25^th, 2005 at 3:38am Make a new sling every 6 weeks Willeke
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Reply #19 - Sep 25^th, 2005 at 2:21pm

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.

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sv Funditor Offline Posts: 764 ireland	Re: WELCOME TO THE SLING SHOT COMPETITION IN SPAIN Reply #20 - Sep 25^th, 2005 at 3:21pm are there any videos out there of balaeric slingers in action? sv
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sv Funditor Offline Posts: 764 ireland	Re: WELCOME TO THE SLING SHOT COMPETITION IN SPAIN Reply #21 - Sep 25^th, 2005 at 3:25pm 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
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Reply #22 - Sep 25^th, 2005 at 4:18pm

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

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David_T Funditor Past Moderator Offline Hooked on Sling'n Posts: 760 Greenville,SC Gender:	Re: WELCOME TO THE SLING SHOT COMPETITION IN SPAIN Reply #23 - Sep 26^th, 2005 at 7:22pm 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.
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Zorrro Funditor Offline Yeah, i guess most of us love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 530 Granada (Spain) Gender:	Re: WELCOME TO THE SLING SHOT COMPETITION IN SPAIN Reply #24 - Oct 2^nd, 2005 at 6:42am 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 See you all later!!!
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mgreenfield Funditor Offline Posts: 509 Milwaukee Wisconsin Gender:	Re: WELCOME TO THE SLING SHOT COMPETITION IN SPAIN Reply #25 - 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.
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MONTE AVENTURA Tiro Offline The Real Spanish Shepherd Posts: 15	SLING SHOT COMPETITION IN SPAIN´06. October 1 &nb Reply #26 - Sep 24^th, 2006 at 9:26pm Here we came again. Sunday, 1 -october- 06. 17.00 hours. Competition Sling Shot in Istan (Málaga) Spain.
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Reply #27 - Dec 24^th, 2006 at 8:51pm

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.

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Reply #28 - 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.

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Reply #29 - Dec 25^th, 2006 at 10:37am

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.

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