Hiya everyone,

Long time lurker here!! I have been occasionally lurking here for a couple of years and finally got around to joining this informative community.

I live in Parkes (home of "the Dish") New South Wales Australia, out in the bush. I have had a go at making a sling but it needs a helping hand. Luckily Aussieslinger is sending me a pouch to help me a bit (*waves* thanks).  Really looking forward to learning slinging. BTW is there any lefty's here? Does this pose much of a problem or does anyone have any lefty tips for me?
Thanks in advance if you do.

Michaela

Welcome dazza,

We have a few lefties here.  I haven't heard of any tips nor problems being a left handed slinger so far!  Hope you'll have a good time here.

Tint

That's funny!!lol

Hi Cliff,

Sorry if I offended you. It was not my intention to belittle anyone, certainly not your comment, which I did not consider silly in any way.  Whilst not a lefty myself my sister is and like you she tends to do some things with her left and others with her right. I know it can be frustrating to live in a world where everything is the wrong way around for you. I had to be so careful when driving in Germany, and that was only for a week or two. We drive the English way here, on the left side of the road.

My little rave is from beginning to end absolute nonsense, intended only as a joke. Telling "tall stories" is somewhat of a national past-time in Australia where the whole aim of the game is making them utterly preposterous and yet somehow believable at the same time. The only thing in the whole story that is true is that a person standing on the south pole can only throw north. This has nothing to do with slinging, but is a quirk of geography. As all the lines of longitude converge, for a person standing exactly on the south pole, any direction is north. (And vv. for the norh pole.)
 
As for the Coriolis effect I had not heard of it by name at all and thank you for educating me on something which is fascinating in itself. One common story put about here is that whirpools in the northern hemisphere rotate the opposite way to the way they do here. Whilst I have no scientific proof to the contrary, this also sounds as far fetched as my story.

Apologies and regards,

Aussieslinger

aussieslinger
You didn't offend me at all!  I don't even know what I would have been offended by.  Seriously, don't worry about it.  I was just wondering about what you said about the spin of the earth, and I was like "Is this guy serious?".  I'm glad to hear you're not.  Just, some people like to overcomplicate things, and I thought that's what you were doing, so I tried to correct you.