Respect.

You are quite the slinger, I'm better than average when I'm slinging regularly but you are much better than I am.

Id love to see some of your slings also.

How do you practice? do you work hard on form and keeping focused or do you just sling constantly? or both lol

Normally each one slings for competicions wen we can, I do it  abaut 40 min a day, and week ends we manage to go somewere and be one o two hours ,but depends.
The important thing is not training every day a lot of time, the best thing is have a good tecnic and have the sling in perfect condicions, they have been balearic champions that they only have a good tecnic and never practise.
(sorry for my grammar).

Hi, Balearic-sling.
The sling in the picture is obviously braided from a rather hard and stiff and `hairy` material, this explain the wish for a leater lining in the finger hole.  The hemp I can get, is more than soft enough without it.  If I want leather there, I could easily sew it on.

Also I see is the lack of leater reinforcement in the split. I guess this is really optional.

What i would really like to see now, is the gripping end, with or without a gripping knot.  I have glimpsed both on the balearic videos I have seen.  How do you prefer it?  How is the end of your slings?
timann

Yes, C-A I can see it.  But still, the sling dissapear between the thumb and index finger, and reappear as a tail beyond the little finger, and that is the little bit I`m interested in

After braiding slings for, what is it, weeks, I have experimented with a lot of different ways of thinning and knotting in that bit of the sling.  And Balearic-slinger keeps the secret hidden in his hand in that picture

Usually I continue full braid thickness thru where I grip, without a grip knot, then thins the braid out rapidly,and finnish the ends with simple overhand knots beyond my hand.

I have also tinned the release end braid down so it is thin enough to make a grip knot, then continued with a thin braided tail, and finnished as the first.
And several other ways...you see, I can too much, and know too little

I still got a lot to learn and love to see other peoples solutions
timann

go on then who's going to be the first to shout 'bloody hell that's expensive'.
lol
someone usually does ;-)

Given the time and effort involved in a hand braided sling I think it's pretty reasonable.

I have been doing a little bit of mathemathics, and checked currency values.  I do not think balearic-slingers prices are bad at all, now.  If I should deside to braid up a some slings, and sell them, at a middle age or viking fair or something, I would not bother unless I could get at least 200 norwegian kroner for each of them.  That would be ca 25 euro or 40$, i believe.

And measurinc, cutting, and sewing on leather would mean extra time and expense.  So there you have it.

But this has not been something that has been happening (but I might have planted  a seed, perhaps, once, when I met some viking reenactors and creftsmen )

After all, knotting, braiding and splicing have been my hobby for some 20ish years
timann

balearic-sling wrote on Apr 18^th, 2008 at 8:46am:

OK - so I've been wondering if anyone has any concrete information about this program.

Going through the schedules on the History Channel website there is such little detail on program content that I can only guess that this may mean a program called "Ancient Discoveries: Ancient Super Ballistics" which shows at 9pm Eastern on Tuesday 17th June.

Does anyone know any different?