In many videos they slow the frames down in order to show the flight of the stone or what have you, but are there any high speed videos, as in 2000 frames per second or above, of a sling in use?

Brutus wrote on Sep 24^th, 2008 at 6:16pm:

To the best of my knowledge there are no posts at anything approaching 2000 frames/sec of slinging, or even 1/20 th of that speed. I have certainly not seen any.

I would guess the fastest original frame rates posted around here are 60fps, and rather low resolution. I think 2000fps would be a significant overkill for everything except perhaps images of bullets hitting melons.

So do you have such a camera lying around waiting to do something? 

Brutus wrote on Sep 24^th, 2008 at 10:58pm:

Well, that's true. 

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They are great videos.

What is that style/technique called (in the first video)?
Looks like a good, effective one to emulate...

All the clips are actually the same shot played back at different speeds to show the finer detail. The style is generally known as Byzantine. Bear in mind that the naming of slinging styles is hardly an exact science and th same style may often have several different names. Even what constitutes the essential features of any given style varies considerably. Do a search on Fig.8 to see how much controversy that particularly popular style has generated.

For accuracy,the Greek throw works best for me also.The other throw the lads are calling Byzantine,I liken to a baseball pitched,and for me is second to none for power at short range.

Yeah,I caught it in the thread you posted it in.Somehow I ended up watching videos of tornadoes...