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my first sling expirience... and a question
Oct 2nd, 2008 at 6:29pm
 
When I was a young boy a played David at my local church. I was greatly congratulated but the proyectile that hit goliath was made of nothing. It was just my swing and the tall man toching his forehead and falling down.
later I took my sling made of tennis shoes cord with the midle part cut to hold the rock. that part that goes on top of the feet held the rock with a shoe cord in one side and another in the other side. I swung the real rock three times for momentum having no instructor and let go of the one cord that is meant to release. The rock flew backwards. Taking precautions no one was hurt.
Some time later a car window was broken by another wanabe david. We had very good times when we switch our practices to an empty lot. Practices  endede when a building was built in the lot.
Question.... Anywhere I can order a true replica of the David sling?
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Reply #1 - Oct 2nd, 2008 at 6:31pm
 
forgot to mention the we did master quit good the tenis shoes cord slings.
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Reply #2 - Oct 2nd, 2008 at 6:47pm
 
Hi Doc!  Welcome to our little corner of Paradise!  I would venture that there is no such thing as a "true replica" of David's sling.  Read a number of the articles under Project Goliath.  However.  If you web search on "shepherds sling" you will find a couple of outfits that are importing "genuine made by Bedouin's near Bethany" slings.  Or you can follow some of the braided or woven DIY instructions here and make your own for a couple bucks.
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Reply #3 - Oct 2nd, 2008 at 9:54pm
 
Thank you very much.
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Re: my first sling expirience... and a question
Reply #4 - Oct 3rd, 2008 at 2:35am
 
Purely speculative, but I would go with a braided or woven sling looking something like this:

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Start with a paracord sling like this:

http://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1172017416/324#324

Get some experience with that then move one to something more traditional.
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