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Kids are learning
Aug 17^th, 2009 at 3:39pm

Hi;
One of my younger friends from the neighborhood, Austin, just came over and showed me his new staff sling. It's a relatively short sling, maybe 3 1/2 feet, made from a fishing rod. He had a peacefuljeffrey sling on it and it looked very well done. The kids that are making their own slings around here are doing so with no help from me other than a bit of advice from time to time. Mostly they're coming here to slinging.org and learning how to make them. The way they're taking to it makes me think that slinging has a future.

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xxkid123 Past Moderator Offline Hallo, ich heiße kartoffel Posts: 4807 new to california Gender:	Re: Kids are learning Reply #1 - Aug 17^th, 2009 at 3:41pm course it will. and have you encouraged any of them to join the forum? slinger87, adsi, and i are probably feeling lonely in the world of teens and grownups you know...
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Rat Man Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 13836 New Jersey, USA Gender:	Re: Kids are learning Reply #2 - Aug 17^th, 2009 at 3:51pm I've suggested many times that they join. I think that some will eventually. Right now they seem satisfied to just lurk and learn. Maybe some will read this and join. I very much enjoy the contributions of our younger members and wish there were more.
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xxkid123 Past Moderator Offline Hallo, ich heiße kartoffel Posts: 4807 new to california Gender:	Re: Kids are learning Reply #3 - Aug 17^th, 2009 at 3:53pm well we have Germany here now, he's only 13 so I'll still count him as a pre-teen/ kid
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Rat Man Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 13836 New Jersey, USA Gender:	Re: Kids are learning Reply #4 - Aug 17^th, 2009 at 4:01pm I'll have to look for Germany's posts.
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Fundibularius Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Sultan of Sling Posts: 1385 Inter Mosam ac Rhenum Gender:	Re: Kids are learning Reply #5 - Aug 17^th, 2009 at 4:03pm Well done, Rat Man. It must be great to see your "slinging seed" grow.
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Rat Man Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 13836 New Jersey, USA Gender:	Re: Kids are learning Reply #6 - Aug 17^th, 2009 at 4:25pm Yes, quite, Fundibularius. I wish I'd started at that age.
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Gullinbursti Junior Member Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 75 Providence, Rhode Island - USA Gender:	Re: Kids are learning Reply #7 - Aug 18^th, 2009 at 9:05am Virtually everyone who has seen me slinging and expressed interest has received a handmade sling and instruction from me. Once people see me using it effectively they usually get pretty excited about slinging. I definitely think slinging has a future, it just needs a little promotion.
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Germany Tiro Offline medieval slinging is great!!! Posts: 40 Germany-NRW-Paderborn Gender:	Re: Kids are learning Reply #8 - Aug 18^th, 2009 at 9:11am When I sling with some of my friends they are all intrested in a own sling so sometimes i make one for a friend I think the people like slinging because it`s new
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Reply #9 - Aug 18^th, 2009 at 10:41am

all my friends look down at it. only 2 friends actually like it, though one friend only likes it for the swishy noise from my captain Paul... Grin

my parents aren't to happy about it, and my sister laughs scornfully at my "braiding" and tieing knots in string. i don't really care about my sister, becasue she probably would say it's uncivilized and stuff if she saw me actually slinging. i mean, if she was a pioneer she would be a mad "papoose" killing person. shes not violent, just a little bland and unmovable

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Germany Tiro Offline medieval slinging is great!!! Posts: 40 Germany-NRW-Paderborn Gender:	Re: Kids are learning Reply #10 - Aug 18^th, 2009 at 10:44am Very much people in germany like it because it is very new nobody knew this weapon before I show it
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Re: Kids are learning
Reply #11 - Aug 18^th, 2009 at 4:05pm

Yes, germany, maybe because we Germans do not seem to have had a great slinging tradition. But it's good to hear that people in your region have a positive attitude towards it.

Rat Man, if things keep on developing like this, you may have the opportunity to become the director/president/dean/guru/chairman of the first real Slinging Academy. Wink

What about that?

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von also vester hvte daz in nie wafen sit versneit.

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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: Kids are learning Reply #12 - Aug 18^th, 2009 at 6:11pm Quote: I think the people like slinging because it`s new so old it's new I guess this current generation grew up with video game weapons. Still good to see slinging being promoted
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Re: Kids are learning
Reply #13 - Aug 18^th, 2009 at 10:13pm

Rat Man wrote on Aug 17^th, 2009 at 3:39pm:

Hi;
One of my younger friends from the neighborhood, Austin, just came over and showed me his new staff sling. It's a relatively short sling, maybe 3 1/2 feet, made from a fishing rod. He had a peacefuljeffrey sling on it and it looked very well done. The kids that are making their own slings around here are doing so with no help from me other than a bit of advice from time to time. Mostly they're coming here to slinging.org and learning how to make them. The way they're taking to it makes me think that slinging has a future.

Wow! Cool! He made a PeacefulJeffrey sling?! I'm flattered! Besides, that's a kind of ambitious design--it's not the simplest kind one can pick, anyway.

I was at my ol' amphitheater on Sunday night with a friend who was walking her dog. I rode out to meet up with her. When I got there, she was socializing with a woman who had two dogs, herself. I took out my baseball sling and slung some baseballs and tennis balls, and when she saw the sling, she remarked that her son had recently made a sling (she didn't know the word for it until I gave it to her). She said the she/he had met someone down there who had given a steer toward online resources. I recall having done exactly that, so it must have been him or her I had seen some months ago at that very field. Apparently he went online and learned how to make a sling.

I have to wonder if he's on this board now. The mom's name is Andrea, and I think the son's name is Sam (but I'm not sure). Sam, are you watching here? If you want to work on slinging at some point down at the Meyer Amphitheater, send me a PM. I can meet up most days around noon, or on weekends. Never slung with another person before, really. Plus, I'm dying to see what kind of sling you've come up with! Cheesy

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Re: Kids are learning
Reply #14 - Aug 19^th, 2009 at 7:37am

Rat Man soon you will have your very own detatchment of slingers at your command. Wink

This weekend I am going slinging with some customers. They have all received slings from me in the past month (PJ 5 Cord) and now we are meeting up in the park to throw tennis balls.
The different levels of society that these guys come from amuse me on one end I have a doctor and an archeologist on the other a guy that owns a MMA Fighting Club and the gentleman I get my paracord from.

It should be good times and if not there is a kickball game following directly after that.

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