Hi fellows! (first of all sorry for my bad english)

Has anyone ever tried to sling a waterbomb?
The idea came up to me and a good friend of mine in last summer, but it didn't went well, the bombs used to explode before we just slung it, i think this is because of the centrifual forces. we just tried with open pouches, perhaps a closed one could work?

the idea is to stand about 30 meters away (in the summer of course), slinging waterbombs at each other, who first moves loses 

does someone have a hint?


best regards from munich,

markus

If a water bomb is the same as a water baloon then yes I have tried it. In my expierience do to the centrifical force the baloon "morphs" out around the pouch. That was the result of the hand sling now after using the hand sling I used a staff sling (If you are not familiar with the staff sling look in the FAQ section in either General Discussion or Project Goliath - The History of the sling) this worked very well, I found that if you sling to hard however that the water baloons velocity will be too high and will break in flight but, with a moderte throw from a staff sling it worked quite well.

Oh, you stole me the idea for the next summer. I think i'll try anyway no waiting  the summer season.

Cthulhu wrote on Jan 17^th, 2011 at 2:48pm:


I used to do something like that for fun but, just with a bamboo staff and it was kind of like playing catch with a football just manlier    and we "usually" wore eye protection and didn't aim at the head on purpose, a hard wood stave would probably be a bad idea.

Take quite thick balloons and tape them crosswise with wide duct tape. But remember one thing: They're quite heavy and can have quite a velocity! If I remember right Jaegoor smashed a shield once with waterballoons and a staff sling...