It´s good when it´s allowed to use the sling you have. Then it´s not needed to make a new one just for this "competition".

By the way, maybe a moderator could split this thread and create a new one for this competition thoughts.

Hondero wrote on Nov 27^th, 2011 at 6:36am:


Hondero, looks like at least and at most two guys and a one girl are thinking on the matter

Your proposition make sense to me. I am ready to accept almost all you proposed in your last post but I would to negotiate about ammo I would like to add to your ammo list Jaegoor's "rustyballs". I had an occasion to keep in my hands one of them and have to say that they imitate stones quite well. They are pretty dense and surprisingly hard. I am voting for them because I have no good safe place near home to practice accuracy with stones, clay or cement balls. I think more people have the same. The "rustyballs could be slung safely against a wall end recovered easy. I am still going to make a few.

Anyway it would be nice to hear opinions other slingers there. Also maybe Masiakasaurus would be nice to change the name of this topic into "Virtual Accuracy Presentations" or something more informative?

Sorry. I suggested Masi to split and take this out of the other thread. It was one of My suggestions of a name for this thread.

Hondero: you stands at the first post, maybe you can change the name of the thread if you want.

Contest ?

Or is that only about music?

Virtual slinging contest ?

VSC

I also like challenge.

Well, we have three different proposals  . I´ll take one word from each and provisionally change the current name to "virtual accuracy contest". We can modify it later when having more opinions.

Yurek wrote on Nov 27^th, 2011 at 1:40pm:



I´ve had a look at the Jaegoor´s  rusty balls, and since they are made of sand, they can be considered like a disintegrated stone within a balloon  . I understand what you say of the difficulty for many to train in the fields and the convenience of using therefore safe projectiles in city areas. When I train in a handball court I use a solution similar to Jaegoor´s one. I envelop a stone in several layers of cloth, compress them with adhesive tape and put it within two or three balooms. The projectile does not spoil the wall and it does not bounce either, although the impact makes an exciting sound like a “pelota vasca” (Basque handball).  When throwing it the feel is like of a stone. Rusty ball has the advantage of become deformed and perhaps it makes a little less damage if it hit a person, but have the disadvantage that when you throw strongly perhaps it deform also a little in the pouch when shooting, affecting the consistency. Well, if there is consensus I think that both safe projectiles could be allowed in the contest, and that we would not betray too much the legend of the sling.

Jaegoor, the projectile deformation when throwed must happen although it can be small. Consider that all the energy with which the projectile hits the target is given by the pouch at the moment of the shooting in a fraction of second, and as the projectile is not rigid must become deformed a little in the pouch. It is just like if you press strong a moment the projectile within the hand, that necessarily become deformed. Naturally this is impossible to see unless we record the projectile flight with a high speed camera; then we would see it a little deformed. But I don´t think this effect is too much detrimental  .