Now, it's my turn to reach for fame : I'm claiming rights for nothing short of 8 merits awards.

In the Slinging category, I will settle with only one.
I am Proficient with the Fig. 8, which qualify me to be level 1 in Techniques.
I will wait for an example of review before trying to claim level 3 ^^


In the Crafting category, I claim three awards.

I'm a Sling crafter of level 3.
My slings are a knitted one that I use at every slinging session, one braided from loose flax fibers with a 3 strands pouch, good for oval ammo, a seat-belt with paracord, not really what I like but quite easy to do and so OK as gifts, a leather pouch with braided linen cords that work as well as an Aussie Pouch and a braided hemp with linen woven pouch which is too stiff for my liking.




I also teach several persons how to make Appu slings and I translated the knitting instruction into french.

I'm also an Ammo crafter of level 2.
I made ammunition from clay freshly dug up (lvl 1) and rusty balls (lvl 2). Since the laters tend to dislike violent contact with walls (see the pink one), I made them covers (here, I used Naalbinding but I also used crochet).


Fun fact : I was technically level 2 before being level 1...

I am also a Miscellaneous crafter of level 2.
I've build  an easily portable target, consisting of a PVC tripod and a 50cm hoop on which I sewn enough fabric to be able to use it as a bag to transport slings and ammo and more importantly to make it easier to check the score : if your ammo is in the bag, you get the point, else you can go fetch it ^^. The second picture is from 15m... Not so big, eh ?



I also made a leather ammo bag, correct for up to 5 clay shots.


Next time, I will claim the tool crafter... I have to take pictures.


In the Promoting category, I take four awards.

I am an Activist of level 1.
During 2 days, in May 2012, I talked about slings and slinging at the ELFIC, a convention about games, “medieval” times a,d Fantasy worlds.
I also participated as a sling expert to another manifestation but it was not a major one.
On the other hand, I also created a sport club, does it count toward a level up ?

I am Exemplar. To a level 2, due to a lack of videos (I will have to take counter-measures... I could be level 4 ^^ ). You can guess that I talked about slinging to more that 15 non Artists during the 2 days of the Activist award , I hadn't even time to take pictures .

You can also say that I'm an Exhorter of level 2. and I won't ever gain any level here since I'm in a country where people usually don't try to speak English and so don't have access to Slinging.org. (Is the difference between the number of people spoken and given the adress a typo ?)

And Last but not least, I'm a Teacher. Of level 2 even.
I have a slinging club. We had several training session on a public park and in my “slinging 101” course, I try to cover ~ 9 of the listed subjects. Of course, I also give this crash course to passerby ^^.
I will have to try to plan out some of those Formal classes, it can give a nice change


And I therefore am qualified as a TIRO. And I will complain about the historian award later ^^

Edited:

LightSlinger wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2013 at 2:50am:

In the rules, you state "Level 2: Become Proficient with two Techniques / Review your second technique in a post". But what do you need as a review ? An explanation of how we sling ? a 500 lines essay on the pros and cons of technique ?
In any case, I may start taking videos, it will be easier since even in french I have problems explaining in a nice way how to work with this or this technique ^^


Quote:

The text for lvl 2 exhorter state " Talk about Slinging in general to at least 15 people.  /  Give these 10 people direction "
while the one for lvl 1 says "Talk about Slinging in general to at least 5 people.  /  Give these 5 people direction"
If I'm not grammatically wrong, the lvl 2 text imply that you need to tell the 15 people about slinging.org... but my english grammar lessons are quite far already ^^

And I add another question :
To go all the way to funditor, do I already met the "Achieve 2 additional Merit Award Levels in any Category." obligation or do I have to add to the ones I already checked in ?

I will try to reach my first Research award : Historian lvl 1 ^^ (within current rules)

I believe this video tutorial has not yet been posted here :
How to tie a simple 2 strands sling using only one knot. It dates from last year, so within the last 100 years

I do not link this second one for politics :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54Lj8j7o6gY
But you can still see young men slinging, with long slings and poor form in a serious situation, not really for fun.

Is this really enough ? If so, I level up to Funditor but it's mainly to test the limits of this peculiar award