Mick wrote on Apr 17^th, 2013 at 2:04am:



agreed. 

   I ran out of room on the post where I put the bulk of the rules.  I wish there was a way to attach a word document on the board, but there isn't.  I can attach a .txt file but that would have no pretty formatting at all.  I may have to post in on my personal Sport Slinging website and then link to it.  I could also start a new thread I suppose and just make two simultaneous posts that have ALL the rules.  Maybe I'll do that.

LightSlinger wrote on Apr 17^th, 2013 at 3:00am:

Convert it to HTML... I can do that using Dreamweaver if you want me to. Then host it on a website.
I can also do that.

I like the direction this is going.  But... Man I want a game with a little more fire... with no more gear required than a sling a few balls and some ground to play on.  The sling is simple, the sport should be too, just make it like dodgeball and sling until everyone gets out.   Too many targets and rules and it'll never catch on.  Think of Ultimate frisbee... the genius of that game is that there's nothing to it but effort and skill.  A sling sport should be the same...  just a bunch of slingers who love slinging and don't mind getting popped because they get to pop people, and the only people getting any real popping done are the ones who have put some effort into their skill level and have been slinging for a while.  But it stills leaves rooms for beginners and people walking by that have never seen a sling.  Plus playing till everyone is out will make the games fast like speed chess and we'll basically more slinging in less time.  I mean we could play the game I'm describing here...right now... if we weren't all separated by hundreds of miles.

slingmoore wrote on Apr 20^th, 2013 at 11:07am:


I agree to a point. You can't conceivably have an eye knocked out of its socket or become concussed in a dodgeball game, which is why they can get away with jock shorts and tanktops. Safety should be held to a very high standard in any game involving slings. Cups mandatory (male and female, I wouldn't wish a groin hit from a sling on anyone), some form of joint protection, head protection, the whole nine.

There are multiple avenues for this game to develop, and as with any sport you can have different leagues playing slightly different versions of the core game: full contact, points-based, target-based, king of the hill, elimination, ricochets-count, etc. etc.

I have dozens of slings so I get a few friends together and we all go to the tennis court and play dodgeball in the caged tennis court. Loads of fun, especially since we don't have to go far to retrieve the balls

also what i'm thinking of for ammo is at home depot, they have this three inch thick foam, its made for padding under carpets but its very soft and pretty hefty so i think that it might work for some small foam balls for slingball, that might be a cool name for dodgeball and slings combined. 

the nerf footballs your talking about work very well. 

i had a friend that had one at his house during last summer so every time i was there we would do sling catch, and it doesn't fly super fast so it wont hurt to badly, and you can dodge it.