Slyngorm wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2020 at 12:48pm:


Second day of the contest using stones: 2 points, 0 dianas in two rounds (10 stones).
Third day with tennis balls: 4 points and a diana in one round (5 balls, no misses at all).

For the second day, I was using helicopter which I've practicing a lot recently particularly with stones.
For the third day, I was using Greek style that I haven't practiced a lot at all and barely ever with tennis balls.

*Shrugs*

Christian, throughout the competition, took a long time to go into his throw compared to a lot of the other competitors. He was doing fig 8 and would wait a few seconds before each shot with the pouch held out and then would still do really well and hit the target very consistently. It was crazy to see because I know if I paused for that long I would overthink it and flub it entirely. I asked him about it and he said he was actually counting a certain number of breathes before each throw which was really interesting. I might have to try that out, focusing on breathing not the throw. I know a few times I was really tense and it was when I relaxed I did well. There's a video of me getting a diana which was just after Jaegoor told me to relax It's certainly important to avoid tension.

TOMBELAINE wrote on Feb 27^th, 2020 at 11:37am:



Salut Tombelaine, ça m'intéresse ce que tu annonces là, tu peux mettre un lien vers la législation ? la dernière fois que j'ai regardé, nos frondes ne rentraient pas dans le cadre législatif des armes.

Peut-être n'ai-je pas tout bien compris ; et peut-être as-tu une lecture différente ? En tout cas, elle est la bienvenue.

The trick is WHAT you sling. Hard ammo is prohibited in public, but try slinging tennis or golf balls and you can say it's a sport.
How can we find the "mouth" of a sling, to calculate it's "energy at mouth" ? I'm pretty sure tennis balls are crappy ammo from a power stand point.

Edit : without ammo, a sling is a strap, a belt or whatever you want :p You can even use it as a coat hanger to free your hands


La pierre d'achoppement est le projectile. Tirer des balles en terre, du plomb ou des caillasses est interdit en public en effet. Merci de me l'apprendre, je tâcherai de ne pas me faire prendre la prochaine fois que je tente de remplir l'étang d'à côté.

Mais des balles de golf ou de tennis devraient passer non ? comment on trouve la bouche d'une fronde ? Pour calculer l'énergie à la bouche




Note : only bilingual people will be able to follow my way of thinking... good luck, i even lost myself, too late for me now :p

out of curiosity are there any golfers here?
what makes a golf club legal?

It's actually the same as a bow. I considered this when I was thinking of taking up archery. If you have a club you're on the way to, have your bow disassembled and packed away then you could well get away with walking straight through a town centre with one.