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walter Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2453	Re: Move back 10 feet challenge Reply #15 - Apr 8^th, 2020 at 3:06pm @ joe_meadmaker Its great all round practice. Shooting from dif elevations, kneeling on one knee and sitting
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Kick past-moderator Offline Posts: 4484 Finland	Re: Move back 10 feet challenge Reply #16 - Apr 8^th, 2020 at 5:12pm I do the same. Always standing in the same spot gets boring and changing it up I've found can help accuracy.
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Kick past-moderator Offline Posts: 4484 Finland	Re: Move back 10 feet challenge Reply #17 - Apr 8^th, 2020 at 5:14pm Oh yeah and the video is taking a while. Work keeps getting in the way.
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Kick past-moderator Offline Posts: 4484 Finland	Re: Move back 10 feet challenge Reply #18 - Apr 9^th, 2020 at 3:09pm https://youtu.be/pby-1C5Xpio Ok got it done! I need to do a Part 2, but this wasn't too bad an attempt I think.
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Sarosh Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Posts: 1229	Re: Move back 10 feet challenge Reply #19 - Apr 9^th, 2020 at 3:53pm woah! 10ft is 3m not 10m kick you did roughly 30-60-90ft good shooting.
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Reply #20 - Apr 9^th, 2020 at 4:16pm

Wait. Hold on. I'm terrible at numbers (I actually have a learning disability with numbers, dyscalculia) so I often mess stuff like this up. To be completely precise, I took 10 steps from the target, then 10 steps from there, then 10 steps from there. Wouldn't I have done 10ft, 20ft and 30ft (I guess paces is more accurate as I wasn't measuring precisely) so 3m, 6m and 9m? Have I done this completely wrong?

Curse you maths!

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Kick past-moderator Offline Posts: 4484 Finland	Re: Move back 10 feet challenge Reply #21 - Apr 9^th, 2020 at 4:20pm Ok yes I completely screwed up All the times I say meters I mean paces/feet. It's super late over here so this will have to be edited in the morning. OOPS. MY BAD.
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Kick past-moderator Offline Posts: 4484 Finland	Re: Move back 10 feet challenge Reply #22 - Apr 9^th, 2020 at 4:27pm Ok so I blame the Imperial measurement system and my own incompetence.
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joe_meadmaker Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Ice is Cool! Posts: 3925 PA, USA	Re: Move back 10 feet challenge Reply #23 - Apr 9^th, 2020 at 5:42pm Darn! I missed it before you took it down. I will calmly wait for the updated version. Sounds like you did pretty well though. I know on this forum we're located all over the place (which is extremely cool). I always try to include imperial and metric for measurements.
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Kick past-moderator Offline Posts: 4484 Finland	Re: Move back 10 feet challenge Reply #24 - Apr 10^th, 2020 at 1:50am Somehow I've been thinking for who knows how long, that 1 foot and 1 metre are almost equivalent. How did I come to think that? New video up soon.
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Kick past-moderator Offline Posts: 4484 Finland	Re: Move back 10 feet challenge Reply #25 - Apr 10^th, 2020 at 2:39am RIGHT. HERE is the video, corrected and improved actually. I found a few things that I missed before so it's a better video overall now. https://youtu.be/Ea6XfNhMUE0
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Reply #26 - Apr 10^th, 2020 at 4:18am

if you want to be more accurate in distance measuring use a measuring tape or a string with knots or a length of pre-measured string e.g. 10ft string.
paces are not equal to feet ( my step is ~0.5m and my double step 1.1-1.4m depending on terrain and speed)

@joe there is a mistake on your 1st post on 10ft, maybe that caused the confusion.

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Kick past-moderator Offline Posts: 4484 Finland	Re: Move back 10 feet challenge Reply #27 - Apr 10^th, 2020 at 4:30am The confusion was mine I'll take out a tape measure next time.
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joe_meadmaker Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Ice is Cool! Posts: 3925 PA, USA	Re: Move back 10 feet challenge Reply #28 - Apr 10^th, 2020 at 8:03am Sarosh wrote on Apr 10^th, 2020 at 4:18am: @joe there is a mistake on your 1st post on 10ft, maybe that caused the confusion. Oh wow! It's been corrected in case someone else reads though that for the first time. Thanks!
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Reply #29 - Apr 10^th, 2020 at 8:26am

Nice slinging Kick! Awesome to see someone else give this a try. I'm hoping to get out and complete my challenge on Sunday. One difference we have is that my target is a little bit bigger. That pallet I've been throwing at (for a while now) is about 2 ft (61 cm) by 2.5 ft (76 cm).

I'm curious what changed in the video from your first posting. The first distance that pops up still says "10 feet (3.05 metres)".

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