Still a little timing issue but doing well. A heavier stone might sort out the timing, looks like your ammo is a little light for that sling .
Keep it up !!

Keep it up your very close and once you get the timing down power and accuracy will come naturally

For byzantine when should i execute the throw? Where should the sling be pointing on a clock face

Mersa wrote on Mar 16^th, 2021 at 11:43pm:


As you wish...

https://youtu.be/z-iYJJvYdmw

probably 8 o'clock or 7- ish (for a right-handed throw).  it depends on the cadence of the beginning of the wind up, the sling length, and if you have the sling taut up into the power-stroke.

Try this: The short sling, and 2 ounce stones, nothing bigger.

Set yourself up in a nice gentle helicopter, elbow back, hand up, wrist turning the sling, nothing more. Arm is relaxed, just holding up your hand. Your wrist is stirring coffee upside down, thats all it takes.

As the sling crosses from the right side to the left side, as it crosses the line between you and the target, start a count. The count is 'one, two, three, throw!'

During the count your hand only turns on your wrist, dont telegraph to the sling that you are going to do anything different.

On 'throw!',  drive your hand forwards. Not sideways, not in a spiral, do not make any account of the fact you have a sling in your hand or that there is any rotation happening at all. Straight forward.

Because of the timing you are using now it will feel like this is crazy early, like you are throwing nothing at all. Do it anyway.

Halfway through throwing nothing into empty space, the sling will suddenly go "what the £$*&"  and you will feel a bump or grab, a spike of centrifugal force behind you. Power through this, straight forward, follow through.

Do not wait for the sling's permission to throw. Do not wait for the weight to come behind your hand and give you something to throw. Do not move the way the sling wants to move.

Take the sling completely by surprise by throwing when it is blind, hand and sling should be like ships passing each other in the night. Rip the sling out of its comfortable circle and dont let it fight back.

When you get this right you will probably drag shots way to the left. Dont let your release pinch turn into a death grip. Half your maximum grip strength is plenty. Keep looking right at the target, dont reward bad shots with your attention. Only stones that fly towards the target are in your field of view. You aim will soon fix itself, dont try to 'think-fix' it.

If there was only one thing I think you should work on it’s rotating the sling with the wrist while holding your arm still. Once it’s second nature to keep the ammo in the pouch, you can more easily work on arm movements. You are using your entire forearm to spin the pouch most of the time in the videos.