I did my part.  The day sling becomes Olympic, I'll stop.  Olympia today is a swamp of corruption.  And yes the Balearic Islands are very forgiving.  But it is not welcome.  I don't think these styles make sense myself.  But we've chewed that through many times here.  I myself prefer to stick to Balearic rules.  I don't care whether someone else understands or likes it.  I don't have to sing internationally either.

Tolerance.  A nice word.  It is derived from tolare.  It means to endure.  I think it makes little sense to compare high jump with sling.  You are coming to a country with a long tradition.  Not just with a tradition.  Also a good and proven structure.  You come there and say ... We'll do that differently from now on.  Are you talking about tolerance?  Sorry, but that's a joke.  An April joke.  Have a big tournament in Australia and make your rules.  Everyone who comes will stick to it.  I would do this too.  If I go to Guam, the rules there would be binding for me.  So easy.  I call it acceptance.  Do not suffer.

I would like to visit you in Australia.  I would even shoot figure 8.  😂 I'm not only allowed to drink beer.

Jaegoor wrote on Apr 1^st, 2021 at 4:11am:


And the word "meaning" orginally also meant "the act of remembering".

Meanings change.

You have attacked me personally for disagreeing with you but I wont respond in like manner. Thats where we differ.

I'm confused. Maybe this is a translation issue/text on the internet not being the same as a conversation issue.

I don't think anyone here is saying we should go to the Balearics and tell them how they should be running their competitions. Maybe I'm wrong but I don't think anyone is suggesting that. Currently, the Balearic internationals, are the only competitions being held regularly with long standing established rules. Guam are starting up but, from my understanding, it's still early days. I don't know of any other slinging competitions that are anywhere near the same scale.

So, with that in mind, imagining that slinging does become an Olympic sport, standardized rules would have to be developed. I think some people are thinking that the Balearic rules would be the model to base them on, others, myself included, believe, that while the Balearic rules work well in the context of a competition run by Balearic slingers in the Balearic islands, a truly international Olympic level competition, would benefit from having different rules that more encompass the scope of worldwide slinging and also reflect the fact that Olympic level sports are very different from the sports they came from originally.

By allowing a wider choice in slinging style and sling construction (sling ammo I can see being one thing that standardization would be most beneficial and the most fair) innovation can be encouraged and new feats can be accomplished. I think the Fosby Flop is the perfect example of this. High jump was completely reinvented and the World Records completely transformed from one change. What could be achieved in slinging if we allow room to grow and encourage that with competition?

It is still possible to keep the old traditions and ways of doing things and also see slinging adapted. One thing I've learnt is that there is no one style or one sling that is perfect for everyone, partly because everyone is coming to slinging with a different goal in mind. We cover a lot of different interests: going for pure power, distance, accuracy, speed, historical recreation, personal fitness even. We don't all have the same goals. Plenty of people have absolutely no interest in competition anyway. So, in formulating rules for an international competition, it's not that those rules are dictating what slinging is and should be for everyone. They are simply there as a particular measure for a particular aspect of slinging at a particular event. I don't think having different rules for an Olympic competition will damage a Balearic competition in the same way World Cup football doesn't affect playing football with friends in the park. I don't use those examples to say that the Balearic competition is "less" than a hypothetical Olympic competition. They are two different things being held for different purposes. Again, that's the point. Slinging is very broad. For a weapon that can be made out of shoelaces, there can be no elitism.

Jaegoor wrote on Apr 1^st, 2021 at 6:44am:


Im glad to hear it. Im much easier to get along with outside of this forum. Im actually a very relaxed person, in real life. I rarely challenge people in their beliefs regardless how much I may disagree. Mostly because there is rarely a good enough reason to do so. Heres one back at you.