I should have learned from last year. I never have any time to post stuff up while the comp is happening. Anyway, I am now back in Finland, tired but oh so happy and some new leads to chase up for a possible Team Finland for 2022. Let's see how it goes but I'm more determined than ever to actually get off my arse and get people slinging together.
Anyway! Lot's of video to come soon including a short documentary film coming out next year (sometime around Spring) made by Andre and Chika from the UK. They came along not knowing anything about slinging and not realising quite how passionate and dedicated we are and we managed to get Chika (who is the presenter) to compete. He went from ZERO slinging experience to scoring I believe 2 hits on the board in the stone throwing and I believe similar for tennis balls. Note: We arrived somewhat late for the stone throwing so Chika had one practice throw (first time ever using stones) then went on to do his 2 rounds of 5 stones. And he hit the board. Incredibly impressive. Andre was busy filming but he did, on the last day try cracking a sling like a whip and got it! Both great guys and it really felt they understood us and were great to hang out with. They both left with slings and both saying they want to get some practice in and are coming next year!
Ok, onto scores. The actual numbers will come up soon I guess. It always takes a while, but I'll get them up here eventually. One thing that was a shame is that the last day was very rainy so we didn't get a second chance to use stones. Instead we did 4 rounds of tennis balls in an indoor hall. In some ways, this was good because we had more time to stay in one place and really hang out together.
Myself: I got some hits on the board and 1 or 2 dianas. I feel last year I did slightly better, but then I was using a sling from Channing and a sling from Uwe for the first time so I'm overall ok with how I did, particularly because I have done very little, if any real practice this year.
Christian (funditor) from Austria: He won I think third place in the Men's and just generally was absolutely on fire for a lot of the competition. You'll see in the videos, he was doing damn well this year.
Uwe (hubert): What can I say? Channing said it best when he dubbed him the Sling King. He won first place and, at least to me, was rarely missing the target at all. If it wasn't a diana, it was surely a hit on the board. Amazing to watch him sling and I got one of his amazing slings (lucky too because it was the last one he had to sell). Beautiful to use.
Channing (Practical Paracord): He took the Balearic slinging world by storm! He's sure to have lots of videos up soon and I have some great footage to come as well. He won 2 third places and a second for the overall Men's! He sold all the slings he brought with him and the whole competition was buzzing about the American with the paracord slings. Getting to meet him in person was fantastic and to see him so buzzed was infectious. Louisiana... I might have to save up but I definitely need to get over there.
The Austrian women's team once again stormed the competition and Myriam particularly did well. You'll see when the numbers come out
I could keep going as there are so many fantastic slingers out there and all over, but I'll let the numbers do the talking later.
For only a few days that seemed to pass so quickly, it was packed full of great memories and experiences and has reignited the love of slinging for me. I have made excuses and put things off, but now I'm super charged to really get slinging out there especially in my own backyard as they say. Here's to next year!
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