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Tahitian slinging style.
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My slinging style is from some of the inhabitants of the oceania islands. It's tahitian in nature, atleast according to the book
Slings and Slingstones: The Forgotten Weapons of Oceania and the Americas.
Here's a link.
https://youtu.be/SjOcBXclZ18
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interesting, almost tibetan.
The behind the back starts are mainly for use with longer slings.
With a sling as short as yours, you'd probably be better off with a more conventional wind up.
Tibetan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGmnXHQxi0E
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Looks like a nice clean throw.
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Nice!
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I think Curious Aardvark is right. Because all the Tahitian slings I've seen on this site are 2 meters long.
But your throw is nice and clean. Your throwing style seems suitable for a powerfull short-range shot. Good.
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joe_meadmaker wrote
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Looks like a nice clean throw.
Thanks!
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Curious Aardvark wrote
on Aug 19
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interesting, almost tibetan.
The behind the back starts are mainly for use with longer slings.
With a sling as short as yours, you'd probably be better off with a more conventional wind up.
Tibetan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGmnXHQxi0E
I was reading that it was common for tahitians to use 1.5 to 2 meter slings, I will need to give it a shot!
Would u say longer slings generally give higher speeds for the same weight proje tiles? Say, 70 gram stone going 40 m/s out of a sling from chest to fingers, goes to 45 m/s out of a sling from opposite shoulder to fingers?
If so, is there a point where it stops increasing and becomes too large?
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Cool. Kind of reminds me of Greek in a way.
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Cool. Kind of reminds me of Greek in a way.
Yes I agree. It came more naturally to me because greek style was what I started using when I first started slinging.
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I've found that there is certainly a practical limit to how long a sling should be. My fastest throws are with ~1m long slings. Longer doesn't buy me much in terms of speed, but it does make throwing heavier projectiles the same speed easier.
I think the longest sling that is practical for a particular person will largely depend on their individual mechanics. At least when considering max velocity.
For distance potential, longer slings slinging a heavier projectile the same speed as a lighter projectile from a shorter sling has the advantage of a higher ballistic coefficient, or something that is less easily slowed by drag. As Dawesome pointed out to me earlier, a bowling ball starting out at 60 m/s will go much further than a 50g rock starting at 60 m/s.
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