AncientCraftwork
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A light and very flexible sling does wonders for tennis balls ( and frankly, for stones too.) 2-3 mm in diameter round braided cords (you can find these in cotton if you want them natural), and a 2mm thin flexible leather aussie pouch, for example. I have given the traditional thicker and flatter slings so much experimentation because of the popularity, I really tried to understand why and thought of all kinds of reasons, after all, if so many use them, there had to be some reasons. But in the end they all end up in the basket of slings that I never use. I tried all kinds of 'inbuilt' design elements to so called help the performance of the sling, but they all get ditched in the end, and I return to the extremely light and flexible pocket slings I have. I notice a fast improvement in my power and accuracy when going back to these slings that lack any real hard stiffness in the cords and pouch. To give an example, these pouches are so pliable that, when held balanced on your extended pointy finger, they fold/fall around it vertically downwards by itself. The difference is like night and day between these and those that have stiffer pockets and heavy release lines. My prevailing preference for Greek and Figure 8 probably plays a role in this but so far even Balearic style seem to work well now with these thin and light slings when I don't use my wrist as much during the prerotation.
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