Mersa has it.  It will be heading to the UK after he's done.

WHAAAAAAAAT!?!?!?

That's three repairs on a sling that shouldn't have needed any.  No joke guys.  I think CA is messing with us from wherever he is.

Or maybe Mersa just throws too bloody hard. 

NooneOfConsequence wrote on Apr 10^th, 2024 at 3:41pm:


Way cool!

Awesome stuff buddy!  I love it!
It's so cool to see all the different things everyone is doing.


One thing though, Zud is up next.  If AA is joining this thing (which he should), he hasn't said anything yet.  We need him, JudoP, and Morningstar to get in on this.

Oops it’s already in the mail to AA . Well he’s joining in now

Rapidly coming up on the  2nd anniversary of CAs death.

Bows head for a moment.

Thanks Joe for stepping up.

Is there any appetite for uk Slingers to meet up ?

I am about 40 minutes drive from where Alex lived.....

South of Derby, as Alex said,  in the centre of the triangle of the 3 places claiming to be the centre point of England !

David posted the video of Alex slinging on the fields nearby in the memorium thread.

Alex took me there and gave me some pointers on sling technique.

If people want to meet up I think that is the ideal location.
For non drivers I have a 7 seater and am happy to pick up from stations nearby.

Thoughts or questions ?

Cheers.
😁👍

xud9a - call me zud 👍 wrote on Nov 14^th, 2024 at 4:54pm:

This would be awesome!  Make it happen guys!


xud9a - call me zud 👍 wrote on Nov 14^th, 2024 at 5:09pm:

I'm certainly open to other options.  The sling getting returned to me was more-so intended as a 'keeping track of it' device.  Until we have some old member who hasn't logged in for an eternity stop back, and they want to have a go with it. 

I'm not much for the burying idea.  I understand the notion, and think it's a nice tribute.  But if it was me, I would want that sling to keep getting pulled out once in a while.  I still have hopes that the list of people who have used it will be twice as long or more before we're done.  Who knows, maybe I'll take it to the Slinging World Cup next year (assuming I make it) and get recordings of a whole bunch of guys using it!  Hopefully its journey has a long was to go yet.

I think giving it to the family is a good idea.  I don't have any point of contact though.  So we would need someone who does who could coordinate things.  That doesn't need to be figured out right now though.  I do know of at least one more stop it'll be making.  Channing said he would do a video with it.  So there's one more stop for definite after the UK tour.  We can figure out what's next after that.

xud9a - call me zud 👍 wrote on Nov 22^nd, 2024 at 6:03am:


Hi Zud,

It would be cool to have a meetup. We aren't too far off both being midlands area. I can drive to the location you have specified where Alex has done slinging, sounds a good place.

Off the top of my head there's also David Morningstar (Manchester way), AA (South West) and maybe a few others on this forum- if you are also a UK slinger feel free to chip in and join for a meetup!