RhonanTennenbrook
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Slinging Rocks!
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Oh I have tried it a number of years ago. It's a lot of fun.
My first version was a large metal bolt tied to a length of rope. I got the hang of the elbow throw and threw the bolt at a brick wall. Bits of brick were flying off.
My second version was a tennis ball filled with sand, tied into a monkey's fist.
The only remotely appropriate rope I had was a terrible stretchy cotton rope that tightened around the ball and looked terrible. It also cut into my neck and arms. It got unpleasant quickly.
I could do the elbow throw (behind the back kinda thing), I could do the ones where you interrupt the swing with your knee or foot and get it to go up, I could do the one where you pass it between your legs, then over your foot and kick the ball up. I could do one or two of the complicated ones where you get tangled, but those were not as fun as the simple ones that really hit hard.
The biggest problem was that there were no good, comprehensive videos or guides with instructions with progressions. I would have loved like a series of a few videos with it getting progressively more advanced. I found like two or three good videos from some sort of summer camp on youtube and that was it.
The combination of bad rope and no progression guides got me to quit.
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