"Balearic slingers" Topic
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| Warspite1 | 05 Aug 2022 6:44 a.m. PST |
How to use one and footage of present-day Balearic slingers in action. YouTube link Barry |
| Warspite1 | 06 Aug 2022 2:44 a.m. PST |
And, as a follow-up, the staff sling: YouTube link And more here on the basic sling from Tod's Workshop. YouTube link He puts a sling bullet through a sheet of chipboard in the opening shots. Comments? Barry |
 Herkybird  | 07 Aug 2022 6:18 a.m. PST |
One is reminded of the possibly spurious story that Balearic slingers were 'motivated' as children by being denied food unless they could hit it(?) with a slingshot. I am less convinced that the slingers shown are definitely using the same techniques as slingers over 2 millennia ago… |
| Warspite1 | 07 Aug 2022 12:34 p.m. PST |
It would depend on which technique they are using.
There is more than one way to skin a cat and, I am sure (from trying myself), more than one way to sling a stone. Barry |
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