The Slingshot Man

By Saturday January 17, 2009

Found by Art Snyder.



29 Comments
  1. Mister Mustard says:
    1/17/2009 at 10:36 pm

    #20 – Boobo

    Just as I suspected. Of the first water.

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  2. bobbo says:
    1/17/2009 at 10:45 pm

    #21–Musty==YOU did bring it up. As modest as I am, I would have never broached it otherwise.

    Anybody up for a game of 301?

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  3. Mister Mustard says:
    1/17/2009 at 11:16 pm

    #21 – Boobo

    >>YOU did bring it up.

    What? Your poo-pooing of Sully’s heroic landing of the plane? Or your sniggering at the Slingshot Guy’s miraculous accuracy?

    There isn’t a level of expertise anyone can attain in any endeavor that Boobo can’t exceed. By the time he’s 10. With one hand tied behind his back.

    As I said: Of the first water.

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  4. bobbo says:
    1/17/2009 at 11:30 pm

    Silly Mustard==you don’t reach the Olympic Qualifications in ARCHERY with one hand tied behind your back. I’m talking bows and arrows–what are you thinking of? My sister did the same thing in Free Form Floor Ex–or maybe the 4 inch balance beam, I forget and never cared.

    Hmmm, lets see. I am enamored of music but my only expertise is turning on the radio.

    How bout you Musty? Anything?

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  5. Greg Allen says:
    1/18/2009 at 10:54 am

    >> Dave said,
    >> Makes me almost cry over the loss of my trusty old Wrist-Rocket slingshot I had as a kid.

    I had one of those too and always could get A LOT more accuracy with it than with the standard Y-shaped one.

    But clearly, this guys shows that technique is more important than equipment.

    My guess is that he’s so accurate because he has perfected sending the stone in a perfect laser-beam path in the direction of his arm. So his whole arm works something like a rifle barrel.

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  6. Greg Allen says:
    1/18/2009 at 11:00 am

    I watched the video again and changed my mind about using his arm to aim it. Instead, it looks more like he points with the straight line of the stretched rubber and then perfectly (but intuitively) calculates the trajectory.

    Wow. I’ll bet he would have been great at a number of sports but skeet shooting comes to mind. A superstar in that sport, I imagine. Golfing, maybe, too.

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  7. Rich says:
    1/18/2009 at 12:27 pm

    Look at that old Pepsi can. I would guess the video is from the 80′s or early 90′s?

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  8. Rick Cain says:
    1/19/2009 at 10:34 pm

    Now the TSA just added something to their ban list.

    Oh well I have it on good authority that Al Qaeda has very poor slingshot skills.

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  9. Networkedd says:
    1/20/2009 at 9:07 am

    Whats with the crazy dog at 3:57!?!?!?

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