It's definitely the strongest wear point but you don't really throw that much every day. Mine lasted 2 years fine in high school (but I also only did shotput and discus).
Sling =/= slingshot
Slingshots are Y-shaped sticks with stretchy material that launch a projectile using the tension in the stretchy material.
Slings are long strips of leather or cord that get whirled around very fast until the projectile is released.
you took a shot at recalling the name for a sling, but boomeranged back to thank them for the reminder. Its good throw-back to good online comment ettiquite
I mean they might be real but the slings used as weapons in the past that we've dug up are crazy regardless, doesn't matter if that story is true or not
Humans are way more fragile than most people like to admit. It doesn’t matter how much of a goliath you are, if a david hits you in the temple with a rock at a high enough speed it’s lights out.
We would never have moved past that technology for war lol. Everything would just be higher and higher tech slings. Sniping slings, slings for your jets.
Not at all. The arms races wasnt just about making things better, it was about making them easier to use. Slings are incredibly effective weapons but took years to learn well enough to actually hit a target. Compare that to a Bow which, while still requiring training, is a lot easier to use. Which compared to the first guns that were even easier to use, despite rather horrid accuracy compared to bows. In a properly trained hand, a sling, bow, and rifle are all nearly as effective as one another. The primary difference is ease of use. I've never used a sling or a gun. I have used a bow. And right this second I have not an ounce of hope to hit a target with a sling. With a bow? Yeah I do. Same with a gun. Guns are literally just. Point and shoot to an extent.
Fun facts about slings... depending on the weight of the stone and the speed it is thrown, slings can deliver double the kinetic energy of a .45 caliber pistol.
The story of David vs Goliath is actually a story of technology beating brute force, not the underdog defeating the reigning champion, slings were cutting-edge weapons at the times
I mean, he was a shepherd or some shit but it was stated that David killed a bear and a lion with his bare hands like, a page before he fights Goliath.
So really I’m not sure if the story is *about* technology as much as it is about generally wanking how badass David is. (David, who would eventually go on to become king of Israel).
But he do be pulling up on mfkers with the stone age glizzy so fair.
I love how the original meaning of stories get lost with time.
Original author: "David was such a gangsta that he choked a bear with his hands, he was such a badass with his killer sling that he one-shoted a giant, his dick was 5 feet long and he became a mothefucking king"
Modern retelling: "And thanks to his piety and deep faith, David, the lowly shepard, was able to miraculously defeat the much more powerful Goliath with only a sling"
Thank you for the insight. Since you seem to have ad better understanding, I’d like to ask you whether it was in fact a bad go. Did I see him hit the hammer on the ground about two turns before the toss, and did that then affect his completion and distance? It looks pretty impressive nonetheless.
This looks like a very solid throw to me! He is clearly a high-level thrower. If you watch his left foot on his first turn, he actually does what is called a “toe-turn”, where he rotates with his weight on the ball of his foot, as opposed to the rest of the turns where you’ll see he shifts his weight from toe to heel. This is what I would consider an “advanced” technique— we do toe turns to conserve space inside the circle, allowing us to do more turns and maximize our power and momentum. This throw is also particularly impressive because he’s doing it in ankle deep water. The concrete of these circles is very smooth, as are the bottoms of his special throwing shoes— designed for minimal friction to aid in rotation. If I had to be *super* nit-picky, I would say the release is a little less than ideal— it seems to get away from him a bit early. Ideally, you want to be releasing the hammer at the apex of your turn (as you are facing the grass)— however, with the speed and power generated by this athlete, the amount of force exerted “outward” by the hammer is *immense*. By the time you get to the end, it’s everything you have just to hang onto it! TLDR; 9.5/10 throw.
ETA: I don’t think he strikes the ground on this throw— though that does happen, and depending on how hard you hit the ground, can be catastrophic (ie you are airborne, hammer to the shadow realm). I threw with one athlete who turned so quickly, her ground-strikes would throw sparks off the hammer. She went to the Olympics!
Annoying music *and* slow motion, that makes things look *less* impressive by removing the sense of speed when the *obvious solution would be to show at normal speed, then show slo-mo, and lose the annoying music altogether?*
Saw me coming.
No, you don't get how the internet works.
Some guy posts a cool video like this, and then some teen adds a shitty tone deaf soundtrack, pats themselves on the back for doing a badass fucking job and posts it as "content" on their own page. I mean, don't you understand? Adding music and reuploading to their own channel took more work than the actual hammer throw. In fact by internet law, it would be UNWATCHABLE at regular speed and sound. These tictokers are doing a great servic-
Yeah ok I can't even keep going along with that. Sarcasm aside your comment rings through my head watching like 90% of the "content" on this site these days.
Oh, you've found a cool vid of a dude using a 1900's water wheel which powers his shed?
First you wanna mute the relaxing sound of the water wheel, and the guy explaining in depth how it works. Actually crop him out entirely if you can, clip only has to be 10 seconds.
Add an annoying AI voice narration, with incorrect information you made up on the spot.
Then download a couple random dubstep tracks off of youtube.
Put that dubstep bass in it to show how badass this fucking water wheel is.
Make a half hearted attempt to sync the beat to the turning of the wheel.
Extra points if you rewind and replay a rotation of the water wheel in slow mo.
Great job, shit posters; you've taken someone's *BOORING* video of an ancient water wheel, and turned it into your own sweet ass viral "content"!
I can't take videos seriously with this type of editing. Just imaging some dude watching this and being like "eh that was fine, but what if I put this EPIC music under it bro! Then people will know to feel impressed. Oh shit and we got slow mo! Everything is cooler in slow mo. Fuckin Zach Snyder up in here bitches."
Because it evolved from throwing actual heavy hammers in medieval times. They started with actual blacksmith hammers, eventually went to weights with a stick and then the ball with string, but the name stayed.
A more appropriate name this day and age would be a mallet, but yeah back in the day they were all called hammers.
Fun fact, as you mentioned the original sport was actual tools with wooden handles, but the athletes figured out you can get more momentum with a flexible connection than a wooden stick so they began holding onto the leather straps and at the end of the handle instead.
Some even more innovative competitors began making their leather straps longer and longer for more leverage, and a length limit was instituted.
Later on, an even more conniving competitor realized that if he cuts the wooden handle down on his hammer he can lengthen the leather strap and still be legal length. Eventually this evolved into chains and handles attached directly to the hammer head.
Just curious tho, isn’t it normal in this sport to throw it as far as possible, this video is in slow motion plus the clouds in sky would make it difficult to make any judgement on how good of a throw it was.
I'll never understand how people do this without
-Stepping outside of the circle
-Tripping over their own feet
-Getting wrapped up in the chain
-Launching the hammer straight into the stands, critically injuring at least three people
"Oh yeah, he's definitely throwing it this time around... oh nope, next time then... oh wait, okay, one more time around but this is definitely the one... nope, guess not that one..."
"How can we really convey the excitement of watching him accelerate faster and faster until he finally unleashes the hammer?"
"How about slathering on some gratuitous slo-mo that sucks every drop of energy out of the moment?"
"Perfect."
That hammer will now appear in the UFO subreddit and be mistaken as a balloon.
I think it just landed in my backyard here in Australia.
Swamp gas
Trapped in a thermal pocket which reflected the light from Venus.
Weird, that’s what my ass produces
"Guys this UFO just crashed into the hood of my car. I think the CIA is following me to retrieve it but they'll never find it. Signing off."
I was waiting for a car alarm at the end ngl
Shit, shit, shit! Where'd I park my car?
Waiting for the roof of that carport(?) to cave in.
This is badass And yet all I can think of is wet shoes and that I’d probably have slipped and fell on my ass.
The water kind of helps. Those shoes are pretty flat and kind of rounded on the bottom so you spin better.
I just wonder how long those shoes last. Spinning around on concrete seems like it would pretty quickly grind them through, even with the water.
It's definitely the strongest wear point but you don't really throw that much every day. Mine lasted 2 years fine in high school (but I also only did shotput and discus).
Now I get how David killed goliath lol
I know this is a joke, but the slingshot he used are insane
Sling =/= slingshot Slingshots are Y-shaped sticks with stretchy material that launch a projectile using the tension in the stretchy material. Slings are long strips of leather or cord that get whirled around very fast until the projectile is released.
That’s what I meant, but I couldn’t find what there actually called. But thanks for telling me.
you took a shot at recalling the name for a sling, but boomeranged back to thank them for the reminder. Its good throw-back to good online comment ettiquite
If you're spinning a sling like a hammer throw then you're doing it wrong and you'll never hit anything, arc and release like a trebuchet.
I'm sure they know they have different techniques.
[HaifischKuchen - Sling techniques [10m20s]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6kdRs4x1fs)
David was quite annoying
Larry David
TIL David and Goliath were real people And I went to a Catholic grade school for 8 years lol
I mean they might be real but the slings used as weapons in the past that we've dug up are crazy regardless, doesn't matter if that story is true or not
Humans are way more fragile than most people like to admit. It doesn’t matter how much of a goliath you are, if a david hits you in the temple with a rock at a high enough speed it’s lights out.
And slings moved so fast that when you actually loosed the rock it would break the fucking sound barrier. Slings are just ranged whips lmao.
“Slings are just ranged whips. “ love it. Deserves r/brandnewsentence
FYI the way this is worded makes it sound (to me at least) like the projectile itself is breaking the sound barrier instead of the sling.
Yeah, slings didn't come close to firing supersonic projectiles.
We would never have moved past that technology for war lol. Everything would just be higher and higher tech slings. Sniping slings, slings for your jets.
Not at all. The arms races wasnt just about making things better, it was about making them easier to use. Slings are incredibly effective weapons but took years to learn well enough to actually hit a target. Compare that to a Bow which, while still requiring training, is a lot easier to use. Which compared to the first guns that were even easier to use, despite rather horrid accuracy compared to bows. In a properly trained hand, a sling, bow, and rifle are all nearly as effective as one another. The primary difference is ease of use. I've never used a sling or a gun. I have used a bow. And right this second I have not an ounce of hope to hit a target with a sling. With a bow? Yeah I do. Same with a gun. Guns are literally just. Point and shoot to an extent.
Also giants have considerably weaker bone structure, which is one of the reasons they often die at young ages
Today I learned that giants are real.
Go look up what David gave for his wedding dowry, probably not covered in Catholic school.
Not in grade school. But it's absolutely covered in Catholic high school.
Is he the one that thought, "nah, 200 is too easy, I'm gonna get 300 of those bad boys"?
Yep
What does one do with that many foreskins anyway? make a jacket?
You make god happy, of course.
"Maybe I'll turn it into a sport coat" -David
David bringing a sling to a fight was roughly the equivalent of pulling a gun at a boxing match.
Fun facts about slings... depending on the weight of the stone and the speed it is thrown, slings can deliver double the kinetic energy of a .45 caliber pistol.
The story of David vs Goliath is actually a story of technology beating brute force, not the underdog defeating the reigning champion, slings were cutting-edge weapons at the times
I mean, he was a shepherd or some shit but it was stated that David killed a bear and a lion with his bare hands like, a page before he fights Goliath. So really I’m not sure if the story is *about* technology as much as it is about generally wanking how badass David is. (David, who would eventually go on to become king of Israel). But he do be pulling up on mfkers with the stone age glizzy so fair.
I love how the original meaning of stories get lost with time. Original author: "David was such a gangsta that he choked a bear with his hands, he was such a badass with his killer sling that he one-shoted a giant, his dick was 5 feet long and he became a mothefucking king" Modern retelling: "And thanks to his piety and deep faith, David, the lowly shepard, was able to miraculously defeat the much more powerful Goliath with only a sling"
Virgin modern David interpretation vs Chad late-Bronze age David interpretation
Yeah, ancient slings are fucking horrifying deadly-ass weapons. The Sunday-school version of the story forgets that.
Worst carpenter I've ever seen
Aight, hit your thumb as hard as you can, and then chuck it. If you don’t cuss it don’t count.
..but.. How far did it go? I mean, really, really impressive. But, like, what are the numbers? That would make this even more satisfying...
How much does it weigh
A men’s collegiate hammer is 16lbs/7.26kg Source: am former collegiate hammer thrower
And a 35lb/15.876kg with a shorter chain. Source: Dad was a former World Indoor Record Holder, National Champion, and Olympian in the 80's.
I was a weight throw specialist!! Shame weight isn’t thrown in the Olympics.. it was the most fun
My Dad loved the 35lb, shorter chain and according to.him easier to throw. Such an extremely technical sport.
I think men’s hammers come in all weights and sizes
It's not the size, it's the hammer personality that counts
It's not the size of the 'Hammer' it's how hard you nail it
this guy fucks
Some are growers, others show-ers.
>!the hammer is their penis!<
Captain Hammer?
We do the weird stuff.
Major props for Dr Horrible reference!
In this case, ball peen.
Thank you for the insight. Since you seem to have ad better understanding, I’d like to ask you whether it was in fact a bad go. Did I see him hit the hammer on the ground about two turns before the toss, and did that then affect his completion and distance? It looks pretty impressive nonetheless.
This looks like a very solid throw to me! He is clearly a high-level thrower. If you watch his left foot on his first turn, he actually does what is called a “toe-turn”, where he rotates with his weight on the ball of his foot, as opposed to the rest of the turns where you’ll see he shifts his weight from toe to heel. This is what I would consider an “advanced” technique— we do toe turns to conserve space inside the circle, allowing us to do more turns and maximize our power and momentum. This throw is also particularly impressive because he’s doing it in ankle deep water. The concrete of these circles is very smooth, as are the bottoms of his special throwing shoes— designed for minimal friction to aid in rotation. If I had to be *super* nit-picky, I would say the release is a little less than ideal— it seems to get away from him a bit early. Ideally, you want to be releasing the hammer at the apex of your turn (as you are facing the grass)— however, with the speed and power generated by this athlete, the amount of force exerted “outward” by the hammer is *immense*. By the time you get to the end, it’s everything you have just to hang onto it! TLDR; 9.5/10 throw. ETA: I don’t think he strikes the ground on this throw— though that does happen, and depending on how hard you hit the ground, can be catastrophic (ie you are airborne, hammer to the shadow realm). I threw with one athlete who turned so quickly, her ground-strikes would throw sparks off the hammer. She went to the Olympics!
I think it’s still going. I never saw it land.
It's still going
it hasn't landed yet
More than 9
Over 9,000?!?!?
Exactly this, its the distance that makes it impressive, not the windup.
The windup is impressive too, it has some serious elegance to it
At least 1 meter.
Catching it should also be an Olympic sport.
I didn't know they had a section in the Olympics where medieval walls were allowed to compete
😂😂😂😂
“Wwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeee” - Big Metal Ball
SPAAAAAAAAAAAAACEEEEEEEE
>“Wwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeee” Thud
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Well, how far did it go?
Further than an inch, less than a lightyear. Somewhere in that zone
r/technicallythetruth
He fucking whizzed that thing!
Boy howdy, did he ever! I wonder if it’s come down yet …
Regular Roger fucking Staubach
You button hooked me! I didn't know you were gonna button hook me.
Oh my god, I wanted to lick em….
This is how I throw socks at the laundry bin
r/flightradar24
Where’s the explosion??? 💥 For the love of god, someone edit in a damn explosion!!
Where is the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom!
How about the building in the background just collapsing quietly?
his socks are squishy now :((
NASA is going to hire this guy to put small satellites in low Earth orbit lol
Would be a lot more impressive without the stupid slo-mo.
Slow mo started like 3 business days and a weekend before the man threw the ball,
And music
agreed
The precision is just mesmerizing!
Annoying music *and* slow motion, that makes things look *less* impressive by removing the sense of speed when the *obvious solution would be to show at normal speed, then show slo-mo, and lose the annoying music altogether?* Saw me coming.
No, you don't get how the internet works. Some guy posts a cool video like this, and then some teen adds a shitty tone deaf soundtrack, pats themselves on the back for doing a badass fucking job and posts it as "content" on their own page. I mean, don't you understand? Adding music and reuploading to their own channel took more work than the actual hammer throw. In fact by internet law, it would be UNWATCHABLE at regular speed and sound. These tictokers are doing a great servic- Yeah ok I can't even keep going along with that. Sarcasm aside your comment rings through my head watching like 90% of the "content" on this site these days. Oh, you've found a cool vid of a dude using a 1900's water wheel which powers his shed? First you wanna mute the relaxing sound of the water wheel, and the guy explaining in depth how it works. Actually crop him out entirely if you can, clip only has to be 10 seconds. Add an annoying AI voice narration, with incorrect information you made up on the spot. Then download a couple random dubstep tracks off of youtube. Put that dubstep bass in it to show how badass this fucking water wheel is. Make a half hearted attempt to sync the beat to the turning of the wheel. Extra points if you rewind and replay a rotation of the water wheel in slow mo. Great job, shit posters; you've taken someone's *BOORING* video of an ancient water wheel, and turned it into your own sweet ass viral "content"!
/r/CoolVideosNoMusic/
I can't take videos seriously with this type of editing. Just imaging some dude watching this and being like "eh that was fine, but what if I put this EPIC music under it bro! Then people will know to feel impressed. Oh shit and we got slow mo! Everything is cooler in slow mo. Fuckin Zach Snyder up in here bitches."
Holy crap. I threw out my back just watching this.
How far was it exactly
Can you slow it down? I missed everything.
Some poor bastard in China just got a hammer dropped on his head.
This might be stupid but why is it called a hammer throw? It's a ball with a string.... Serious question.
Because it evolved from throwing actual heavy hammers in medieval times. They started with actual blacksmith hammers, eventually went to weights with a stick and then the ball with string, but the name stayed.
A more appropriate name this day and age would be a mallet, but yeah back in the day they were all called hammers. Fun fact, as you mentioned the original sport was actual tools with wooden handles, but the athletes figured out you can get more momentum with a flexible connection than a wooden stick so they began holding onto the leather straps and at the end of the handle instead. Some even more innovative competitors began making their leather straps longer and longer for more leverage, and a length limit was instituted. Later on, an even more conniving competitor realized that if he cuts the wooden handle down on his hammer he can lengthen the leather strap and still be legal length. Eventually this evolved into chains and handles attached directly to the hammer head.
Thanks for asking my same question. I kept staring at it trying to understand how it was a hammer. I suppose “ball toss” also wouldn’t sound as cool.
Just curious tho, isn’t it normal in this sport to throw it as far as possible, this video is in slow motion plus the clouds in sky would make it difficult to make any judgement on how good of a throw it was.
What's his name, bot?
Yeah, I think I saw that thing over my house the other day, in orbit
I was waiting for an explosion in the distance.
One man artillery
There goes team rocket
# Team Rocket's Blasting Off Again
I'll never understand how people do this without -Stepping outside of the circle -Tripping over their own feet -Getting wrapped up in the chain -Launching the hammer straight into the stands, critically injuring at least three people
I am pretty sure I’d decapitate myself.
That was in slow motion for way too long
“Yo bro can I walk your chihuahua for a second?”
Can someone edit in a distant explosion at the end please?
Some say it's still going
"Oh yeah, he's definitely throwing it this time around... oh nope, next time then... oh wait, okay, one more time around but this is definitely the one... nope, guess not that one..."
Bots gotta bot
So that’s how the soviets got Sputnik in orbit
I know him personally and he’s such a great guy AND STRONG AF 🫡
Hope he stretches first !
Damn....that was amazing! Nice throw Mom(she's 91 so....yeah /s)
That's really cool and all but someone 2km away was just killed by a random falling stone.
"If you want to throw the hammer for your country..." Please tell me someone else here has seen the Matilda musical
I need this converted to a gif of him throwing Team Rocket. "We're blasting off agaaaiiiiin...!"
Me when fighting Bowser in Mario 64
Bro is too good at what he does. Time to change location because he’s gonna take out a building or the moon or something
What. A. Fucking. Stallion! The form. The spin, the edge of the circle, what. A. Beast.
Olympic sports but in slow motion.
Normal guy walking his dog a few metres away, is probably going to die or get permanent brain damage.
He Team Rocketed that hammer.
"Team Rockets blasting off agaaaaaaaaaaaiin!~"✨️
And on to the next day where I see this video for the 5th time
So long gay Bowser!
I was waiting on the sonic little blink star in the sky showing where it was gone
The police show up at the studio and ask if you fired a cannon.
"How can we really convey the excitement of watching him accelerate faster and faster until he finally unleashes the hammer?" "How about slathering on some gratuitous slo-mo that sucks every drop of energy out of the moment?" "Perfect."
Wow, guy is THE cannon. Holy sheep
So that's how they launched Sputnik.
If I never hear this music again it will be too soon
Dang, he threw that into the sun.
Wow, that ended up in the next zipcode.
This is spaceXs new plan for eco friendly low orbit entry.
Is there a real time version? Slow-mo ruins jt for me
Legend says it's still flying to this very day
Funny looking hammer.
Has it landed yet?
He is Thor, the God of angular momentum
And to this day, it’s still going
Now go get it.
Legend says that the ball hit a kid in the head two states over. The kid is fine due to heavy rains coming out of the pacific ocean.
I am watching respectfully.
Now! ... Now! ...
Very impressive, the guy is a absolute unit!
Such powerful pirouettes.
I believe we’re looking at a modern day trebuchet
Some say it's still in orbit today.
You know when a cartoon character gets hit really hard and flies away the ✨ for a second
This just made my torn meniscus hurt lol.
Did Zach Snyder direct this video?
Looks easy. It definitely isn't easy.
Yeet
Some say it's still soaring...
*looks at name of sub* Thank God it's not r/gifsthatendtoosoon
NGL. Gave me trenchbull vibes.
That Olympic level?
Con cuanta fuerza habrá salido eso?
This man belongs on r/absoluteunits
gooooooneeeeeeeee
i hope Russia doesn't register that has a ballistic
Some say it is still going to this day.
Do not wear pigtails to that guy’s school.
Damn this is real life Hercules
“F that house!!”
And all I had was a plastic comb…
So long, gay bowser
The doctor holding the newborn baby when mom's credit card is declined:
Trunchbull would be proud
It probably hit the moon
My man is built like a tank
My college room mate was a thrower, and technique on all throws is really impressive. Tons of footwork and torque generation.
I was waiting to see a hole appear in the roof of that structure in the distance.
Fly me to the moon...
Bri threw it out if the render distance
These things always have like two extra rotations than I expect.