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WITD 101.67 First Whip Purchase10 viewsWhat whip or whips do I recommend for a beginner making their first whip purchase? Pretty simple, either a 3' dragontail or a 3' signal whip. Parachord is less expensive than kangaroo. A 3' single belly "budget" build kangaroo signal whip is adequate as a leather starter whip. A 4' signal whip should have two bellies to provide optimum performance.
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WITD 101.62 Whip Repair Kit31 viewsEvery whip thrower should carry a small case in their toybag with some whip essentials. A small mini fid, or dental pick for untying really tight knots in falls and crackers. Several sizes of small bandaids, small tube of triple antibiotic ointment, spare new crackers, a small knife or scissors. I carry snack sized zip lock bags and a sharpie to label each whip bottom's crackers. I never use the same cracker on two different whip bottoms.
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WITD 101.60 Homemade Dragontail14 viewsSourcing second hand leather, handle, materials needed to make your own dragontail. Total cost of the project is less than $25. How to lay out the pattern and finish the tail.
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WITD 101.57 Flogging Styles26 viewsFlogging styles evolve and everyone has some signature moves. Traditional hand holds lend themselves to styles that are mostly wrist or characterized by more arm motion. Finger style hand holds tend to associate more poi style related motions and patterns. Regardless of the style you end up with have fun flogging.
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WITD 101.55 Fan or Whirly Bird Style28 viewsThe fan or as I call it whirly bird style is fairly common as a flogging technique. It is not a technique I normally teach because the goal is to be able to apply techniques you use with all classes of dungeon whips. While whirly bird works with a flogger, if a singletail is thrown with this style it causes undue, excessive torquing forces internal to the bolster and bellies of the whip. I contend it will make a singletail break down quicker and become a wet noodle regardless of how good the initial construction was. Many throw this style of singletail and if it is thrown with a finger flogger style grip the internal stresses are less, but I still do not personally recommend it. There are few don'ts as everyone finds a different path to whip throwing. The whirly bird used to throw a singletail is a don't in my opinion.
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WITD 101.56 Singletail Grip with a Flogger20 viewsTraditionally a singletail is gripped by placing the heel knot in the palm of the hand forming a sort of ball and socket. Regardless of the singletail style or technique you are throwing or even the grip variation you are using this heel knot in the palm is commonly used. What if you place the heel knot of a flogger in the palm of your hand? What advantages and disadvantages are there in throwing a flogger with this grip?
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WITD 101.54 Different Flogging Styles32 viewsThere are many different styles that evolve when throwing floggers. Sometimes the design of the tail influences throwing style. A traditional handle style flogger lends itself to swinging with the whole arm or using more wrist as the flogger is thrown either in a figure 8 or rotated as a fan blade. Finger floggers lend themselves to more poi spinning style and are easier to throw florentine and different spinning patterns with than a handle flogger. The handle of a traditional flogger can be used to add leverage to a throw if it is grasped by the heel knot instead of being grasp at the balance point.
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WITD 101.53 Discretely Carrying Toys18 viewsFinding the perfect toybag is an adventure into itself. Often repurposing bags originally designed for a vanilla purpose are the most discrete way to carry toys. Guitar gig bags, arrow cases, even the toolbag from Home Depot. Some cases might cause undue and unwanted attention. So thoughtfully avoid those. A gun case might be perfect for carrying canes, but someone seeing you carrying it into a venue might mistakenly think you have an AR-15 in it. Learn to discretely carry your toys into a home, event or venue by carefully choosing your bag or carrying case.
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WITD 101.52 Different Flogger Hand Holds24 viewsThere are numerous ways to hold a flogger. The most energy efficient is to hold it on the handle balance point. But a flogger can be held by gripping the heel knot, using a finger point grip, using a thumb push grip, using a poi style or finger flogger style grip, using a reverse hand hold. No wrong or right way as long is it is fun and it works for you and doesn't affect your accuracy or skill with the flogger.
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WITD 101.52a Flogger Hand Holds20 viewsTraditionally floggers are held with a hand shake grip on the handle balance point of a well made balanced flogger. But there are many different holds and grips that can be used. Floggers are fun and every way to throw them adds a new dimension to impact play.
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WITD 101.51 Flogger Balance24 viewsRevisiting flogger balance. Demonstration of several well balanced floggers as compared to a flogger that is not balanced well both by the same flogger maker.
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WITD 101.49 How to Break In Your New Whip35 viewsSome do's and don'ts associated with breaking in a new whip. Ideally a well broken in whip is an extension of the whip thrower's arm and has a muscle memory of being thrown in a certain style by its owner. Short whips especially differentiate between throwers and throwing styles more so than a long whip.
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