Learn how to Fast Load to Sling more per unit time

The most tedious thing about slinging is loading the pocket. If you've ever been annoyed by hold your sling really high and trying to gingerly balance the projectile in the pocket while it's pendulum-ing back and forth only to have the projectile fall out before you sling... then you need to learn the fast load. The fast load, as demonstrated below keeps you in control of the sling the entire time. First, holding the pocket with your free hand, you load the pocket with your slinging hand. Second thread your slinging hand so that when you slide your hand down the stays the handle and trigger will fall into their proper place in your hand. At this point you're ready to go.

1. Load the Pocket

2. Thread the Stays

3. Slide into the Handle and the Trigger

4. The Result

Slinging in the Himalayas

One of the things that slingmoore slings do best is loading fast. When I was still experimenting with woven slings and different stay/trigger designs it used to take me half a minute to get the sling loop on my finger and load the ball, and balance the blah blah blah. But these days I use the fast-load.  I slap the rock into the pocket, thread my fingers and run them down to the stays to the handle and trigger. You can sling a whole lot more per unit time if you can load fast.  So it boils down to...(you'll just have to forgive me for this one)...The only way to get better at slinging is to sling... moore.  Load fast and sling away.

Slinging Slingmoore Style: Episode 1 Tightening the Stays

Everyone slings in their own way.  But here's a brief tutorial on how I do it.  I start by doing a fast load which I'll explain elsewhere.  Then I pull the stays tight and untwisted holding the projectile in the pocket with a my left thumb.  My right hand is gripping the handle and trigger with the trigger thumb pointed down.