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I've been really working on slowing down the pace. Now if I could just get my son and son-in-law to do the same. You'd think they would get tired of the welts.
- Mark Elliott
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- Robert Gage
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Mark, perhaps one way forward is to go for a long run just before whip-cracking! Anything to tire him out! :
- Jessie Edwards
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April Choi and Kevin Daniels teach by first introducing technique by handing the students gymnastic ribbons. You can see the flow of the crack and there is no noise to try to achieve. You can get them at the dollar store 
. I buy them for the kids to play "whip crack" with when the grownups are playing. They are super cheap and super useful.
If you fall, I'll be there.
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~Floor
- Robert Gage
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Jessie, that's a splendid idea!
- Scott A. Cary
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That is a great idea Jessie. Coincidentally, my son just made one of those in his art class at school. Apparently, the kids were given free use of any and all supplies and that is what he came with (and for exactly the same purpose as you described). Who knows, maybe he'll even join here one day.
Yeah, that's awful close, but that's not why I'm so hard done by...
- Jessie Edwards
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Yeah!
If you fall, I'll be there.
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- Ben Varsek
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Jessie, those are fantastic ideas about using a headphone and gymanstic ribbons as practicing tools - thank you very much for sharing!
All the best
Ben
- Russell Jones
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Hi everyone. It's been almost 10 days but I have not had much time or good weather to practice volleys with a whip, Much less produce a video.
Results are similar to the other day. I can kind of do it but it's not pretty or consistent. As such I will be adding this to the list of things I need to keep practicing.
I hope you all are having favorable results yourselves
In vino veritas
- Ron May
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It will get better the more you do it.
I have pot load of those on my list.
Ron
I sent that 'Ancestry' site some information on my family tree.
They sent me back a pack of seeds and suggested that I just start over.
They sent me back a pack of seeds and suggested that I just start over.
- Russell Jones
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Me too Ron 
Good luck mate
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- Russell Jones
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here's a quick video of me attempting a volley this evening.
It's not a technique that is coming naturally to me and i'll be practicing this one more often.
https://youtu.be/vYu3_KAhXNw
In vino veritas
- Ron May
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Russel, that's looking like progress to me.
A longer whip is also a lot harder to do volleys with too.
Nice job.
Ron
I sent that 'Ancestry' site some information on my family tree.
They sent me back a pack of seeds and suggested that I just start over.
They sent me back a pack of seeds and suggested that I just start over.
- Robert Gage
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Russell, Ron's right: it does look like progress. (And I agree that longer whips are harder for volleys....)