Whip Moves Thread!

For anyone who fancies a go at making themselves a bullwhip:
Nylon Bullwhip Tutorial

Also, not sure if it's been mentioned in here already, so I'll link it anyway - The British Whipcracking Convention.
It's in Wolverhampton this Saturday (5th July) and costs £15

OMG+++ i get back to the UK on saturday. yay.

pity ill be dead from the tour of europe and the fact that i dont even know where wolverhampton is.

anywhere near london?

Not really, it's just west of Birmingham, so probably 3 hours drive from London at least

Oi, Majesticky - You heading to Wales and/ or Play?

no and no. as i seem to be saying a lot of late, i'm in london next week then doing a 8 day tour around england scotland then back to uni in tassie i go.

just a quick family holiday.

Ooo if you are back in tassie for uni does that mean you will be heading to the circus fest again?

Very nice links and vids - I just bought my first two whips when I left Delhi. Certainly not the best in quality and they can't remotely compete with Simon Martin's whips (master whipmaker) but as for a starter I was happy to only invest a few bucks for them. I will keep you posted on how they perform and last...

Bov, in that tutorial, they use electrical tape to hold the belly together, surely that'd restict the whips movement? i'm no expert like, but aren't they usually plaited?

The electrical tape's there to help make the join between the handle pin and the belly a bit more secure, and also to give it a bit more springiness and help even out the taper when you drop strands out.
Leather whips have bolsters between the braided layers that do the same.

I've been following those directions (kind of - I'm making a stockwhip instead of a bullwhip) but I cut the core strands a bit longer and braided them together into a 4 strand braid until I dropped the first strand.
That was mainly because I thought it'd be easier than keeping them all lined up next to each other while I taped them up

We've got just over 2 full weeks until Play - I reckon you could have one braided by then

need to get hold of the paracord first!

Hey CrackinCaz, in response to your whip purchasing del-amour! UNDERSTOOD!!!
Just wanted to say - Angie Mooney's whips are defineately NOT toys and will NOT fall apart in 6 months. They are cow hide and crack really well. You can flog them to death, and not worry ie. crack on the surfaces you'd usually not want to crack with your roo hides for a lot longer.

When you are purchasing a whip pair, you have them made at the same time - by the same whip maker, with the same hide and plaited simultaneously or one straight after the other - to ensure they are as balanced and as same as they can be. Therefore to find an exact match to the whip you have from your uncle will be rather hard, the timing of the whips will be different, and this WILL matter for APWA.

Hope this sheds a little light on your decision making.

Just dropping in another video by Adam Winrich..

Thanks Bov - nice long whip from the yank
See you at Bristol?
Peas

nice video bov! i can never learn from reading.

yeah me neither
Poi's hard enough but whip.... Nah

Erm, it seems I don't do much except drop in videos from Adam Winrich - this one's on multiple cracks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYZgQqy3_fI

Meg, if you read this, you need to learn those then teach them to me

Another video, this time by someone else - Synchronized Whip Cracking: 4/4 time, 96 BPM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA2FSGE7lEg&feature=related