This fall/winter I haven’t gotten a lot of bullwhip cracking in due to my schedule and the weather. It seems like whenever I have a free day it’s either raining, or has just stopped raining.
Today I got out and gave my bullwhips a bit of a workout. I’m breaking in a pair of two tone bullwhips that I had made for myself a while ago. They are starting to break in nicely, but need more time.
While I was out I was messing about with a fun combination of cracks. I was using the following cracks (all two handed):
* Volleys with both hands
* Volley in left hand and arrowhead in right
* Volley in right hand and arrowhead in left
* Arrowhead in both hands
By mixing combinations of the above cracks you can end up with some fun combinations of things. Like doing one arrowhead crack across the body and back, then doing an arrowhead with the other hand. the hand that’s not doing the arrowhead is doing a volley. I hope that makes sense how I wrote it.
Next time I’m out I’ll try to remember to bring the camera and take some pictures.
Louie
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