yakuza wrote: Hello Whip!
Gee goly! Now Thats a tough one to get her to do it, cos i was like going back errr.....at least 7 yrs ago matey when i was working in the city.
The city has changed since then.
Yes it was Dot Art done on canvas, looked pretty impresive if u ask me.
But I wouldn't ask ya if Yak didn't have a plan.
Plan A. Go to a pre-school and get them pre-schoolies to do one up for ya.........hmmmmm....might look more like caveman style. Hand prints + smudges of food stains and don't ask what the other stain is. I don't want to know either.
Or
Plan B. I'll follow up some info from the school my son goes to, He had gone on an excursion where they talked about Aboriginal culture with real Aboriginal people. Thats my best bet.He told me it wasn't far Hmmmmm........Idk?
Or
Plan C. By luck I find her again. If that was the case i wished my luck went to a lottory ticket instead.
Or
Do it myself programe otherwise u can buy a boomarang painted at a duty free shop but if u ask me they look and feel fake. for sure they don't fly back and my wife hell wont fetch it for me.
Don't worry i'll get the info before we can discus other info such as what boomarang u going ta get painted, how it will look such as patterns etc........
Let me know if theres anything i missed.

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Really I think it would just be great to be in Australia for the boom championships! Don't worry too much we will figure something out. I can usually tell if something flys or not and I will be bringing a bunch with me of course so if we figure something out cool if not no worries!

Yay Jacob your boom should be there today! Let me know how it flies for you...

Not here yet. Called ups and they were no help.

Are they ever?

So cool to see some guy's get so excited over some thing some other guy made in some other place so far away!

Good stuff!

Wait until he catches it his first time...that's excitement!

Hey Jacob they wont deliver to a PO box...I need an address that UPS can deliver to, it's on hold until Wednesday.

That's odd, the guy at the post office sad they receive ups packages sometimes. I'll see if its okay to get it delivered to my work when I go in tomorrow.

Yay! It's back...thanks whomever it was...Jacob did you get it yet? All I get when I look up tracking is Address Changed..

Slender yours is scheduled for Friday it looks like.

Jacob10000 wrote: That's odd, the guy at the post office sad they receive ups packages sometimes. I'll see if its okay to get it delivered to my work when I go in tomorrow.

Yeah I said the same thing...it's that the point of a PO box?? but my wife said maybe since it comes from another country...dunno

Jacob! How's your boom been?

Mine should be arriving today, I'm pretty stoked. Can't wait to see how it handles.

haven't got it yet.

Still?

Yeah this is ridiculous! UPS was given another address 3 days ago?? My wife said they called and confirmed the address yesterday?? How long can it take for an address change...you would think UPS could handle something like that pretty easy?? I have something called quantum view and this is all I have...

I was kinda upset about it so I bought a car to keep myself occupied.

Jacob10000 wrote: I was kinda upset about it so I bought a car to keep myself occupied.

OK so my wife called UPS and all is good they say and will be either today or Monday for delivery...

Jacob10000 wrote: I was kinda upset about it so I bought a car to keep myself occupied.

Just don't have UPS deliver it

Just got the boomerang 3 hours ago, Snide! Wow. It's unbelievably badass. It completely caught me off guard as to how fast it was going to be, hahahah!

After a few throws, I figured how to get it to return right to me. R.I.P my hands. It didn't look like it was coming in as fast as it hurt.

Thanks so much mate, once I get as good as you were in your video -- I'll see if I can get my own up here.

The way to catch it is first have gloves if you can

Next track the center...that's why I put the black dot

When it comes towards you it shows it's back to you and you get your catching hand in sync with the center and use your other hand to sandwich it into your catching hand

I dont know if that makes sense but really get a glove too I have seen some nasty split fingers.

Pros can throw them over 100 MPH so it can get pretty dangerous especially since it's at head level

Oh and the video I made was such luck...I never do that...I suck at fast catch...My record in competition is like 24 seconds...usually it a lot more of it whipping past me and me swearing as I run after it. I had one round where I threw and it hit the ground at the 20m line (the distance check line) and just kept bouncing along the ground further and further out. The crappy part is you must go get it to continue your round! I wasn't happy.

Jacob today at 3:53 I got this from UPS

Exception Reason: POST OFFICE BOX ADDRESS. UPS IS ATTEMPTING TO OBTAIN AN ADDRESS TO WHICH DELIVERY CAN BE MADE, NOT DELIVERED
Exception Resolution: THE EXCEPTION WAS OVERRIDDEN AND A NEW EXCEPTION WAS CREATED.

Then I got...

Exception Reason: THE UPS INITIATED DELIVERY INTERCEPT REQUEST FOR THIS PACKAGE WAS SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED
Exception Resolution: THE ADDRESS HAS BEEN CORRECTED. THE DELIVERY HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED

I dunno?

SnidleyWhiplash wrote: The way to catch it is first have gloves if you can

Next track the center...that's why I put the black dot

When it comes towards you it shows it's back to you and you get your catching hand in sync with the center and use your other hand to sandwich it into your catching hand

I dont know if that makes sense but really get a glove too I have seen some nasty split fingers.

Pros can throw them over 100 MPH so it can get pretty dangerous especially since it's at head level

Actually, I made my first catch doing that! After blundering up my palms, I grabbed a pair of leather gloves. Worked perfectly. I also always saw the pros "sandwiching" the boom as it came in and presto! Caught it...once.

I've gotten maybe 10 solid returns in total. But maaaan. Sometimes I whip it out there and get a solid snap -- causing it to get some massive speed. Real hard to force your body towards it so you can catch it.

SnidleyWhiplash wrote: Oh and the video I made was such luck...I never do that...I suck at fast catch...My record in competition is like 24 seconds...usually it a lot more of it whipping past me and me swearing as I run after it. I had one round where I threw and it hit the ground at the 20m line (the distance check line) and just kept bouncing along the ground further and further out. The crappy part is you must go get it to continue your round! I wasn't happy.

Precisely the thing that makes me come inside and take a break every hour. I think I've put in a good 3 hours practising today. I'm going to watch a movie now and head back out in a bit.

Slenderman wrote:

SnidleyWhiplash wrote: The way to catch it is first have gloves if you can

Next track the center...that's why I put the black dot

When it comes towards you it shows it's back to you and you get your catching hand in sync with the center and use your other hand to sandwich it into your catching hand

I dont know if that makes sense but really get a glove too I have seen some nasty split fingers.

Pros can throw them over 100 MPH so it can get pretty dangerous especially since it's at head level

Actually, I made my first catch doing that! After blundering up my palms, I grabbed a pair of leather gloves. Worked perfectly. I also always saw the pros "sandwiching" the boom as it came in and presto! Caught it...once.

I've gotten maybe 10 solid returns in total. But maaaan. Sometimes I whip it out there and get a solid snap -- causing it to get some massive speed. Real hard to force your body towards it so you can catch it.

SnidleyWhiplash wrote: Oh and the video I made was such luck...I never do that...I suck at fast catch...My record in competition is like 24 seconds...usually it a lot more of it whipping past me and me swearing as I run after it. I had one round where I threw and it hit the ground at the 20m line (the distance check line) and just kept bouncing along the ground further and further out. The crappy part is you must go get it to continue your round! I wasn't happy.

Precisely the thing that makes me come inside and take a break every hour. I think I've put in a good 3 hours practising today. I'm going to watch a movie now and head back out in a bit.

When you feel good about your skill enough to throw with us (and if you saw most of us throw you might already be ready ) you must come to a tournament and meet the god of boomerangs (the hyper guy in that vid you saw). It changes your whole perception of obsession of boomerangs. On one of the boomerang boards someone had a post of, "You know you are obsessed with boomerangs when...here is his reply:

You know you are obsessive compulsively hooked on boomerangs when your entire world is boomerangs...ie you wear boomerings, boom watches, boombelts, boom underwear, boom hats, boom shirts and shorts, boom tennis shoes. Your mailbox is a boombox, you have a neon boomerang in the front window, a sign in the backyard that says "Parking for boomerang throwers all others will be tossed away." Your phone # is 49B-RANG, your car license plate is BRANGS and the antenna on the car is a boomerang. You have boomerang pens, harmonicas, tables, chairs, a boomerang pillow (that when you sleep on it, you get reoccurring dreams) you have a boomerang clock that is (proof that time really does fly). You have boomerang Formica counter tops, boom brushes, boomerang spoons, glasses and plates. I even throw my kids out and they come back. etc... Gary

And I can verify he has all of this and more...his boomerang stained glass is probably one of the strangest 'boom' items. But really you will never meet a better bunch of people...we always say in what other sport do you have competitors who will lend you their best equipment and show you how to beat them!

Well Jacob UPS says you have it...do ya?

On my way to find out now.

Sweet let me know

Got it! Now for throwing instructions.

Well I couldn't/didn't wait for further instructions, threw it a four times and then stopped.

First throw was just to see how it flew, low power and all. It obviously turned to the left.

Second throw had more power bit never started back.

Third throw I threw it hard and relatively low. It did not come back, though it was close (20 ft).

Fourth throw was hard and "higher". It flew outward and up (100 ft or so), then came back and got stuck in a tree. since we are familiar with "things" stuck in trees we tried what we had......not tall enough..

So I climbed...18ft or so, still no luck (even with the "pole saw" (its about 15ft). Eventually we got out the 30ft telescoping "antenna rod". Losing daylight, we extended it and walked it up to the tree and knocked it out. That's the highest we have ever had to rescue an object.

Anyways....I'm hooked, I think I shall do some reading and make some of my own.


Thanks Whip.

Sorry Jacob I thought you saw I posted this before:

www.rediboom.com/phpwcms/index.php?id=85,0,0,1,0,0

this should sort it out...I will say throwing higher is rarely the answer...they higher angle of launch the harder you would have to throw since it's counter intuitive. The more power a boom needs the lower you launch it...I have some long distance that I launch below parallel to the ground so it dips low and then rises..I hope this helps.

Also helpful...

www.rediboom.com/phpwcms/index.php?id=86,73,0,0,1,0