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more atlatl discussion
YosemiteBen:
Good afternoon -
anasazi:
Would it have a effect to some ones arm similar to changing from throwing a woofle ball to throwing a base balljust a thought i havent tried using a banner stone yet
burchett.donald:
Could the stone have been used to stabilize the atlatl for better accuracy? Kinda like a stabilizer on bows...
YosemiteBen:
Don't know what happened to my last post but....
Have you ever gone canoeing and put the blade all the way in the water and tried to paddle? Pushing that column of water with the blade makes your hand wobble like crazy figure almost a square foot of water at 60 lbs more or less to the cubic foot times the lentgh of the stroke and that is a lot of weight to try to push. With the atlatl you have appx 2/3 of the dart weight in front of the atlatl and that does cause some wobble in your throw. Perhaps the banner stone is to stabilize the wobble of the throw.
RidgeRunner:
Not long ago I read that the weight may have been used as a counter weight to the dart. ( Cant remember where I read that.)
If you were in the ready position with the atlata raised the weight of the dart ( out front of your hand ) would get heavy and want to droop to the ground. The weight, on the atlata, would balance the dart in your hand. Then you could hold it "up" and ready much longer.
Makes since....
David
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