Been working on a set and got the atlatl roughed out enough to start throwing.
My spears/darts are 7' long before I add 2' foreshafts.
The spears are bamboo I can source by roadsides. No rivercane anywhere near me.
This bamboo is quite tapered. Over that 7' they are about ⅜" at the nock end and about ⅞" at the point end where the foreshaft socket is.
Throwing the spears without foreshafts they are badly nose diving and flying point left. Now I don't know weather this is my technique or the equipment. A really weak underpowered throw seems to fly better.
Could these big heavy bamboo spears really be underspined? How can I correct this and get them flying straighter? Scrape the front end to try and get the front more flexible?
Oh, and my throwing forearm is really feeling it. The muscle on the top of the forearm is seriously tense and strained. Loss of grip strength.
