Somewhere or other, in a thread I cannot find now, I queried Dgui about this very thing. All my life, everyone I have known has held the pouch a certain way. Look at an over the top shooter. The bands are coming back to the pouch. In my experience, the inside edges of the bands get turned upward, while the outside edges of the bands get turned downward. Let me call this the "inside up" arrangement. I noticed that Dgui did the opposite ... he turned the inside edges of the bands downward and the outisde edges of the bands upward. Let me call this the "inside down" arrangement. When I asked him about it, he said he always did it that way and had advocated it, but that I was the first one to ever comment on it. When I began looking at photos and videos of folks shooting, I noted that some used the inside down hold, but most seemed to use the inside up hold.
I note that Dgui does both ... he gives the bands a 1/4 twist, as well as using the inside down arrangement. The 1/4 twist is also used by Guatamalens when shooting their style of slingshots, which are essentially the same as what we on this forum have come to call a PFS.
More here:
http://slingshotforu...gn-is-very-old/
But the Guatemalans use square bands, so I doubt there is any significant difference between the inside up and inside down arrangements with square bands, nor of course with tubes or rubber band chains.
Having said all that, any maneuver that cuts down on band slap is a good thing. You are to be congratulated for being observant enough to note this subtlety.
I hope I have correctly understood your suggestion. If not, then just ignore my little palaver!
Cheers ....... Charles
Edited by Charles, 15 November 2011 - 11:38 AM.
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