Pro Tip - Slingshot Performance - Active Band Length (Advanced)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- SimpleShot Pro Tip. Active Band Length (Advanced)
In this video, we get into a little more detail about exactly how long to trim your bands.
Once you have figured out your draw length and know your active band length, you then need to trim your bands to the appropriate length.
In this video we go over exactly what is needed to make sure your bands are the perfect length. Demonstrated using FlipClips, this video goes over the extra length needed on your band set to accommodate tie-ins or band attachments.
Make sure you always know exactly how much band will be used for your band attachment before you trim your bands! You can always return them to be shorter but once you've trimmed them there's no going back.
Enjoy those perfectly tuned bands!
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You havnt explained nothing??? You didn't say how much extra do we need to allow for attaching bands normally with wrap tuck method and I clicked in this video hopefully to find out calculations as I measured my length of draw today as I'm ordering stuff soon to get started so I was hoping to received advice but nope.
This is just one video. We have LOADS of video on this topic. Search draw length, active band length and band tuning for more!
To calculate active length from draw length, does band thickness matters?
No, only the amount of max elongation for that latex.
@@simpleshot so based on thickness ,active length will vary for a fixed draw length. Am I correct?
I have now entered the "Realm" of cutting my on band sets, tying the rubber to the pouch and test firing. The elongation of a particular latex can be measured before you start cutting!
Welcome to the club! You are 100% correct. Different latex brands have different maximum elongation percentages.
so there are 4 opinions on active band length. 4,5,5.5 and 6 . which the most accurate ?
Accuracy is dependent on the shooter and not the elongation. One elongation is not any better for accuracy only bandlife.
@@simpleshot That makes total sense. Although, in my experience, it is much easier to aim and hit the target with the shorter bands. That is why semi and full butterfly are so much harder to master. They rely not only on aiming, but muscle memory, since the anchor point of using short bands equation has been removed.
"pro tip" haha
This video had nothing to do with active band length. It was about the other attachment system.
This was a secondary video explaining how Active Band Length has to account for the attachment, that's all. We tried to be clear in the description. We're sorry to let you down!
I thought the the "extra half-inch" was for the pouch attachment, but here you're saying that it's for the fork tip attachment. If we use an extra half inch for the fork tip attachment, how much more should we add for the pouch attachment?
Thanks!
Right. This video is assuming you're using pre-built bandsets. If you're making your own, just trim them to your active band length (as referenced here) after you've made your bandset.
@@simpleshot
My question is, BEFORE one attaches a pouch to a band, how much allowance should one make for the pouch tie-on?
Doing it with the band already attached means
originally cutting a band length which will eventually be shortened, thus wasteful of our friend TBG.
@@simpleshot
What I'm trying to get at is this: I've a slab of TBG from which I'd like to make a bands, with an active length of 6". So as not to WASTE any TBG, I don't want to FIRST make a bandset, because if I did that, then I'd have to cut some off (wasting TBG $) to it's final length.
So, if the 1/2" extra tie-on measurement is for the fork tip attachment, how much more do you suggest for the pouch tie-on?
@@usernamemykel That's really up to your ability to grasp the end when you tie in. Keep it as short as you are able. If you can't get a good grip, leave a longer end and trim the extra after you tie in.
Also, TBG was one of the best latex options a while ago, but we've seen it massively beat out by new latex on the market now. No offense to TBG, and it still has a big following, and it can of course be shot with accuracy, but it's no longer near the top in terms of performance latex.
@@simpleshot
Firstly, thanks for the response.
I'm rather pretty good at grasping ends, along with my spring clamp pouch tying jig. I do tend to keep them short and sweet.
I've $26 worth of TBG roll to use up before it dries out (talcum powder or Aerospace 303, applied to rubbery products, extends their life, as you probably already know) before I'll need the newer latex.
However, I've an open mind (kinda drafty in there) - of which specific latex are you referring?