In this episode of “Cracking A Whip With A Total Fucking Moron” I take the opportunity to kinda show my personal style of whip cracking when I’m, well, cracking whips. It’s a technique I’ve been working on for about a year now. With this technique in which early on I referred to as “talking to birds” because of how it would create a fluttering/flapping sound as I implemented small deliberate wrist movements tying two loud cracks together (example: after executing a side arm flick and continuing into an overhead crack I add some well timed micro-movements in my wrist to add at least, two to three extra cracks that happen in the set up transition between the two basic cracks. And in most cases, ramping up the kinetic energy in the final crack causing a louder crack without sacrificing the natural fluid mechanics and physics of keeping momentum continuously and effortlessly).
Or… in other words I try to shove extra cracks in between the cracks most people don’t look in.
Enjoy! And thank you for watching.

This video was photographed and edited by
SMILE HARD STUDIOS

whip cracking done by
Trenton Conner

Featured bullwhips
8’ nylon “ARKANSAS BULLWHIP” by JR Burnett (JR’s Hobby Horse)
5’ nylon “STOCK WHIP” by Darrel Lejeune (Lejeune Paracords)
6’ nylon “BULLWHIP” by Alyssum Iris (Iris Whips and Leather Craft) *deleted due to video coherence and time constraints (sorry)

Thank you Patrick Gavin for inspiring this video. It was fun to make and would have never happened if it wasn’t for you. Hope it helps answer your question.

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