Shooting Golf Balls From Huge Homemade Slingshot

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Published on June 6, 2010 5:35:05 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOdJlkpmDe4

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Is this the beginning of a new sport? Jörg Sprave shoots 45 Gramm golf balls with 44 meters per second...

A new slingshot has been designed specifically for that job, so it came out huge. The frame is made from a core of hardwood plywood (multiplex), but two aluminum boards have been laminated to the front and back.

The slingshot has a very unusual shape, it looks like Poseidon's spear. That is why the slingshot carries the name "Poseidon's Slingshot".

The golf balls are shot into a catch box, but also through the Chrony to find out how fast they fly. At the clocked 43,78 m/s, the energy of the ball is 43 Joules, almost six times the energy of a target air rifle.