Difference Between the Flick and the Cattleman's Crack

[techrtr]

What's the difference between the Flick and the Cattleman's crack? I've seen a complete video of the Flick, but only a short demo of the Cattleman's crack and it looks like they are pretty much the same. If someone can point me to a video that shows the difference between the two I'd really appreciate it.

[Kiscien]

Cattleman's crack is the crack when you throw back your whip, and after that you throw it in front of you. Whip is making loop when throwing.

To flicks you classify every crack whep whip is doing only half loop (180 degree). You don't need to throw them back. You can put whip behind you on the ground, then throw it in front. It will crack.

Hope you understand what I mean. It will be much more helpfull if I will attach short video to this, what I think I will do soon.

Regards,
Karol

[Mannie Bothans]

What's the difference between the Flick and the Cattleman's crack? I've seen a complete video of the Flick, but only a short demo of the Cattleman's crack and it looks like they are pretty much the same. If someone can point me to a video that shows the difference between the two I'd really appreciate it.

Check the sticky:

It seems like there's been a bit of confusion lately about what to call different cracks, so we thought we'd make up a quick video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvJ3k16EVX0

There are really only two ways to make a whip crack.

1. The first way is to reverse the direction the whip is flowing while it's in midair, which creates a loop in the whip ("The Cattleman's Crack"). Do this crack in different planes around your body and point the crack in different directions, and you can do a wide variety of cracks.

2. The second way is to throw the whip so that a hairpin curve flows down the taper of the whip ("The Flick"). Making the whip crack with the flick is similar to throwing a baseball in some ways. And as Mike Murphy has said, you can crack the whip with the flick in any direction you can throw a baseball - so you can make many different cracks with this basic flick.

This video shows some of the most basic ways to use these two types of cracks. People refer to some of these cracks using multiple names, but during the video we have labeled each with the most commonly used and accepted terms, worldwide. We hope that this can be a reference for everyone on COW to help avoid confusion when we all talk about specific cracks.

The whipcrackers in this video (who also happen to be whipmakers) are Paul Nolan, Lauren Wickline, and Bernardo del Carpio. Extra special thanks go to Lauren Wickline for taking an enormous amount of time to edit together this video and provide the visual commentary on each of the cracks.

Regards,

Paul Nolan
www.midwestwhips.com

[Mannie Bothans]

You might also enjoy taking a look at Adam's videos on YouTube. Here's one for example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUVTvmwFBZk

[techrtr]

Excellent, thanks very much guys.