Club Obi Wan

Where do you guys crack in the winter? Or do you just let your whip crackin' muscles atrophe and get real stiff in the spring when you try to re-learn all you forgot about whip cracking over the cold, snowy months?

well, 'round here, the whip goes on the shelf about October, right after a good rub-down of Picards. Come May, another coating, and she's out about the same time as the Challenger.

Used to be about the same time that the Wested got shelved, since May is a bit warm for cowhide...but with the new lambskin, I'll just trade, rather than go without. (yay!)

My recommendations(s):
- move down south )
- or seriously, buy some nylon whips
- or find an indoor place to crack (i.e. gyms, barns, indoor tennis courts, multipurpose rooms in various schools and churches, etc.)

I have a nylon snakewhip which I can crack in my living room, but I'm wondering what others do.

Won't cracking on a linoleum floor ruin a whip? I thought you guys were partial to your lush lawns underneath your whips.

Snakewhip_Sable wrote:...Won't cracking on a linoleum floor ruin a whip? I thought you guys were partial to your lush lawns underneath your whips.

Nope! Any smooth surface floor is NOT harmful to leather whips. It's the rough surface type of floors like concrete or asphalt. For that you can buy a piece of astro turf or carpet remnant.

-Sergei

My building has a racketball court that no one, except for one ancient Tai Chi practitioner, uses. I will be going there rather than the concrete-floored roofdeck.

So when cracking in below zero-temperatures, what can one expect from the cracking performance? I'm thinking of air density and such...

Any physics experts around here?

Ah yes,
winter time cracking,

yep, I crack whips in the snow, roohide and cowhide, now if its snowing really hard, I don't , only because it gets hard to see.

all I do is put a light coat of pecards on the thong the night before,
(adding a little extra on the fall) then after I'm finished giving the whips a workout,
I lay my whips straight out on the floor to dry, (wiping of the fall first)
as there drying I sometimes add another light coat of whipdressing, (just enough to moisten my hands) adding extra on the fall.

I've never had a problem, . Its really fun to go out when all is quiet and let of a few bangs, then of cores, you feel like yelling Mush! mush! or oatmeal!


ATB

Jim J.

Don't come South! It's nothing but MUD down HERE right now. Regards. Michaelson

Hemingway Jones wrote:My building has a racketball court that no one, except for one ancient Tai Chi practitioner, uses. I will be going there rather than the concrete-floored roofdeck.

Let's see him concentrate on his Tai Chi with that crackin' noise going on!

Snakewhip_Sable wrote:

Hemingway Jones wrote:
My building has a racketball court that no one, except for one ancient Tai Chi practitioner, uses. I will be going there rather than the concrete-floored roofdeck.
Let's see him concentrate on his Tai Chi with that crackin' noise going on!

It sure would motivate him!

Sergei wrote:

Snakewhip_Sable wrote:...Won't cracking on a linoleum floor ruin a whip? I thought you guys were partial to your lush lawns underneath your whips.

Nope! Any smooth surface floor is NOT harmful to leather whips. It's the rough surface type of floors like concrete or asphalt. For that you can buy a piece of astro turf or carpet remnant.

-Sergei

I didn't know that, Sergi! So now I can crack this on a gymnasium floor and not worry about it. WOOHOO!!!!

bink

Plus at recess, there's lots of kids to scare!

Hemingway Jones wrote:My building has a racketball court that no one, except for one ancient Tai Chi practitioner, uses. I will be going there rather than the concrete-floored roofdeck.

Dude, that sounds like a great place for a NE Whip Enthusiasts Meeting!
Or at the very least, let me come over anduse the space!

Hemingway Jones wrote:

My building has a racketball court that no one, except for one ancient Tai Chi practitioner, uses. I will be going there rather than the concrete-floored roofdeck.


Dude, that sounds like a great place for a NE Whip Enthusiasts Meeting!
Or at the very least, let me come over anduse the space!
_________________

Sure, Anytime. I'm not sure what my neighbors will think, but there's one way to find out...

So when cracking in below zero-temperatures, what can one expect from the cracking performance? I'm thinking of air density and such...

Any physics experts around here?

The sound will travel faster in higher temperatures and thus slower below zero. The air molecules are still active below zero, but they vibrate much slower with less energy bumping into each other.

When it comes to how far away you can hear the sound and how it seems you can hear sounds farther away on a cold day, we come to the subject of inversion;
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/resourc ... action.htm
A bit more detailed:
http://users.lmi.net/moc/inversion.html

Anything good in there?

Regards,
Swindiana

my whips go into hibernation. To cold, to wet, to windy.

Swindiana wrote:The sound will travel faster in higher temperatures and thus slower below zero. The air molecules are still active below zero, but they vibrate much slower with less energy bumping into each other.

When it comes to how far away you can hear the sound and how it seems you can hear sounds farther away on a cold day, we come to the subject of inversion;
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/resourc ... action.htm
A bit more detailed:
http://users.lmi.net/moc/inversion.html

Anything good in there?

Is the Doppler effect accounted for?

Dakota Hurly wrote:my whips go into hibernation. To cold, to wet, to windy.

So you just put on the hot pack after your first day of crackin' in the spring, eh?

Well, I live in Southeastern Ohio, and my 8' Strain Lone Star should be on the way any day now.

I plan on doing my cracking in Florida ;-)

Spending the holidays with the parents near Tampa ;-)

My whips dont care.
Ive used roo in mud and snow.
Remember its a tool.
Adam

Scandinavia Jones wrote: Is the Doppler effect accounted for?

(In a tiny, green voice.)
-Yes, the Doppler effect always count in you have to . It binds together the galaxy, surrounds us it does, mhmm.


Regards,
Swindiana

My friend and I cracked his david morgan over at the kearny recreational center..no one seemed to mind.."as long as we weren't whipping each other" (that's what the manager said) hahahaha!

Regards,
Strider

Swindiana wrote:(In a tiny, green voice.)
-Yes, the Doppler effect always count in you have to . It binds together the galaxy, surrounds us it does, mhmm.

Well then - may the Doppler Effect be with you!

Melty Man wrote:Ya know, I honestly saw ITG crack her whips in her living room!

Whoa. How'd you manage that?

Regards,
Strider

So I'm guessing that y'all live close to one another, then? That's nifty. I wish I could see other COW members and their whip mastery in action

Regards,
Strider

Hemingway Jones wrote:

Hemingway Jones wrote:

My building has a racketball court that no one, except for one ancient Tai Chi practitioner, uses. I will be going there rather than the concrete-floored roofdeck.


Dude, that sounds like a great place for a NE Whip Enthusiasts Meeting!
Or at the very least, let me come over anduse the space!
_________________

Sure, Anytime. I'm not sure what my neighbors will think, but there's one way to find out...

The big problem is that it gets dark now at....what.......2:00 in the afternoon it seems . The sort of kills whip practice after work, and limits available time on weekends.



..............Bruce

Whats wrong with cracking in the dark?
Adam

Molorom wrote:Whats wrong with cracking in the dark?
Adam

Nothing... except when you combine it with New Englands
cold temperatures and freezing rain/snow/whatever else comes along this time of year!

My new Strain is scheduled for delivery tomorrow.

Lots of rain the last few days, (had some flooding,) and snow on the way Monday and the day after.

Hmm.

I got saddle soap and leather conditioner.



-Dan

After recent experience,

never use roo in mud. Its not so good for the leather.

I cant believe I used it during a NewEngland Rain storm .

Adam

Molorom wrote:After recent experience,

never use roo in mud. Its not so good for the leather.

I cant believe I used it during a NewEngland Rain storm .

Adam

..................note to self............


..........Bruce