Club Obi Wan

Yesterday I was outside cracking my whip and my little cousin Gabriel came outside to see me (he is only 4 and loves Indiana Jones ) well first of let me tell you, I had an old whip which was made for me by a family friend when I went to Guatemala to go see some family. It turned out my great uncle had a friend who made small whips to herd sheep. he found out i had wanted a whip for a long time , so he took me to his friend and i told him what i wanted, an Indiana jones whip, longer than what he usually makes and not a swivel-handle. and in a week i had my first whip!
it was not the best but it was nice and it was my first whip so i did not complain. well now that i have my new whip (the Del Carpio) i gave my old one to my little cousin because he really wanted it. cut to yesterday and he comes out with it and starts to crack the whip like a professional!!!!!! he can only do the overhead crack because that is the only one that works (this whip is like a wet noodle) and it was the one he saw me do countless of times. and i was just so amazed at what he was doing i taped him and here you have it

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

That has to be the funniest, most adorable thing I've ever seen on YouTube. I can't wait for my newborn nephew to be that age (he was born in April). I remember being that small and wanting to be virtually every character from the latest movie (Indy, Dick Tracy, Batman, even John McClane).

lol
he loves batman to
maybe i can get a vid of that to (he has the costume)

start early - will be great whipcracker

OMG! Toooooo cute!!!! I was smiling the whole way through! This kid has a future in whipcracking! My god!

Pretty dang cool - kid's already got good form. :junior:

It would be a lot cuter if he was wearing eye protection.

Great vid, Alex! It made me remember when I came back from the saddlemaker and handed my father the bullwhip I bought when I was nine and told him: Teach me how! Of course, he had no idea... LOL.

By the way, the whip you gave to your nephew looks great. It's great to see the Indy spirit passes on to the next generation!

All the Best.

That's cute.

Last May, a friend of mine was in town. He was excited about Indy 4 and wanted to learn how to crack a whip, so we went out in the back yard with the old Mexican 6 footer I had (the only whip I had at the time) and I showed him. My 2.5 year old came down to watch.

About a month later, I had been cleaning out my office and my whip was on the side table. My son was wandering around while working at my desk. Then I heard this whoosh behind me. My son was trying to do forward throws! With good form!

I said we need to go outside to do that. He said ok and on the way out of my office, he grabbed my old aussie "dry as a bone" hat and put it on. I've never worn an Indy type hat while cracking and I haven't even worn that hat in a while, but somehow my son knew that the hat went with the whip.

No, I don't let him do it very offten, and he condition of that whip, it's like throwing a piece of rope around, but he sure looks cute doing it. I'll try to post pictures later.

That video is the highlight of my day. Thanks for posting.

I'd say that kid's a natural.

Cool!! My son is sitting next to me watching this and just bugging me to death about being careful and using a whip too. Great....Now I have to get him one too.

Thanks every one for responding
I will most certainly get some good eye protection for him and maybe even a hat!
he did some more cracking today

~Alex

oh and just to be clear he is my cousin not my nephew lol

dear god i couldnt learn to do an overheard until i was 9, thats awesome!

Sorry! I knew something was not quite right. Your cousin. It's just that when I see a kid that age, I invariably think he should be your cousin, and it's been a long time since I last had a cousin that age! I think I didn't want to feel alone in my adulthood!

All the best.

The true heir to the Indy throne when Ford is no longer around

My son, whom is also 4, watched this video with me. I informed him he needed to play/practice more if he wanted to get that good.

He says " Daddy get me a real whip like yours and I can do that."

All my son has is the Hasbro Indy whip.

I can't even do that crack....

-KB

He crack very nice . What whip he use?

I have to praise my self . This is my brother year ago : http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=IoA5d7EkKlU. He was 9. Now he crack on two hands with 3,5 ft stockwhips . It looks very funny when some peoples about 25 come to learn cattleman's crack and he(10) crack same crack on different timing, or he's doing some other cracks . They are very confused when they see it .

Regards,
Karol