Club Obi Wan

Heres the current position im in with some whips.

i have a matched pair of PH Whips From Lauren Wickline heading my way in a week or two.

my aunt decided to do an amazing thing for me and she gave me a 250 budget and if it goes over a bit i will pay for it.

i have decided to go with Mike Murphy for this whip.
I cant decide on a matched pair of white hide stockwhips
or a 6ft 12 inch handled 8 plait bullwhip in roo

any advice?

Clarke

Hi Clarke,
You might want to check first with Mike about export costs, since he is in Australia. I know for a fact that Terry Jacka's export cost is about $75-100 plus the price of the whip. Just f.y.i

Allen

He told me that its about 25 bucks
bu it takes over a week to get to me

Clarke, What are your current whip cracking priorities? Do you want to work on dual handed whip cracking? Or single-handed whip cracking?

If you want to do dual handed whip cracking, the 5.5ft White hide stockwhips you ordered are great for learning and practicing two-handed Australian type competition routines. They are tough whips and are going to handle pretty much what ever you can throw at them. They also handle differently then the nylon performance hybrids you have coming from Lauren. Those are great whips too, but I know you ordered them in a short length and being shorter whips; that changes your timing and takes away some of the advantage of allowing the whips roll out more to make the crack. Having that extra length can help to give you a better feel for the whips and allow you to slow things down which can be especially helpful as your learning the more complex routines.

Then again, If want to focus on single whip cracking. You won’t go wrong with one of Mike’s 8plait bullwhips. Mike is a very good whip maker, one of the better around today and one of his 6ft 8plait bullwhips would be an excellent bullwhip to have. It would also be a very precise well-balanced whip that could really help you to start refining your whip cracking and focus your skills. It’s a whip that is light and cracks easily but also keep in mind that because is going to be a more finely made whip, its going to require more care and won't take well to hard power cracking.

Basically though each of these whips have pros and cons, but in the end its about getting what is going to best suit and what you want to get out of them.

Dan