Curriculum
Mandatory Tricks
To earn your Black Sling, you must have a Blue Sling Certification and perform any combination of the following tricks such that you earn a total of 6 difficulty class points throughout the duration of your qualification & include at least one 540:​
0.5 Points:
- Triple Aerial Crossplane to BTB Catch
- Jeup Hook or Double OTH BTB Flow Catch
- Varial Kiwi Grab
1 Point:
- Sextuple Aerial
- Gozo’s Quad Right Shoulder Toss
- Zykotic (540)
- Quad Back Ninja
- Quad Rising Sun BTB Flow Catch
- TIC Varial
- Quad Side Toss (or Aerial Toss) BTB Power Catch
- UTL Varial of your choosing (360 Varial + Under Right Leg Catch)
- OTH Triple Skip Spin (3x Cont.)
- OTH Quad Aerial
- Triple Satan's Whip (+ 5 OTH Cont.)
1.5 Point:
- Septuple Aerial
- Back Spin with Three Full Rotations
- Jeupacabra (540)
- Quadruple Rising Sun (aka Stationary Triple Full Ninja)
- Cosmic Hawaiian (720 Varial)
- Quad Hell's Whip
- Centino XPlane Varial BTB Power Catch
- Quint Side Toss (or Aerial Toss) BTB Power Catch
- Quad Heaven's Whip
- OTH Quint Aerial
- [Coming Soon] Lazarus (540)
2 Point:
- [Coming Soon] Whirligig
- [Coming Soon] Octuple
- [Coming Soon] Cosmic Floridian
- [Coming Soon] Trash Boat (540)
For a total of ​six ​tricks.
IMPORTANT NOTE: All Black Sling Qualifications MUST INCLUDE AT LEAST ONE 540 Varial in order to pass.
Video Overview
Grading
Black Slings are Pass/Fail and Graded Off-Stream.
Black Slings are graded on the following curve:
Penalties
Minor Penalties: 0.00
Moderate Penalties: 0.00
Major Penalties: 5.00
Score
Minimum Passing Score: 80+ points
Maximum Score: 100 points
​Failure conditions for Pass/Fail include:
- The rifle is caught by the sling.
- The rifle touches the ground at all at the time of the catch.
- A trick is not performed as required (such as unauthorized wind ups, especially during stationary triple full ninja - see the attached video for expectations).
- Two feet must be on the ground at the time of the catch (exceptions are made for drillers in the middle of an otherwise controlled step. This rule is to avoid a qualification video where the driller lunges for a lucky, uncontrolled catch.)
- The scorer reserves the right to make additional judgment calls (if an issue arises, it will be discussed prior to livestreams)
As a reminder, it is customary, but not required, to begin and end your assessment with a Present Arms.
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