Curriculum
Mandatory Tricks
To earn your Black Sling, you must have a Blue Sling Certification and perform any six of the following tricks:
- Gozo’s Quad Right Shoulder Toss
- Back Spin with Three Full Rotations
- Zykotic
- Jeupacabra
- Quadruple Rising Sun (aka Stationary Triple Full Ninja)
- Sextuple Aerial
- Septuple Aerial
- Cosmic Hawaiian (720 Varial)
- Triple Aerial Crossplane to BTB Catch
- Jeup Hook or Double OTH BTB Flow Catch
- OTH Triple Skip Spin (3x Cont.)
- OTH Quad Aerial
- OTH Quint Aerial
- Quad Heaven's Whip
- Quad Hell's Whip
- Triple Satan's Whip (+ 5 OTH Cont.)
- Quad Back Ninja
- Quad Rising Sun BTB Flow Catch
- TIC Varial
- Varial Kiwi Grab
- Centino XPlane Varial BTB Power Catch
- Quad Side Toss (or Aerial Toss) BTB Power Catch
- Quint Side Toss (or Aerial Toss) BTB Power Catch
- UTL Varial of your choosing (360 Varial + Under Right Leg Catch)
- 540 Varial of your choosing (360 Varial + 180 for BTB catch) (minimum 2.5 rifle rotation)
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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