Description
Bullwhip Long Handle
Overview The
Bullwhip Long Handle is a carefully handcrafted bullwhip made from quality cow hide by
South Africa's premier bullwhip maker, Johan Steyn who has over 3,000 proud whipcracking customers.
Bullwhips are now
for sale online at
Animal Gear, who will deliver directly to your door in South Africa. The long handle is not typical of a traditional bullwhip and as such is also known locally in South Africa as the
Mamba. The making of bullwhips is an art and it takes years to hone whipmaking skills. Each
bullwhip is carefully made by hand, taking into account balance and flexibility. The Bullwhips available from Animal Gear are platted from the tip backward toward the handle which prevents loose ends forming at the front, which is a problem with other bullwhips on the market. Animal Gear through their whipmaker offer a
replacement guarentee on condition that the bullwhip is dubbened quarterly, the popper and fall are replaced regularly and the bullwhip has not been misused i.e. don't use it for towing your vehicle. Bullwhips have been in existance since the first recordings of history and can be seen in early hieroglyphics. Traditionally bullwhips have been used for driving cattle. Bullwhips are the whips of choice by circus performers and stuntmen, particularly those doing Western-style acts. The
Indiana Jones movies featuring Harrison Ford, extensively
features the bullwhip in action and did a lot to popularise
whipcracking as a hobby. Indiana Jones can be seen carrying an 8 inch bullwhip on his belt, which incidently is the perfect length to start with when learing the art of whipcracking. Animal Gear identified bullwhipping or
whipcracking as a
fast growing hobby in South Africa and as such started selling
bullwhips online. If you are looking to take up the hobby of whipcracking then you will need to learn some of the various crack's and
whipcracking techniques. The easiest crack to learn is the forward crack, which is safe for beginners and is often used to cut targets. The sidearm crack is used for wraps and the overhead crack is the most impressive looking and gives you the loudest cracks. The
cracking sound you hear is a result of the tip of the whip moving
faster than the speed of sound and creating a vacuum in space. The air rushing back into the vacuum makes the loud pop sound. A bullwhip generates its speed through the conservation of energy. A little energy imparted at the handle accelerates along the diminishing diameter until the popper is moving over 1120 km / hour. Bullwhips are made up of various sections and most whips share the same names for these parts / sections. The
thong of a whip is the entire flexible leather braided section of any whip. The
popper is the front tip of the bullwhip and is an easily replaceable portion of the whip. It is the part of the bullwhip that takes the most abuse. Contrary to popular belief, the popper is not necessary for a whip to crack. We just use poppers because if we didn't, the end of the fall would begin to fray instead of the popper, and poppers are much easier and cheaper to replace than falls. The
fall is a thick and durable strip betwee the popper and the thong. Though not as easy as poppers, falls are still fairly easily replacable.
The fall hitch is the end of the thong, where the fall is attached. The
transition knot, on most modern bullwhips, serves no other real purpose beyond marking the point of transition between the handle and the thong. The
handle is not flexible like the thong. It provides the extra leverage
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