Whip Crackin'

Posted by Austin Powers from dialupD210.mpls.uswest.net on July 06, 2001 at 19:42:25:

I had my 8ft Mark Allen out earlier today and I was finally able to get some real slick cracks out of it. Up 'til now, I was only succeeding in one forward-type crack, but now I was able to pull-off the "Circus Crack" and an over-the-head helicopter-type crack, both of which I saw on online bullwhip pages.

While I was practicing, I remembered what they said on one of these webpages about being very gentle and fluid in your movements, which I wasn't able to do when trying to emulate Indy's manuevers in the Cairo bazaar. Indy really jerks the whip at a high rate of speed, which I found out does not make a decent crack, if any. So I slowed my movements down quite a bit and everything on the bullwhip sites fell into place.

So I wonder if Ford was crackin' the whip incorrectly.

Austin Powers

Follow Ups:

• He was brandishing the whip like a weapon. Rundquist 20:09:10 7/06/2001 (0)
• He was brandishing the whip like a weapon. Rundquist 20:08:18 7/06/2001 (0)
• Maybe he swung it the way it was swung and they added the sound in later... Travis 19:45:37 7/06/2001 (1)
  • Re: Maybe he swung it the way it was swung and they added the sound in later... California Smith 19:58:08 7/06/2001 (0)

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