Sport Whip Cracking
Sport Whip Cracking (SWC)
What It Is
Sport whip cracking can be defined as whip cracking with the goal of entertaining oneself and others. Sport cracking includes many areas of whip cracking skills but each individual is free to determine their own specific interests.
Sport Whip Cracking includes...
- Recreational users
- Artistic cracking (what exactly is this???)
- Complex patterns
- Rhythmic patterns
- Circus/Show cracking
- Trick whipping
- Targeting
- Flow arts
- Cracking volume
What It's Not
Sometimes it's easier to define something by pointing out what it's not, some valid uses of whips simply don't fall under the heading of SWC. Also, it must be recognized that whips have been used for cruel or evil purposes. While we recognize that dark history does exist, we would like to emphasize that Sport Whip Cracking, and the people that practice it, are trying to change that view of whips and help people understand that whip cracking can be so much more.
Sport Whip Cracking is not about...
- Herding/driving/working animals
- BDSM
- Abuse
- Racism
- Slavery
