I’ve just had a boomin’ good Whitsun, and I hope you did too.
Sunday afternoon, ………perfectly blue sky,…………………… no-one else on my favourite throwing area – which is the size of about 6 rugby pitches, and then there is the Astroturf football pitch, the athletics running track etc – i.e. a pretty big area.
Looks good for MTA methinks….I lazily chuck my Manu MTA into the air and magically it takes off.
Within 5 seconds I could tell there was a thermal.
Within 10 seconds I was getting worried.
Within 30 seconds my boomerang had changed from the size of an MTA to the size of a sparrow !!
Bye-bye I thought.
It started to drift over the Astroturf and past the running track.
Bye-bye I thought.
Then……………….. as it started reaching the treeline it changed direction and started coming back in towards the field….
…………… and the sparrow became a blackbird…………….. and then a pigeon.
It was coming down in a controlled manner in a 5 metre strip between the running track and the hedge of the caretakers garden.
Thirty feet,……
…… come-on,
Twenty feet,……
……………..come-on,…….
……………………..Ten feet, ………………..I’m going to catch it!
Eight feet and it starts to spiral
Had the hedge not been in the way I would have caught it (honest I swear !)…..but at 5 minutes 17 seconds it was definitely my longest ever MTA throw.
I decided not to throw it again !
mark holman-lisney - UK - May 2009