hey what’s up guys it’s grant here I
know some of you have been wondering
where I’ve gone well I’ve got an update
video coming out in the next week or two
that’ll explain all the answers to your
questions I’ve got a big announcement to
make so keep your eyes out for that
video in the next week or two I’ll see
you there hey guys I’m Nate welcome back
to the workshop not too long ago we
showed you how to build your very own
bullwhip using paracord bb’s athletic
tape and some PVC piping well today
we’re gonna go over a couple of quick
lessons on how to get your bullwhip to
crack well without hurting yourself
first is the Cattleman’s crack to do the
Cattleman’s crack you need to start out
with the whip lying out straight behind
you what I’m going to do is bring my arm
up into the 12 o’clock position and the
whole whip will flip up in the air
around and behind me once the whip is
pointing behind me not when it’s above
me but when it’s behind me I’ll then
bring my arm back down to the 6 o’clock
position the whole whip will curl along
and then at the end when the fall
straightens out that’s where it cracks
the other type of crack I was doing is
called the overhead crack this type of
crack is actually a reversal of which
direction you’re swinging the whip above
your head so to start out I swing
counterclockwise if you’re practicing
this you want to make sure that you can
easily swing it without it touching the
ground anywhere around you and then when
I get to about here and the whip is
pointing straight behind me I will
reverse direction in a clockwise way and
the whip which will be swinging above my
head will get that same curl in it that
it does from the Cattleman’s crack and
then this last one which again I don’t
know if it has a name I just sort of
figured it out it probably does have a
name but I’m pretty new at this sport
all I’m going to do is very quickly
bring my arm forward like I’m throwing a
baseball sort of sidearm and then once
I’m near the front I snap my wrist to
give it a little extra flick to it whip
cracking 101 there you have it that’s
three beginning whip cracks there are
ways that you can go in routines from
one crack into another and there are
probably a dozen different ways to crack
the whip that I don’t know yet I’m just
learning this myself we also had one
viewer who directed me to another video
that suggested a faster way
the Polish it uses some ball chain
instead of bb’s fit down inside the
paracord so we’re gonna try throwing one
of those together and see how well it
works just like in the other video my
first piece of paracord is going to be
long enough that it can stick out the
back by about a foot you’ll go the
length of the handle and then it will
have eight feet of paracord in front of
the handle
there’s our eight-foot mark use some
tape to mark where the back of our long
piece of paracord leaves the handle of
our whip now I need nine more pieces of
paracord which will get progressively
shorter as they go down the length of
the whip we want our second piece of
paracord to be 18 inches shorter than
our longest piece and after that every
piece will shrink by about eight inches
[Music]
images shorter cut April 10 there we go
we’ve got our 10 strands of paracord so
let’s add some ball chain for weight now
the ball chain is clearly not gonna have
the same amount of weight per strand as
bb’s inside of paracord so we’re gonna
try doubling the amount of chains that
we have maybe more I don’t want to go as
long as our longest or even our second
longest cord but I am gonna measure out
our third longest piece of cord to make
a chain that length now that piece of
chain is about six feet long and this
roll of chain comes with 30 feet on it
I’m going to add another piece but to
make sure we keep the taper of the whip
nice and natural I’m gonna shorten this
one by about four inches I’m just gonna
keep going adding pieces of chain
shortening it by about 4 inches every
time I have two rolls of this metal
chain and you’ll probably use all of it
[Music]
that’s 10 strands I think that’s gonna
be a pretty good weight we now have 10
strands of paracord and 10 strands of
our ball chain
let’s bundle them together tape them up
attach them to our handle and see if
this whip will work before I tape the
paracord strands together I’m gonna tape
all of the ball chain strands together
hopefully they’ll make sort of one chord
and I can kind of put that in the middle
of the paracord we’ll see if that works
at all start by just laying them all
flat on a piece of tape sticking it down
and roll that up
[Music]
kind of gonna do the same thing with the
paracord strands because I think that
might help me wrap the ball chain up
inside of it not really worrying about
what order these strands are it’s not
necessarily from longest to shortest
it’s all going to be a bundle in the end
[Music]
might be the trickiest part of the whole
build it’s getting this little piece of
paracord end through the little hole
that’s been drilled that wasn’t so hard
[Music]
[Music]
all right we have our many strands of
paracord kind of surrounding the ball
chain next step is to secure this end of
everything to the handle with a whole
lot of electrical tape
[Music]
as soon as I wrap this in athletic tape
it’ll be good to go
but before I do that I like to go around
and use a little bit of electrical tape
every foot and a half or so just to hold
it all together
[Music]
[Music]
there we have it our whip is all wrapped
up it’s nice and flexible which is what
we want we do still have the fall which
is exposed and that’s the part that
moves around really fast so I think
we’re just about ready to test this out
but there is one little addition we’re
gonna make YouTube where Calibur whips
suggested that if we added a cracker to
our whip instead of just having it end
in a fall it would work 50 times better
I think we were getting a pretty good
whip crack when we just had the fall
without a cracker on it but I figure if
we can get any improvement on it let’s
try it
before I was leaving the end of the
paracord unfused so that as it unraveled
a little bit it would act as a cracker a
little bit on its own now because I’m
going to add dedicated cracker to it I
am gonna fuse it shut
as the Calibur whips channel suggests in
their video showing how to add a cracker
instead of tying one on I’m actually
going to put a small hole in the end of
the fall and loop the cracker through
that so it shouldn’t be able to come off
at all I’m using a nail to poke a hole
right through the end of my fall here
and then so it doesn’t close back up
when I take the nail out I’m just gonna
hit it with the lighter again got a nice
little eye hole we should be able to fit
a cracker through there pretty easily
the cracker itself I’m going to make out
of one of the inside strands from our
paracord this piece is about 18 inches
long and it’s definitely more than I’ll
need but I’ll trim off any excess when
I’m finished to start let’s just fold
the piece of nylon string in half and
we’ll hold it by that folded point this
nylon string is twisted together and you
can see that if I twist it one direction
it actually comes apart a little bit so
what I’m going to try and do is using my
thumb and one finger I’m going to roll
the two strands apart and then once
they’re nice and loose I’ll hold them
close together and twist them back
together you can see that by twisting it
apart first it makes it so that when
they twist back together they hold
themselves that way a little bit I’m now
going to move my grip up to where it’s
already twisted and then I’m going to
repeat that process for four or five
inches down this piece of thread if
you’ve seen our video on how to make
rope this is a fairly similar idea we
twist the individual strands so that
they’re under a little bit of tension
and then when they twist together they
stay wound very nicely alright you can
now see that the two separate strands
have become wound together for maybe
five inches so now I’m just going to tie
a figure eight knot right where they’re
finished winding together as I predicted
I have a little bit of extra cord so I’m
just gonna slice that off and now what I
want to do is sort of the opposite of
when I was twisting up I want to untwist
these strands all the way so they just
kind of turned into individual fibers or
fluff there we go we have our cracker so
now let’s take the end of our cracker
and fit it through the eye hole in the
bottom of our fall now we want to
unravel the loop in one end of the
cracker so that we can fit the other end
of the cracker through the hole now when
we pull this tight our cracker is tied
in a knot around the end of our fall and
should never be able to come off unless
it breaks there we go we’ve got our ball
and chain whip we’ve added a cracker
onto it let’s decorate the handle and
then go test it out
[Music]
beautiful let’s go test it out here we
go we’ve got the ball chain whip first
impression is that this definitely is
lighter weight than the whip with the
bb’s in it but we’re gonna see how it
works it does have the cracker on it
maybe that’ll make it easier to whip
keep your eyes safe whoa there it goes
that is pretty easy it’s a little bit
quieter of a sound I think alright let’s
try the other one as a comparison I
[Applause]
don’t know
they both crack pretty easily with just
a little bit of practice I think we can
definitely say that the ball chain whip
is working and I do feel that the
cracker is making it a little bit easier
to crack I don’t know if it’s the whole
weight of the whip or just the
difference in having the cracker but I
think we have a slightly higher pitched
sound with the cracker on this whip
either way it cracks I don’t know if I
can pull this off
that was both there you have it a few
techniques on how to crack a whip and a
way to build your bullwhip a little bit
faster than filling paracord with bee
bees the bee bees in the paracord whip
has a little bit more weight to it which
I enjoy and it costs a little bit less
to build the ball chain whip is
definitely faster to put together
because you don’t have to fill any
paracord with bee bees which can be
pretty time-consuming and of course if
you want to add a cracker onto the end
of your whip it can make it work a
little bit better I wouldn’t necessarily
say that it’s a 50 times improvement
over where I was before but I think it’s
probably about 20 percent easier to
crack with the cracker on it a big shout
out to Adam CWM for the inspiration we
got from his 15 minute bulwark tutorial
he’s a whip tracking professional and
we’ve put a link in the description so
you can go check him out and tell him we
sent you again if you’re gonna be making
a bullwhip make sure you take safety
precautions wearing eyewear and long
sleeves so that if something goes wrong
you don’t injure yourself other than
that this is a really fun build that
doesn’t take too long especially if you
use the chain rather than the bee bees
thanks for joining us for this project
today and we’ll see you in the next one
talk to you then this video like most of
our videos is brought to you by
electrical tape electrical tape it holds
the world together quit grabbing each
other my cracker is tied itself in a
knot around the fall I don’t know if
there was something I was supposed to do
to avoid that probably even with the
cracker around it like that yep hey guys
it’s grant here I’m not in a position to
be in these videos right now but that’s
exactly why Nate’s here nate is the man
he’s got some incredible talent and I
think he could pretty much build
anything so let him know in the comments
what you want to see and he can probably
make it happen
[Music]
know some of you have been wondering
where I’ve gone well I’ve got an update
video coming out in the next week or two
that’ll explain all the answers to your
questions I’ve got a big announcement to
make so keep your eyes out for that
video in the next week or two I’ll see
you there hey guys I’m Nate welcome back
to the workshop not too long ago we
showed you how to build your very own
bullwhip using paracord bb’s athletic
tape and some PVC piping well today
we’re gonna go over a couple of quick
lessons on how to get your bullwhip to
crack well without hurting yourself
first is the Cattleman’s crack to do the
Cattleman’s crack you need to start out
with the whip lying out straight behind
you what I’m going to do is bring my arm
up into the 12 o’clock position and the
whole whip will flip up in the air
around and behind me once the whip is
pointing behind me not when it’s above
me but when it’s behind me I’ll then
bring my arm back down to the 6 o’clock
position the whole whip will curl along
and then at the end when the fall
straightens out that’s where it cracks
the other type of crack I was doing is
called the overhead crack this type of
crack is actually a reversal of which
direction you’re swinging the whip above
your head so to start out I swing
counterclockwise if you’re practicing
this you want to make sure that you can
easily swing it without it touching the
ground anywhere around you and then when
I get to about here and the whip is
pointing straight behind me I will
reverse direction in a clockwise way and
the whip which will be swinging above my
head will get that same curl in it that
it does from the Cattleman’s crack and
then this last one which again I don’t
know if it has a name I just sort of
figured it out it probably does have a
name but I’m pretty new at this sport
all I’m going to do is very quickly
bring my arm forward like I’m throwing a
baseball sort of sidearm and then once
I’m near the front I snap my wrist to
give it a little extra flick to it whip
cracking 101 there you have it that’s
three beginning whip cracks there are
ways that you can go in routines from
one crack into another and there are
probably a dozen different ways to crack
the whip that I don’t know yet I’m just
learning this myself we also had one
viewer who directed me to another video
that suggested a faster way
the Polish it uses some ball chain
instead of bb’s fit down inside the
paracord so we’re gonna try throwing one
of those together and see how well it
works just like in the other video my
first piece of paracord is going to be
long enough that it can stick out the
back by about a foot you’ll go the
length of the handle and then it will
have eight feet of paracord in front of
the handle
there’s our eight-foot mark use some
tape to mark where the back of our long
piece of paracord leaves the handle of
our whip now I need nine more pieces of
paracord which will get progressively
shorter as they go down the length of
the whip we want our second piece of
paracord to be 18 inches shorter than
our longest piece and after that every
piece will shrink by about eight inches
[Music]
images shorter cut April 10 there we go
we’ve got our 10 strands of paracord so
let’s add some ball chain for weight now
the ball chain is clearly not gonna have
the same amount of weight per strand as
bb’s inside of paracord so we’re gonna
try doubling the amount of chains that
we have maybe more I don’t want to go as
long as our longest or even our second
longest cord but I am gonna measure out
our third longest piece of cord to make
a chain that length now that piece of
chain is about six feet long and this
roll of chain comes with 30 feet on it
I’m going to add another piece but to
make sure we keep the taper of the whip
nice and natural I’m gonna shorten this
one by about four inches I’m just gonna
keep going adding pieces of chain
shortening it by about 4 inches every
time I have two rolls of this metal
chain and you’ll probably use all of it
[Music]
that’s 10 strands I think that’s gonna
be a pretty good weight we now have 10
strands of paracord and 10 strands of
our ball chain
let’s bundle them together tape them up
attach them to our handle and see if
this whip will work before I tape the
paracord strands together I’m gonna tape
all of the ball chain strands together
hopefully they’ll make sort of one chord
and I can kind of put that in the middle
of the paracord we’ll see if that works
at all start by just laying them all
flat on a piece of tape sticking it down
and roll that up
[Music]
kind of gonna do the same thing with the
paracord strands because I think that
might help me wrap the ball chain up
inside of it not really worrying about
what order these strands are it’s not
necessarily from longest to shortest
it’s all going to be a bundle in the end
[Music]
might be the trickiest part of the whole
build it’s getting this little piece of
paracord end through the little hole
that’s been drilled that wasn’t so hard
[Music]
[Music]
all right we have our many strands of
paracord kind of surrounding the ball
chain next step is to secure this end of
everything to the handle with a whole
lot of electrical tape
[Music]
as soon as I wrap this in athletic tape
it’ll be good to go
but before I do that I like to go around
and use a little bit of electrical tape
every foot and a half or so just to hold
it all together
[Music]
[Music]
there we have it our whip is all wrapped
up it’s nice and flexible which is what
we want we do still have the fall which
is exposed and that’s the part that
moves around really fast so I think
we’re just about ready to test this out
but there is one little addition we’re
gonna make YouTube where Calibur whips
suggested that if we added a cracker to
our whip instead of just having it end
in a fall it would work 50 times better
I think we were getting a pretty good
whip crack when we just had the fall
without a cracker on it but I figure if
we can get any improvement on it let’s
try it
before I was leaving the end of the
paracord unfused so that as it unraveled
a little bit it would act as a cracker a
little bit on its own now because I’m
going to add dedicated cracker to it I
am gonna fuse it shut
as the Calibur whips channel suggests in
their video showing how to add a cracker
instead of tying one on I’m actually
going to put a small hole in the end of
the fall and loop the cracker through
that so it shouldn’t be able to come off
at all I’m using a nail to poke a hole
right through the end of my fall here
and then so it doesn’t close back up
when I take the nail out I’m just gonna
hit it with the lighter again got a nice
little eye hole we should be able to fit
a cracker through there pretty easily
the cracker itself I’m going to make out
of one of the inside strands from our
paracord this piece is about 18 inches
long and it’s definitely more than I’ll
need but I’ll trim off any excess when
I’m finished to start let’s just fold
the piece of nylon string in half and
we’ll hold it by that folded point this
nylon string is twisted together and you
can see that if I twist it one direction
it actually comes apart a little bit so
what I’m going to try and do is using my
thumb and one finger I’m going to roll
the two strands apart and then once
they’re nice and loose I’ll hold them
close together and twist them back
together you can see that by twisting it
apart first it makes it so that when
they twist back together they hold
themselves that way a little bit I’m now
going to move my grip up to where it’s
already twisted and then I’m going to
repeat that process for four or five
inches down this piece of thread if
you’ve seen our video on how to make
rope this is a fairly similar idea we
twist the individual strands so that
they’re under a little bit of tension
and then when they twist together they
stay wound very nicely alright you can
now see that the two separate strands
have become wound together for maybe
five inches so now I’m just going to tie
a figure eight knot right where they’re
finished winding together as I predicted
I have a little bit of extra cord so I’m
just gonna slice that off and now what I
want to do is sort of the opposite of
when I was twisting up I want to untwist
these strands all the way so they just
kind of turned into individual fibers or
fluff there we go we have our cracker so
now let’s take the end of our cracker
and fit it through the eye hole in the
bottom of our fall now we want to
unravel the loop in one end of the
cracker so that we can fit the other end
of the cracker through the hole now when
we pull this tight our cracker is tied
in a knot around the end of our fall and
should never be able to come off unless
it breaks there we go we’ve got our ball
and chain whip we’ve added a cracker
onto it let’s decorate the handle and
then go test it out
[Music]
beautiful let’s go test it out here we
go we’ve got the ball chain whip first
impression is that this definitely is
lighter weight than the whip with the
bb’s in it but we’re gonna see how it
works it does have the cracker on it
maybe that’ll make it easier to whip
keep your eyes safe whoa there it goes
that is pretty easy it’s a little bit
quieter of a sound I think alright let’s
try the other one as a comparison I
[Applause]
don’t know
they both crack pretty easily with just
a little bit of practice I think we can
definitely say that the ball chain whip
is working and I do feel that the
cracker is making it a little bit easier
to crack I don’t know if it’s the whole
weight of the whip or just the
difference in having the cracker but I
think we have a slightly higher pitched
sound with the cracker on this whip
either way it cracks I don’t know if I
can pull this off
that was both there you have it a few
techniques on how to crack a whip and a
way to build your bullwhip a little bit
faster than filling paracord with bee
bees the bee bees in the paracord whip
has a little bit more weight to it which
I enjoy and it costs a little bit less
to build the ball chain whip is
definitely faster to put together
because you don’t have to fill any
paracord with bee bees which can be
pretty time-consuming and of course if
you want to add a cracker onto the end
of your whip it can make it work a
little bit better I wouldn’t necessarily
say that it’s a 50 times improvement
over where I was before but I think it’s
probably about 20 percent easier to
crack with the cracker on it a big shout
out to Adam CWM for the inspiration we
got from his 15 minute bulwark tutorial
he’s a whip tracking professional and
we’ve put a link in the description so
you can go check him out and tell him we
sent you again if you’re gonna be making
a bullwhip make sure you take safety
precautions wearing eyewear and long
sleeves so that if something goes wrong
you don’t injure yourself other than
that this is a really fun build that
doesn’t take too long especially if you
use the chain rather than the bee bees
thanks for joining us for this project
today and we’ll see you in the next one
talk to you then this video like most of
our videos is brought to you by
electrical tape electrical tape it holds
the world together quit grabbing each
other my cracker is tied itself in a
knot around the fall I don’t know if
there was something I was supposed to do
to avoid that probably even with the
cracker around it like that yep hey guys
it’s grant here I’m not in a position to
be in these videos right now but that’s
exactly why Nate’s here nate is the man
he’s got some incredible talent and I
think he could pretty much build
anything so let him know in the comments
what you want to see and he can probably
make it happen
[Music]
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