SSW001.Simpleshot.indd 50 20/07/2018 16:33 S S 1 6 : 3 3 SS 16:33 COMPANY PROFILE 050 SlingshotWorld thing. Let alone going on a downhill course and getting big air on one chuffing wheel with a fat tyre and a brake lever positioned underneath the saddle at the front. This has to be a design flaw. For in order to go down hilling on an All Terrain Fat Tyre unicycle, you must have balls of pure steel and they must get in the way of braking, no? Anyway, I digress, for as well as being an incredible art-struck craftsman slingshot maker, Nathan Masters is also the guv’nor of Simple Shot who supply top end tested-concept slingshots at mass produced prices. Found at https://simple- shot.com/ it is the home of the finest innovations in slingshot design. With all sorts of frames and cool ammo products. Now, there is no point in my wasting precious space here in simply telling you stuff that is on the site, as it is superb. Whizzy and interactive, once you engage with Simple Shot, you can get discounts from time to time and go up the levels of fandom with them, as you choose. It isn’t naggy and is easy to turn off. But don’t - as it is the smartest set of stuff. And I have been working online for a decade. The video resources are also awesome. So enough pure praise singing about the company, what about that last big question? Is he any good …as a shot? And that’s the most cool part of all. For Nathan Masters is what we in the UK call a Dead Shot. Nathan has been the winningest (Americanism - permitted!) tournament target shooter in the USA for ever. Taking glory at the East Coast Slingshot Tournament (ECST) four years running. But then came the Slingshot World Cup. More than twenty countries. Some, like Brazil, represented by one man who came, all the way alone, to the Chinese. Several dozen thousand competed in heats nationwide to get on their team. As they shot and live-streamed themselves to Weibo (Chinese social media) each had around 130,000 people watching. The Spaniards are so obsessed there were stress related issues in their party. The competition for global ranking was insane, with 200 of the best Richard “Blue” Skeen- grade shooters in the whole planet there. And Nathan Masters was in the top ten at 9th, which is bloody incredible considering the beyond-UK Eastbound jet lag he would have been soaked in. You try target shooting at three a.m, body clock time! So meet Nathan Masters, longbow maker and archer, slingshot art-craftsman and technical innovator, dog owner, fisherman, all terrain unicyclist.. and Slingshot Svengali. FlippinOut XP100. USA Slingshot Of The Year 2013. A starship design. Ninth in the World, USA ECST 4x Champ.. and a tin can.. SSW001.Simpleshot.indd 50 20/07/2018 16:33