Professor Alain Goriely might not be Calamity Jane riding the Deadwood Stage but he could just be one of the first people to truly understand what makes a "whip crack-away". As a staple element of ...

Among the special skills demonstrated by actors in regional theatre in the past few years: playing gin rummy, cracking a whip, riding a horse, rope tricks, roller-skating, fly-fishing, knitting, ...

He was practising his whip-cracking as my parents Ingrid and Peter, my three sisters Jessica, Gemima, Monique, and I, looked on in fascination. It was 2007, I was 14 years old and we were in Timber ...

The noise at the tip is milder than a firecracker, but the tiny flicker at the end makes it seem otherwise. Sixty feet away from the tennis courts at Dolores Park, the popping is audible over the ball ...

In the right hands, bullwhips can halve playing cards or deliver earsplitting cracks. And then there’s April Choi, a whip performer. She can play Jenga with a whip, flicking individual bricks from a ...

At the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, one of John Cantin's martial arts instructors showed up with a bullwhip and asked if anyone wanted to learn how to make it crack. "I could not get it to ...

Jacques Ze Whipper quickly became one of most popular performers on the renaissance fair circuit. Now, he’s unlocking an adjacent fan base working with “Dungeons & Dragons The Twenty-Sided ...