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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After almost three years of quiet, whip-cracking is back in downtown Reno. In 2021, the Reno City Council passed an ordinance banning the possession and use of whips without a permit after receiving ...