I was wondering how those of you who use swing flags make them. I've heard of people using shorter metal poles, but when I used them, we just used thin PVC piping. Also, do you weight them?

There are so many different ways to make swing flags. Some of them use a baton, some use a pole (doesn't matter what the pole's made out of), some have a chain instead of a pole, and some don't have anything - just a weight sewn into the end of the flag.

And they come in a huge range of sizes, too. They can be really tiny or really big. You generally don't need to weight swing flags because you can't spin them anyway.

Our guard used chain ones. But those were getting old so we just made a bunch of swing flags out of PVC piping.

^ Yeah my guard madde ours out of PVC piping as well.
They work pretty good.

we make ours using wooden dowels, they work really well they even toss pretty well which I was impressed with

our guard used PVC pipes too...and our flags were huge!! lol the band got mad at us because when it was raining, the flags would sling water all over them. haha

Our guard made swing flags out of wooden dowels, and recently we started using swing flags on chains.....

The swing flags we use are made out of the more durable PVC pipe and are about 4 1/2 ft long. The recent trend is to make the swing flag huge for a better effect. The silk is as long or longer as a regular 6ft pole flag.

i think it wiuld be so cool to use chains...i would totally hurt myself in the beginning though. haha

^^ yeah it was cool using chains but i did hit myself with the chain a few times it kinda hurt lol!

Well we use professional swing poles. They have a rubber handle on the bottom and a removable plastic stopper on the top. they are very dangerous though. I hit a girl in the head and gave her a concusion. I told her multple times that she was in the wrong place. Our sponsor would continuw to nag me because I didn't do my moves full out. So I got tired of it all and did my move full out and hit her in the head. She never missed that sopt again.

^^ lol! I used to hit my boyfriend in the head with my swing flags every show...and once the silk caught him in the eye. LOL!