Great photos! Looks like a good time had by all--except maybe the "lamb" in the first pic. That's quite a kink in the caber in the last photo. Highland heavy athletes out there: would having a bend in the caber like that change the way you throw it? Or how it lands?
A caber with a big kink in it is very hard to steady in your hands. You pick it, and it twists. That makes it tough to control. So the goal is to try to find the neutral point while it's still on the ground, the orientation where you pick it and it DOESN'T twist. ... easier said than done.
Also, when a caber like that lands on the ground, it bounces and twists immediately, so it's very hard to judge the difference between, say an 11:30 and a 12:00.
Several of our practice cabers in our Club are tweaky like that one. The logic being, that if you can control and turn a caber like that, then picking up a nice straight one on Game Day is a piece of cake.
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