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How to Rig a Rope Swing as seen on Pushing the Line - Discovery Plus
🕑 Added 2021-06-09 14:11:29 +0000 UTCPlease don’t rope jump! But this is HOW if you don’t listen. I believe it’s better to share safety systems than to withhold it if people are going to do what they are going to do. If we glamorize it on a tv show, we can at least show what goes into it. Please don’t rope jump!
You can see us rope jumping on episode 2 of Pushing the Line streaming now on Discovery Plus. https://www.discovery.com/videos/pushing-the-line-this-is-highlining-5227100 This is that rope jump. Read a little bit about it and behind the scenes on our website https://www.slackline.com/pushing-the-line. We include the prep, the rigging and the forces we got after jumping. I did this with Brett Stewart and Jaco Santulli who have built Studio Page, a better platform for creators. https://studio.page/. We did NOT use a haul system and so we ascended the rope which a whole different skill set. Haul systems can be seen in our other rope jump videos.
Our results: The MBS of the entire system is approximately 44kn or 10,000lbf. I’m 160ish lbs and we got 2.79kn (627lbf) shared by both ropes and the main webbing got 3.36kn (755lbf). Brett is 240lbs and he got 3.99 (896lbf) shared by both ropes and the main webbing got 3.98 (894lbf).
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00:00 Intro 02:09 Prepping in basement 12:13 Traveling to Fruitbowl 15:26 Getting Line Across 16:57 Building Anchor A 19:52 Building Anchor B 22:00 Tensioning Line 25:01 Throwing Bag & Safety 27:35 Jumps & Forces 30:07 Conclusion 31:39 Ending
Comments
Dustin Higdon
Well, alright. Know the rules like a pro so you can break them like artists then. Fair enough.
Andy was our bag, but that is because we all have rigged that rope swing A LOT and know if the ropes are tight we don't hit the ground. I was trying to be a good example in my episode for anyone newish. Dramatized tv is more of a reflection of the audience more than producers adding it because they are bored. No one watches boring tv and so I think the sprinkled just enough drama to make it watchable but it's nice to put out episodes in conjunction with theirs to un-glamorize some of what we did.
