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Can you do more videos on setting up legit swings..??

But it was for safety ;) haha

Yeah i feel it to because the 2 guys not strapped in

It was the most dangerous moment I saw too All the other stuff looked crazy but you guys know what you’re doing so risk was all mitigated. During the bag drop seemed the part that could have turned into a PSA

No shit

Yah if the rope stretched around one of there ankles it could have pulled them off :/

Shut the hell up sometimes

How do you test that people have enough strength to hold onto the bar? I presume you've seen the "fat people fail videos" of their hands slipping off. Now I'm scared to try, and I'm skinny. :) Come to think of it, I'd use opposing grips, that much safer.

@@markus717 Hmm. Like buying a yacht, if you have to ask... ;-) In this case, I did gymnastics for a long time as an adult. The guy who rigged it was a college gymnast. We were all young, and in great shape. Nobody slipped off because their hands gave out. And I was a lot stronger than most there. Practical advice, do pullups somewhere. Graduate to weighted pullups and hangs, but care for your shoulders. Lift smooth, not bouncy-bounce with anything over 15-20 lbs. 15 years ago, I banged out pullup sets of 12-14 reps with 70 lbs on a chain belt and had fun. Now? I had to back off to max 20 lbs because my rotator cuffs hurt too much and we'll see if I get back to where I was, ever. (That was precipitated by adding butterfly stroke to my swimming for a good sprint in the water. Problem is, I didn't have the shoulder girdle flexibility I used to have, and you need great flexibility for butterfly. Yeah, I knew, but ignored it. We do that.) Deadlift without grips (I never use grips) is good for hand strength. But these days I max out at a few pounds over my body weight. I'm not going for heavy lift, I want good overall and a balanced front-back musculature. Getting strong hands and arms for functional fitness---It's practice. A couple, maybe 3 times a week, and sometimes work with a friend to max out so you have trouble holding a fork at dinner. Have fun with it. Don't sweat any one or two workouts if they're not great. And never do high skill, must-succeed moves after heavy calisthenics, unless something forces you into it. In gymnastics it was always, heavy stretching and light calisthenics to warm up about 30 minutes. Basic tumbling for 20-30 minutes, then get to skills we were working on for an hour. Last 30-45 minutes was calisthenics to the max. Do some skills and testing workouts, pullups, climbing wall, etc. Develop confidence. Trust me, I know what it's like to be really scared of something. If that's where you're at, best to be with a coach who knows what can go wrong, and will spot you, make sure it's safe. In a mountaineering situation, I would never have thought of using a bar. Hmm. But if I did, I'd have a separate safety harness, just like you have for slackline.

Pro tip: Climb the rock and paraglide from it... ;-)

BrazBlue damn right rock climbing > all other sports period. Get triggered.

I'll stick to being the king of my local school yard swing set. All those guys over there think I'm the boss cuz I can slack chain it going so high, then I really wow them when I shoot myself 10-15' off those suckers. If anyone shows them this video, my legacy is dead. Not bragging but I can even reverse leg pump to get myself going, but sometimes I like to mix it up and have someone push me & run underneath...That's when we're really putting on a show. This video was kind of cool I guess, if you're into weak types of adventures. lol This is sick guys!! I pray 1 day we don't see a video of this failing. Be safe & best of luck!!

Dang, that’s jumping to hell

Agreed. I mean I bet rope jumping is a blast, but all that effort, gear, risk mitigation and attention doesn't seem worth it tbh. Not regularly anyway.

Yep, thats why they should've always been with a safety line

@@mickey321qw yea the safety line wouldn’t worked, you would have lost your leg from that fall and probably more

@@nicocombs4990 The safety line would have hopefully stopped you from going over the edge with the bag, with or without your legs attached.

That's right if their leg gets entangled it's game over!

Please tell me how a harness would help if your leg got stuck. I wouldn't want to live through that. And most personal anchors can't handle that force anyways. Those guys should have been further back, not wearing harnesses.

@@HowNOT2 gotta agree with you there, should have used something other than their bodies to push the bag off

@@HowNOT2 So you're saying personal anchors cant handle the weight of a bag of rocks? If that's the case I would be worried about trying to use one to anchor myself.

@@DJcyberslash I think he was trying to say is that the personal harness wouldn't stand a chance in case you got stuck to the bag's rope while it's at the peak of it's force/speed. The harness would break or your leg would be shredded to pieces...

it felt safe enough. We have even better systems now that make every redundancy have full efficiency so we need less of them. Hope to put out a video about all that this fall... get it :)

Thanks. See our newest rope jump video just put out this week.

James Madelin thanks. We try to be careful... after all I am jumping off a cliff! :)

Hey man, if us canyoneers want to be sketch, let us be sketch

Misapplication of the saying.

@Got_nuffin_on_me Of course lol

i could not agree more. my hands are still wet

@@stephenparker9188 that's kinda gay

What could possibly go wrong?

Or use the ranger parachute cord method.

see my instagram for last weekend's stunt :) instagram.com/hownottohighline/

There is nothing to secure us behind that rope. If secured and your foot gets stuck you will wish you were dead. Ropes don't jump backwards. We make it sound like a bigger deal so it is entertaining :).

@@HowNOT2 "Wish you were dead" != "dead", but you know more about this than I do.

Yeah, totally. That was pretty farking stupid. Much better ways to push the bag off than what was shown on vid.

Sirmellowman they didn’t have the push rock bag man tied into anything ? Shit

probably should have just tossed the rope overboard first, so it wasn't flipping all over the place while the bag was falling

you can see a sweet one on @slackinhigh posted sept 20, 2017

erik clifton because we were not tying into the end and a figure 8 would require a biner which is another point of failure... the short answer is that we were trying to get fancy ;)

And between thier legs hahaha

I use my rope every time I leave the cliff ;). Ideally the main rope would be changed every 10 jumps but that's not realistic unless someone is bank rolling it. I did not say this, but we used the same 2 ropes for about 50 jumps the year prior, not recommended. Check out the forces a rope jump creates today's episode that I just released 1 minute ago and then you can decide what you feel comfortable with! Thanks!

Thx! And I've just watched it :-)

D O M I N I K XIII how many times do u think a rope should be jumped on?

Discussed it yesterday with a pro climber and skydiving rigger and both agreed that the force you measured is not that big deal for the rope and the stress on the rope is not on a small spot (sharp edge). So the amount of stress a rope had should be visible on the outer sleeve like common ... We searched a Dyno like you used in your newest video where did you get it?

My concern for rope replacement is that it loses stretch over time and the more static the rope the harder it is on your body and the more kn's you will see on the rope and then if you get to a high enough kn, then your rope breaks. The dyno I have is from Rock Exotica called the "Enforcer". Balancecommunity.com sells them

You're right, the greatest risk of any rope swings that are rigged well are the people hanging out at the cliff edge not tied in.

Some people do 100 before replacing, i'm not sure if I'm ok with that but they won't break the way we are using them... but we have to be mindful about not using them as normal climbing ropes afterwards because the dynamic stretch has been compromised. Our highlines absorb a lot of the stretch too and we swing so the stretch in the rope isn't as critical as a lead fall climbing.

that question clearly signifies you are not ready. Please know how to rig a highline really really well before you attach ropes to it and jump off things. My videos have a lot of resources

good thing i passed the class!

Radosław Jaroszek not really. What people do on their exit is what makes each jump personal and he borrowed that cam from a friend that day and was super stoked to have it... therefore he jumped with it haha

Not the same place. Late, not so great Dano.

Because you've watched too many pirate movies where the foot get caught in anchor rope and pulls the pirate off the ship ;)