I’ll start out with a disclaimer: I am not an engineer or physicist! That said, I have a logical mind and can apply it practically…and there’s Google. I started thinking about rope breaks and it seemed to me that friction is a big factor. It has been speculated, not unreasonably, that the ‘sawing’ action of …
Last night at BOUND, we had a rope break incident. Fortunately, nobody got hurt. Wildties was finishing an astounding show, full of energy and dramatic transitions, when he decided to end on a single ankle suspension but as he began the lift, the rope snapped. Here’s exactly what happened. Gorgone, his model, was on the …