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My experience is on high-performance sailboats rather than acrobatics, but single-rope seems to be the standard. You could imagine having two ropes for redunda
by jzwinck 11y ago
My experience is on high-performance sailboats rather than acrobatics, but single-rope seems to be the standard. You could imagine having two ropes for redundancy, but then not only would swiveling become more complex (at the sheaves, not the swivel), you would have something like twice the rope weight damping the movements of the acrobat.
Coming from a sailing background, another question would be: could they use synthetic/polymer ropes? Where cost is not much of a concern, things like Dyneema have taken over in a lot of roles.
- jacquesm 11y agoFunny, I was writing that with my stint for a sailmaker in the back of my mind and yes, single rope is the standard. But in sailing gravity is not always luring to catch you if something goes wrong (though you can absolutely die from an accident during sailing if a line (or a stay) breaks). Probably a better comparison would be mountaineering and there there are plenty of people that climb without ropes at all...