3 ms·
He was referencing this statement from the GP: "Looped around a waist and the same person can get up to about 1.0-1.5x with cleats on turf." Point is, if tug-o
by kenbellows 10y ago
He was referencing this statement from the GP: "Looped around a waist and the same person can get up to about 1.0-1.5x with cleats on turf." Point is, if tug-of-war players have been known to lose hands because the rope was wrapped around them, do you really want to see what happens when you wrap it around your waist? Maybe it's safer because your body is much thicker than your wrist, but is that really an experiment you want to run?
- fr0sty 10y ago> do you really want to see what happens when you wrap it around your waist? The last player on each end can safely wrap the rope around themselves if they like. The rope behind them is slack, so the only tension on the rope is the tension they put on it themselves. Where people get into trouble is when they are somewhere in the middle where there is (significant)tension being applied to their section of rope by people on either side.
- swsieber 10y agoNo, not even then - in the article is mentioned the anchors being pulled through (the rest of the people) and getting lacerations
- pilom 10y agoThis is exactly what I was referencing, in the wikipedia page you can see a 1904 olympic competition where the anchor man has safely wrapped the rope partially around his waist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tug_of_war#/media/File:1904_tug_of_war.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tug_of_war#/media/File:1904_tu...
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]