Shinju, Suspension Shinju, Evaluating a Hard Point
Added 2018-08-04 23:44:03 +0000 UTCO...M...Goodness.
It's been a heck a month. I began the Odyssey of building out material on suspensions and it snowballed. Every time I think through and research a topic, a couple more topics seem to pop up--like an intellectual hydra.
So the list of articles and tutorials that I think need to be built to handle the topic of suspension has been growing. You can keep tabs on my current thoughts and plans in the "Plans" section of:
Over the course of July, I added:
- The Shinju - a classic chest harness that is good for suspensions and avoids the major problem of radial nerve compression that we often see when people use a TK for suspensions
- The Suspension Shinju - a variation on the classic Shinju that is even better for suspensions. It interweaves the various elements even more so that tension on any of them transmits more evenly to all the others
- What kind of rope you want for suspension support lines (The answer may surprise you!)
- And I worked up a massive article on evaluating the hard point itself. This one will take you some time to go through, but the material is super important to understand before you trust your partner's safety to that hard point.
- I also added a non-suspension tutorial: an update to the Bikini Harness that distributes the knots across that back more effectively so that you can lay your partner on their back more comfortably.
My normal pace for new tutorials is one every 2-3 weeks, so this has been a busy month! But I know interest is high.
August is going to be massively busy for me in my day job/personal life, so I will need to get back to more of a regular pace, but my primary goal for TheDuchy is to keep pushing on the rest of the foundational articles (general suspension safety, the swiss seat, handling your suspension support lines, others). After that, we will get to the tutorials on actual suspensions themselves! Partial suspensions, seated suspensions, etc.
Thank you all so much for your ideas, your questions, and your support!
Have a great August!
-Lazarus
Comments
It falls like that to provide a greater weave between the points on the lower chest and those same up-down strands running across the upper chest band. Take a look at how the ropes are running as they move away from the sternum and then follow them up and you’ll see that it provides a bit of a weave. It’s not hyper critical however. If you prefer a symmetric approach, there’s no particular issue in doing that (some people even do a slight weave of the shoulder straps through that upper chest strap for that purpose)
Lazarus Redmayne
2018-11-17 22:45:19 +0000 UTC
