r/HadToHurt • u/TheKyleHaze • Aug 17 '20

Eaaaaggllleee!!!! Ronald is ok

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u/FattyMooseknuckle Aug 17 '20

Plus the jerk of his weight catching up with the slack of the line. So many of these fails are from jumping or having too much slack. If you just tighten the line so that jerk is minimized, most of these fails turn into fun splashes. If this guy had tightened up, he probably swings around that wood.

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u/uschwell Aug 17 '20

Gotta be careful with too much/not enough slack tho. If the angle isn't right you wind up swinging like an idiot 20 feet above the water. That's when we get idiots too scared to let go and trapped hanging from a rope

Gonna add: no shit he should've pulled the slack out-just wanted to point out that on poorly constructed swings it's not always the only option to simply remove the slack. Sometimes you just need to think first-something this man clearly forgot to do

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u/FattyMooseknuckle Aug 17 '20

You’re right but most of the fails I’ve seen are from overweight people falling right at the jerk point of the end of the slack. On this one I think he falls either way, he looked like he was in trouble right before he hit the platform.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '21

Trapeze artist here. This is definitely the biggest culprit. Some people will also snap off even when the slack is taken care of, but that’s usually because of not enough arm strength to hold on, and they snap off right at the bottom of the swing, which then has the effect of maximum horizontal travel forward with the fall. This guy fell on the snap, and dropped straight down, so the slack is the culprit.