🪢 Punching Above Your Weight: Suspension for a Bottom Bigger Than You
📅 Saturday, July 19
🕐 1:00–6:30 PM (Doors open at 12:45 | Doors close at 1:10)
📍 Devil Mask Studio
🎟️ $125–200 per tying pair | $75 to audit | Memberships accepted
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Want to suspend someone who’s taller or weighs more than you? You can do it.
Forget brute strength – this class is about working smarter, not harder.
In Punching Above Your Weight, we’ll explore rigging strategies designed to help smaller-bodied riggers lift bigger-bodied partners with ease, grace, and sustainability.
We’ll break down concepts of mechanical advantage, strategic harness placement, and how to use gravity to your benefit rather than battling it. You’ll learn how to troubleshoot on the fly, avoid unnecessary strain, and create clean, adaptable sequences that support both your partner’s body and your own.
What We’ll Cover:
- Techniques for lifting partners with minimal strain
- Harness selection & rigging strategy for size differentials
- Hands-on drills and troubleshooting
- Demos, feedback, and peer support
This class welcomes all body sizes and orientations! Our goal is to make rope more accessible, sustainable, and empowering for everyone in the scene.
Prerequisites:
Tops should be comfortable with:
- Attaching uplines and executing lock-offs
- Building both chest and hip harnesses that are load-tested from the side and from the back
Bottoms should:
- Have experience with partial or full suspension
- Be able to communicate effectively while in the air
You Should Bring:
- Rope for your preferred harnesses + at least 4 uplines
- Carabiners or suspension ring (single-point setup only)
- A safety tool or strap cutter
- Openness to adapt, experiment, and problem-solve
Note: We’ll be working on carabiner-based single points. Bamboo is outside the scope of this workshop.
This is a Flight-level Studio Series class – expect to be challenged and supported in equal measure. You’ll leave with new tools, clearer strategy, and more confidence in your rigging practice, regardless of size.