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ORIGINAL: MariaB
The Midori accident happened a year ago. We are still waiting for the promised 'fully investigated report'.
These are some words from her blog; "I was reminded of a single, brutal truth — a truth of which few dare to speak: if you do kink long enough, you will have a scene go bad, sometimes horrifically bad."
What she should be doing is using this bad experience as a future foundation of good judgment. Instead she is excusing herself and saying, she was just lucky that this was her first accident in 20 years. It was an accident made from poor judgment. The sky didn't fall on her head, the floor didn't cave in beneath her. The accident happened because she didn't do her risk management. She was/is continually pushing boundaries whilst becoming complacent with her knots and gear.
Surely as a mentor of so many, she should own up to her mistakes and come back to us with a detailed account of what happened and why.
Another suspension expert who is up there with the gods of rope
http://www.blogropemarks.com/pivotx/?e=269 Tells us that he will be looking into what happened. That was a year ago and As to date, he hasn't bothered to find out or at least let us know and yet he continues to do his performances, presumably in the hope that people have now forgotten.
Another board I am on has a "banging your head against a wall" smiley, I feel that would be fitting to describe my opinion of that statement!
So they lift someone up by a single rope, of unknown quality, with no redundancy and a basically unknown "impact" force on a static rope and then they're surprised when it all goes Pete Tong?
And then they go "oh, shit happens" as a response. For fucks sake.
Now in my world at work if you showed that particular risk assessment when some poor fucker had ended up with 5 tonnes of machinery on their head, the health and safety lot would quite rightly be using me as a dartboard.
The bloke in that blog, fair enough he goes into a bit more detail about WHY the rope broke, but he seems to completely miss the point that there are myriad other design points in that system that could have made that failure a minor annoyance rather than a possible threat to the poor girls life!
It seems to me that they let the traditional japanese-ness of their "art" get in the way of the realities of the situation. And if you can't figure out what will happen when a bit of string snaps then you have no business designing life critical systems. Maybe they could still tie the pretty knots and get a grown up to figure out the rest.
In summation, risking your own neck is not big or clever* but can be quite amusing, risking someone else's neck is just being a cunt.
*Like diving the Doria on a rebreather with zero redundant gas. Or riding fast bikes like an absolute arsehole . Or solo climbing. None big or clever, but none will kill anyone else when it all goes wrong!
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