Pole Climbing Championships - Straight Up
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2020-07-24に共有
The sport of pole climbing is one that tests balance, strength, endurance, and flat-out determination. Competitors don harnesses, helmets, spiked shoes and use climbing equipment to run vertically up a pole while a clock times their efforts.
The event saw competitors run up a 25-metre (82-feet) timber pole using spiked shoes and a hooped "strop" wrapped around the pole for assistance.
Hosted in Warwickshire, organisers sourced 30-metres Douglas fir poles from a plantation in Wales. They were dug 4.3 metres into the ground.
The sport stems from North America where lumberjacks would scale some of the largest trees in the forest, sending off the branches with their axes as they went up the massive trees.
The sport is becoming highly specialised with a world-class field looking at the tiniest details in training, equipment and nutrition to give them the winning edge.
コメント (10)
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I wish my brother still had this job again he was much more happier than he is now.
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Nice to see that they used a safety back-up rope and, man, that 83 year old killed it:)
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I saw a clip of this being done in the States. They raced both up and down and with no safety rope.
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Cool though
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Ooop wrong show
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This is what electricians are trained to do when trying to climb up telegraph poles to fix the wires. But this has been a competition with blood & guts and no fear of heights.
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Does the tether help in the climb at all or is it solely for a safety backup?
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Where do I get some of those climbing shoes with the front points
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Alguien piensa lo mismo que yo? 😏
