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I'll make sure to talk to her about her circulation.

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ORIGINAL: Thaz

Check out the ropes purpose and what the loading means. Climbing rope can come in static or shock loading. Ie it can be built to take a steady weight...as in fixed rope or abseil work or can be designed to absorbe a fall. Using shock weight designed rope for static loads means it will stretch and 'spring'. Which might be what you want although I'd personally prefer not to have that happen...but as another poster has already said be carefull of using that on human skin (not saying you do Maria, I'm more expanding on what you've said).

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Another thing to be very carefull of is not fastening carabiners etc properly. That loading can drop to half or less of what it says if they are 'open'.
If you're using it for full suspension I'd strongly recomend a screw gate locking crab rather than a snap gate.

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ORIGINAL: Guilty1974
Although I agree with most of what you say, this is absolute baloney. Flexible and slender helps, but is not necessary. Fit certainly helps for a longer suspension, but not for suspension per se. Riggers who tell you fatties can't be suspended usually are a) not very well trained, b) lazy, c) not turned on by fat people and often all of the above. It's everyone's right not to want to suspend bigger people, but to say they can't be suspended is just a lame excuse.