Hey Rainbow and welcome to the community, Even after years of tying I realise how much more there is left to learn and "expert" is very much a relative term. I sometimes feel like the longer we tie, the more we realise how much we dont know, but that keeps us motivated to explore and be inspired by other peoples rope that we see so you are definitely not alone. Congratulations on achieving your rope goal for the year though, hosting a space for people to enjoy rope is no easy task, especially in a small community, but its great to bring people together to learn and just enjoy nerding out about rope

Hey David and welcome to the community.

I think thats a really great question around your intentional learning progress. For me personally I spent the first year or so of tying in the pattern repetition mpde that fuoco mentioned. However i did soon learn that this didnt help deepen my understanding when i tried lots of different types of harnesses and patterns. I then moved i to more deep dive learning, so choosing a small number of harnesses that fulfilled my current needs (usually some restriction of limbs as i wasnt focussed on suspension at that time) and i tied them as much as i could, understanding how they function and their compenent parts, like what frictipns amd hitches i was using and why. This meant as i looked at new patterns,i looked for familiar frictions and hitches and this helped lead me to exploring new patterns with familiar skills

Aspero have you guys seen the charibari account on Instagram.....

Looks amazing, how was your first suspension experience? Did you learn anything new about yourself in rope compared to doing floor based ? 

Wow, did you tie the roof instalation too? 

Such a cool performance to have on the site, thank you so much for sharing this with us (and im super happy to welcome you into the community too 😀 )

Hi BonDash apologies I didnt respond to this sooner. You can turn off Community notifications in your profile settings which should reduce the number of notifications you are getting. We are exploring options to be able to set channel based notifications so you can just get notifications for community channels you want to keep up to date with. 

Exploding harnesses are something ive never played around with but i do love the drama of that "oh shit" moment when everything suddenly falls apart. One of my favourite things in rope is playing with contrasts and this really is an example of the extreme contrast of restraint and freedom 

Aspero oh thats awesome, love that you were exploring ways that you can use rope to demonstrate its impact on the body in such an inventive way, and using such an allegorical song is really quite brilliant.

ø Zero ø its definitely a deep topic to get into, but as Gorgone mentions in the Geeking about TK collection, the TK/Gote is one of the ties that really touches upon all areas of your rope craft. If you can tie a really good gote, then your other tying will dramatically improve too, from rope handling, to problem solving, body awareness and friction choices.