reuseyourgear

A huge thanks to Chris at fundoing.com I am so impressed at the work he is doing while have a fair bit of fun. He made a great little demo video of the helmets I made for the last blog. I am looking forward to hearing what ideas he has for incorporating reused gear in his work! Thanks again!

I am happy to have met some of you at this years Association of Challenge Course Technology. I had a good time learning and seeing what others in the industry are doing. I am proud to have accomplished some good networking with my idea for reusing gear. I was even able to gain some new ones. I have been excited about this post from the start of this project. Without further ado.... By using two retired helmets and some expired rope you can add a lot to old activities and create whole new ones. Take two helmets place them crown to crown. Center them as well as you can while wrapping a bit of rope around where the two meet. The rope is added to the helmets to grain a greater surface area for glueing. After measuring the rope cut it and glue it in a ring in the center of the top. A bit about glue. I really like CA (cyanoacrylate) glue. This is basically super glue. I nearly always use it with an acceleration spray. This really helps when there is only one set of hands. Set ...

How are your knots? Keep up the practice. Having several retired (meaning no longer used for holding humans off the ground) lengths of rope around is a great way to add props and activities to your program. Some common ways to use rope in activities. Boundaries There are many time that a clear and defined area to play in helps the group. This may contain a group of kids or limit the area that a team operate in. Lay the rope out in the desired space and its like an instant wall. The fishermen's knot is extremely well suited for tying two ends together. Need to adjust? The fishermen's knot slides! Use one rope to tie the knot around the other. Repeat the process so the two knots will toward each other when the loose ends are pulled. Turn Style This is a great game to get a group to talk through brainstorming and implementing ideas. It usually follows the classic storming, forming, norming (performing) pattern. The rope is used as a large jump rope. The object is to...