Could you survive this?

Falling on static ropes is dangerous they say. It sounds painful, but how painful? We tested semi-static nylon rope, a very static polyester rope and a high-tech super static abrasion-resistant rope in the drop tower. Spoiler alert, some would kill you and that's only a fall factor of 0.3 or falling 1/3 the length of your rope. Falling with a fall factor of one (fall 5 feet with 5 feet of rope out) can break the rope, which still kills you.

Data is on our blog https://www.hownot2.com/post/static-w...

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You're not supposed to whip on static ropes
01:23 What force is ok?
02:06 Fall Factor-ology
03:24 Dynamic Rope Test
04:19 Semi Static Rope Test
06:06 Super Static Rope Test
07:55 High Tech Static Rope Test
09:05 Know how much it Hz