ready for launch
I still love swinging on the playground swings and it always brings me back...remembering the many summer days in my childhood trying to make that darn swing go 360 degrees around. Get those legs kicking and every pass going higher and higher until it seems certain to work. Then you reach a certain point and the momentum is not enough the chain starts to bend and you fall back toward Earth, sometimes with a spine jarring jolt. I wonder now if it is even possible. After doing some quick research I found that it is very possible to do a 360 on the swings, just not with the tools at hand. Playground swings are just not designed to go 360 for obvious reasons. The chains would have to be replaced with rods and some sort of additional power to launch oneself around the top bar would greatly improve the odds of success.
52 Weeks - week 33 - a different angle
ODC - faux olympics, my event - playground swing 360
We're here - is visiting August
ready for launch
I still love swinging on the playground swings and it always brings me back...remembering the many summer days in my childhood trying to make that darn swing go 360 degrees around. Get those legs kicking and every pass going higher and higher until it seems certain to work. Then you reach a certain point and the momentum is not enough the chain starts to bend and you fall back toward Earth, sometimes with a spine jarring jolt. I wonder now if it is even possible. After doing some quick research I found that it is very possible to do a 360 on the swings, just not with the tools at hand. Playground swings are just not designed to go 360 for obvious reasons. The chains would have to be replaced with rods and some sort of additional power to launch oneself around the top bar would greatly improve the odds of success.
52 Weeks - week 33 - a different angle
ODC - faux olympics, my event - playground swing 360
We're here - is visiting August