Now it’s time to fly! Shay shows first the “hard way”, just using the ropes and carabiners as a pulley system to lift the bottom into the air. Then she shows how the addition of a simple ankle rope can make lifting the bottom into the air more of a collaborative act.

Shay Teaches Basic Suspension

1. Introduction to Self & Partnered – Suspension
2. Preparing for Self & Partner Suspension
3. Supplies for Suspension
4. Rope Selection (Self & Partnered Suspension)
5. Cutting Tools for Suspension/Self-Suspension
6. General Risks for Suspension & Mitigation
7. Risk Profile Differences for Self vs. Partnered Suspension
8. Hanging a Hard Point (Self & Partnered Suspension)
9. Basic Foundations for Tying
10. Basic Suspension Hip Harness
11. Basic Suspension: Attaching a Hanger to the Hip Harness
12. Basic Suspension: Upline Theory
13. Basic Suspension: Upline Daisy Chain
14. Open Loop Suspension
15. Basic Suspension: Arms-Free Chest Harness Part 1
16. Basic Arms-Free Chest Harness Part 2
17. Basic Suspension: Going Up
18. Basic Suspension: Going Up, Part 2 – Variations
19. Basic Suspension: Getting Your Partner Down