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It’s time to play “Name That Suspension”

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Rob

I’m just going to come right out and say it.  I love The Sinner Team.  They’re consistently pushing the limits of suspension, while keeping safety the number one priority.  They’re also coming up with new ways to hang people all the time.  Add to all that their willingness to learn, and a flair for the dramatic, and you’ve got one of the finest teams working together right now.  That all said, here’s one of their latest suspensions, an 18 point…  something.

Technically it looks like it could be called an inverted-vertical coma, but that’s a bit of a tongue twister.  What about “The Leap of Faith Suspension”?  Given that it looks like she’s jumped off something backwards, and is falling headfirst but unable to see the ground.

For those of you who are curious about the hook placement, The Sinner Team provided this photo showing you the exact positioning.

A big thanks to Polina Krasnova for getting this suspension on camera.  From what I can tell she’s become The Sinner Team’s official photographer.

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Comments

11 responses to “It’s time to play “Name That Suspension””

  1. Awful Avatar
    Awful

    “The submissive”

  2. tobias Avatar
    tobias

    I don’t know what I would call this, but I know that I want to fly to moscow and marry that girl.

  3. elad Avatar
    elad

    ^took the words right out of my mouth

  4. cwire Avatar
    cwire

    This reminds me of someone being lowered into a chinese water torture cell. Call it a torture suspension :p

  5. nikki Avatar
    nikki

    man, i want to go to russia… they’re amazing.

  6. Lauren Avatar
    Lauren

    This reminds me of the story of Icarus!

  7. Stormchaser Avatar
    Stormchaser

    WONDERFUL Call it spider web suspension, it looks like being cought in a spider web. this huge load of cables criss-crossing the room, all being securely attached to the skin of the suspendee – like being cought in a huge spiders’ web

  8. Rob Avatar
    Rob

    @Lauren: The Icarus.. I like it!

  9. dyscordic Avatar
    dyscordic

    I love this. What a champ.

  10. Ana Avatar
    Ana

    I think it looks like something out of Hellraiser., so it would be a cool idea to name it after that 😀

  11. The Sick Avatar
    The Sick

    I agree with Ana! The Hellraiser Suspension! Was the first thing that crossed my mind…when I saw those pictures…i remember that EPIC cene of Hellraiser III (i guess) with that guy in the hospital all chained and stuff! Epic movie!!!

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