# Wallenda wears a sissy strap **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [May 21, 2012, 3:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wallenda-wears-a-sissy-strap/223179 "2012-05-21T15:12:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 8:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wallenda-wears-a-sissy-strap/223179/101 "2012-06-15T20:00:08Z")
Back to you MOE! Eh, good for him even with the tether. I was down about it at first but it was cool to watch. ---
**Author:** ![Mike93](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mike93/32/7325_2.png) [@Mike93](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mike93)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 8:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wallenda-wears-a-sissy-strap/223179/102 "2012-06-15T20:18:44Z")
Dean Potter\>this dude… [https://youtu.be/IsagruTOXA8](https://youtu.be/IsagruTOXA8) ---
**Author:** ![honda4life](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/honda4life/32/5300_2.png) [@honda4life](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/honda4life)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 9:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wallenda-wears-a-sissy-strap/223179/103 "2012-06-15T21:49:44Z")
Do you have your passport? Ah man, jk here it is. What is your reason for coming to Canada? To inspire people across the world. And you did do that. Fucking lame if you ask me lol should of made him walk back… ---
**Author:** ![LXIFLYBY](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/lxiflyby/32/7399_2.png) [@LXIFLYBY](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LXIFLYBY)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 11:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wallenda-wears-a-sissy-strap/223179/104 "2012-06-15T23:37:07Z")
Philippe Petit walked from tower to tower at 1,368 ft and made the 200ft crossing 8 TIMES on a 3/4" wire rope. That guy is sooooo badass. 3/4" wire rope\>2" steel cable. The wire size alone has to up the difficulty factory enormously. ---
**Author:** ![LAFENGAS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/lafengas/32/7573_2.png) [@LAFENGAS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LAFENGAS)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 5:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wallenda-wears-a-sissy-strap/223179/105 "2012-06-16T05:32:26Z")
Has any mentioned that a 3/4" steel cable would have likely snapped if had to have been drawn tight over that length of span? 2" was likely an engineering design requirement, not a decision of comfort. It’s funny how everybody is knit picking this as if he chickened out. I’ve been hanging/walking at 600+ft with a safety harness and it’s still scarey as shit, especially with wind gusts. ---
**Author:** ![1QIKZ](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/1qikz/32/6112_2.png) [@1QIKZ](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/1QIKZ)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 6:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wallenda-wears-a-sissy-strap/223179/106 "2012-06-16T06:31:07Z")
Wallenda had been seen having dinner with Lance Armstrong months before the walk. There is rumor he has been using performance enhancing drugs (which has run rampant through the daredevil industry) and officials are considering changing his title from Man of the Mist to Bitch of the Mist. ---
**Author:** ![TradersBASE](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tradersbase/32/5321_2.png) [@TradersBASE](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TradersBASE)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 7:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wallenda-wears-a-sissy-strap/223179/107 "2012-06-16T07:46:08Z")
> [@gt08vapor](#): > > Anyone could do this with a harness. Anyone could do it…no. Anyone could try it…maybe. While I still respect his focus, balance and endurance that harness reduced the awe effect like 50+% for me. There was no fear of death therefore it wasn’t a death defying stunt. ---------- Post added at 10:43 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:41 AM ---------- > [@newman](#): > > Everyone saying that it’s “easy” with a tether… try a 30 foot tall, 30 foot long slackline with or without a tether I’m gonna bet you will shit your pants before even stepping foot on it… But I’ll set it up for ya. 😉 > > 99% of you are fucking pussies, guaranteed. In to watch the lulz and backouts. ---------- Post added at 10:46 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:43 AM ---------- > [@theblue](#): > > even without a wire he has nothing on Philippe Petit: > > ![http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/07/24/arts/25wire-600.jpg](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/1/a/1a5c6a42a06f659097a5bef6bdaa0802e67915ad.jpeg) > > he didn’t need permission, he just broke into the WTC and set up a wire and walked it. That doesn’t look like a NASA designed or approved wire. And I can see a tether under his monk cloak. J/K ---
**Author:** ![Motocrossx23](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/motocrossx23/32/5120_2.png) [@Motocrossx23](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Motocrossx23)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 8:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wallenda-wears-a-sissy-strap/223179/108 "2012-06-16T08:39:18Z")
Cool and good for him. Frankly though, I didn’t give a shit about this whole thing. Inspire people? By doing what? Wasting 2 million dollars to walk across a wire. If I wanted to waste a ton of money for something meaningless I’d go back to school for another college degree. ---
**Author:** ![ubengineering](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ubengineering/32/5171_2.png) [@ubengineering](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ubengineering)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 9:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wallenda-wears-a-sissy-strap/223179/109 "2012-06-16T09:52:42Z")
that guy bounced up and down on the wire and layed down on it^^ ---
**Author:** ![LXIFLYBY](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/lxiflyby/32/7399_2.png) [@LXIFLYBY](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LXIFLYBY)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 12:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wallenda-wears-a-sissy-strap/223179/110 "2012-06-16T12:04:36Z")
> [@LAFENGAS](#): > > Has any mentioned that a 3/4" steel cable would have likely snapped if had to have been drawn tight over that length of span? 2" was likely an engineering design requirement, not a decision of comfort. > > It’s funny how everybody is knit picking this as if he chickened out. I’ve been hanging/walking at 600+ft with a safety harness and it’s still scarey as shit, especially with wind gusts. It depends on how much allowable sag there is over the length of the run. ive personally seen 3/8" 7 strand steel guy wire strung just as long if not longer. It just depends on how tight you really need to get it ---
**Author:** ![LAFENGAS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/lafengas/32/7573_2.png) [@LAFENGAS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LAFENGAS)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 2:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wallenda-wears-a-sissy-strap/223179/111 "2012-06-16T14:55:42Z")
> [@LXIFLYBY](#): > > It just depends on how tight you really need to get it ^No shit. 3/8 is a far cry from 3/4" when you’re fighting the weight of the cable in order to draw it tight with minimal slack/sag. The BREAKING strength of 3/4" guy wire is in the neighbor hood of 60K-75K#. To get a 3/4 guy wire tight enough to walk on over that span would need to be close to the breaking strength. I’m willing to bet it was tensioned WELL over 100,000 lbs on that 2" cable. Hell, the cable must have weighed 15,000lbs by itself, let alone to draw it tight. ---
**Author:** ![newman](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/newman/32/7569_2.png) [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 5:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wallenda-wears-a-sissy-strap/223179/112 "2012-06-16T17:38:49Z")
I was TOLD that the cable weighed 8 tons and the tensioning counterweight was 40 tons… ---
**Author:** ![1QIKZ](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/1qikz/32/6112_2.png) [@1QIKZ](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/1QIKZ)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 6:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wallenda-wears-a-sissy-strap/223179/113 "2012-06-16T18:54:01Z")
I thought the media vultures with their earpiece interview was f’in ridiculous. Does he really need more to deal with? Next time, just hire sharp shooters to zing shots by his ear. ---
**Author:** ![rugsr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rugsr/32/7474_2.png) [@rugsr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/rugsr)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 7:29pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wallenda-wears-a-sissy-strap/223179/114 "2012-06-16T19:29:28Z")
> [@1QIKZ](#): > > I thought the media vultures with their earpiece interview was f’in ridiculous. Does he really need more to deal with? Next time, just hire sharp shooters to zing shots by his ear. lol i feel ya. i was saying to myself. STFU and let the guy walk it. leave him alone ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 4:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wallenda-wears-a-sissy-strap/223179/115 "2012-06-17T04:55:21Z")
Really made me angry every time ABC said “defies death”. Fuck you ABC, you’re the pussies who mandated he wear a tether, removing the whole “death defying” part. Knowing the vast majority of the risk had been removed made this only slightly more exciting than watching paint dry. This should have been brought to you by RedBull and halfway through they would have one of their pylon race planes fly under an untethered Wallenda. Now that would be a fucking show! :lol: ---
**Author:** ![1QIKZ](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/1qikz/32/6112_2.png) [@1QIKZ](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/1QIKZ)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 4:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wallenda-wears-a-sissy-strap/223179/116 "2012-06-17T04:59:39Z")
> [@JayS](#): > > Really made me angry every time ABC said “defies death”. Fuck you ABC, you’re the pussies who mandated he wear a tether, removing the whole “death defying” part. Knowing the vast majority of the risk had been removed made this only slightly more exciting than watching paint dry. This should have been brought to you by RedBull and halfway through they would have one of their pylon race planes fly under an untethered Wallenda. Now that would be a fucking show! :lol: I like your thinking. You should work directly with managemrnt on nyspeed events. ---
**Author:** ![TradersBASE](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tradersbase/32/5321_2.png) [@TradersBASE](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TradersBASE)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 5:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wallenda-wears-a-sissy-strap/223179/117 "2012-06-17T05:22:20Z")
> [@JayS](#): > > Really made me angry every time ABC said “defies death”. Fuck you ABC, you’re the pussies who mandated he wear a tether, removing the whole “death defying” part. Knowing the vast majority of the risk had been removed made this only slightly more exciting than watching paint dry. This should have been brought to you by RedBull and halfway through they would have one of their pylon race planes fly under an untethered Wallenda. Now that would be a fucking show! :lol: I request 1 addition…Travis Pastrana triple backflips over the falls while the planes are under the untethered Wallenda. ---
**Author:** ![Onyx\_Z32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/onyx_z32/32/7581_2.png) [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 12:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wallenda-wears-a-sissy-strap/223179/118 "2012-08-09T12:01:43Z")
Bump. Walking 1,300 feet up right now in Atlantic City… no harness :tup: ---
**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 12:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wallenda-wears-a-sissy-strap/223179/119 "2012-08-09T12:21:02Z")
I think once you cross Niagara Falls, the rest is just child’s play. ---
**Author:** ![1QIKZ](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/1qikz/32/6112_2.png) [@1QIKZ](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/1QIKZ)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2013, 6:29pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wallenda-wears-a-sissy-strap/223179/120 "2013-06-04T18:29:41Z")
> [@boxxa](#): > > I think once you cross Niagara Falls, the rest is just child’s play. So now he’s planning on the Grand Canyon, no sissy strap, 1500 feet high. Would seem to me you would wear the strap where there’s no water below, and leave it off where there is. [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wallenda-wears-a-sissy-strap/223179.md?page=5) [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wallenda-wears-a-sissy-strap/223179.md?page=7)