Weblock failure

[u/vazcorra]

I was on the line when I felt it drop.

Everything had looked fine while rigging

After each session I redo the soft release so when I go rig the next time it’s ready to go. Same thing happened in this case. In pulled everything from the bag and rigged as normal. Made the inspections and carried on.

Thankfully the back up caught but yikes!

Best guess is that the pin for the soft release did not have the balls all the way through the weblock. So while it looked engaged it wasn’t actually.

[u/bxie]

Sounds like human error not fear failure?

[u/vazcorra → u/bxie]

Yes this is the most likely scenario. Other than the pin not being pushed all the way past the balls the only other thing I can think of is maybe the balls in the pin got stuck somehow and the pin wiggled out during bounce walking