Climbing Rope

We put up a climbing rope in our garage yesterday. The rope itself was a lot cheaper than I thought it would be - only $20 for a 13ft x 1.5in rope on Amazon. Then just the hardware to screw it into the ceiling. I wanted to make sure the weight got distributed across a few rafters, but it just took me about an hour to figure that all out and put it up. 

Our children were all excited to give it a try. They all thought they would be able to do it no problem. I also thought that I would be able to do it "Princes Bride" style without a problem (climbing up with just my arms not using my legs at all - see below). I was definitely wrong. 

Asher, Agnes, and Elliott didn't make it very far on their first try. Christian and Ethan did a little better. But Julia made it all the way to the top. She was pretty proud to be able to show up her brothers on a physical/strength thing.

Then I tried to teach them the proper way to use their feet to clamp the rope. A few of them tried that and made it farther, but their arms were all already tired by that point.

I am interested to see how long it will take them to learn to get to the top. And maybe one day I will be like Fezzik and make it with just my arms and at least three of them on my back.

Here are some pictures and videos of their first tries.