Mark Gibson

Mark is the Managing Director of Aerial Edge and has been performing in circus arts since the year 2000. Mark has been working at height since 1983 and circus rigging since 2002

Rigging course updates and using rigging harnesses on truss

The site has undergone quite a few updates over the last few weeks. We now have 9 lessons available for the Rigging for Circus Arts online course and 2 appendices. * Lesson 1: An Introduction to Circus Rigging * Lesson 2: Forces & Factors of Safety * Lesson 3: Calculating Factors of Safety

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Harnesses & working at height on truss

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Appendix 2: Rigging Training Courses

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Appendix 1: Practical Rigging Case Studies

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Lesson 9: Equipment Inspections

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Lesson 8: Risk Assessments

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Lesson 7: Rigging Silks & Hammocks

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Lesson 6: Rigging Aerial Hoop

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Lesson 5: Setting Up Rigging Points at Home

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Lesson 4: Rigging From Truss

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Lesson 3: Calculating Factors of Safety

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Online course launch and more from Marion Cossin

Online training It's taken me a while to launch the first two lessons on our online rigging theory course. We've reshot and remade the content a couple of times as we decided to include video footage from Aerial Edge's rigging course in Glasgow in

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Lesson 2: Forces & Factors of Safety

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Maximal dynamic forces exerted by acrobats on nine circus apparatuses

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Lesson 1: An Introduction to Circus Rigging

Lesson Duration: 5 minutes. This lesson is a short introduction to our circus rigging course and the subjects it covers.

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Riggers event this Friday, plus a new training article

What we've been up to... This month we've been building out our rigging training content by recording the 5-day rigging course at Aerial Edge so you can experience it online. We'll be publishing the first modules from our course in the next few weeks.

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IRATA Training

It can be challenging to make a living from rigging purely in the circus world because there’s a limited number of places to rig. One way to open new income opportunities is to become qualified in rope access, which in any case is useful in circus situations too. The

Learning in 2023

Welcome to all the new members who have joined us over the last month or two, and a happy new year to everybody. Over the last two years, we've evolved the focus from our Rigging@Home series of videos and articles to topics of more interest to circus

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Risk Assessments & Rigging Silks

Lots of activity over the last month; we've produced six videos and 3 articles in partnership with Firetoys on rigging silks. Last month we had a live stream on risk assessments that is worth watching. Silks The following links will take you to the three articles on silks

Inspecting and Maintaining Your Silks

This article is designed to be used alongside six Circus Safety & Rigging videos with Mark Gibson from Aerial Edge, Glasgow’s Circus School, and Catherine Knowles, from Community Circus Paisley. There are also two other articles: Selecting Your Silks and Rigging Your Silks. You’ll find links to everything

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Rigging Your Silks

This article is designed to be used alongside six Circus Safety & Rigging videos with Mark Gibson from Aerial Edge, Glasgow’s Circus School, and Catherine Knowles, from Community Circus Paisley. There are also two other articles: Selecting Your Silks and Maintaining Your Silks. You’ll find links to everything

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Selecting Your Silks

This article is designed to be used alongside six Circus Safety & Rigging videos with Mark Gibson from Aerial Edge, Glasgow’s Circus School, and Catherine Knowles, from Community Circus Paisley. There are also two other articles: rigging and maintaining your silks. You’ll find the first video and links

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Risk Assessment Livestream October 14th

Livestream: Risk Assessments Chris Higgs & Mark Gibson discuss risk assessments, how we do them and what approach we should take in this month's live stream. Y [https://youtu.be/kY0vqKscg3E]ou can watch the session here [https://youtu.be/IjQnhnVVUXg]. Who loves playing with fire? Most circus

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Livestream on Risk Assessments and video on rigging from truss

Livestream: Risk Assessments Chris Higgs & Mark Gibson will be talking about risk assessments, how we do them and what approach we should take in this month's live stream The original 30th September date has been postponed due to illness. Join us on 14th October at 4 pm

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Video Rigging from truss