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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

Setting up a safe rigging point at home

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Setting up a safe rigging point at home

Contents: 1. Introduction 2. How strong does your rigging point need to be 3. Is your building strong enough? 4. What kind of equipment do you need? 5. Is it done correctly 6. How to get the best from your structural engineer Introduction This document looks at the setting up

September News

September has included a lot of new experiences for the world of circus dealing with a pandemic. There has obviously been a massive impact to everyone’s lifestyle and careers but we are starting to see some changes. We have seen a number of circus training organisations re-opening up in

Introduction to Safe Training at Home

Introduction to Safe Training at Home

This document is part one of a series aimed at people who aren’t professional riggers but want to install equipment at home. There will be separate documents for riggers, and for structural or building engineers. This series includes: * Introduction to Safe Home Training (this document) * Setting Up a Safe

Practical COVID-19 Solutions for Circus Schools

Practical COVID-19 Solutions for Circus Schools

Date: Friday 28th August 3-5pm As we are all opening or near to opening, come and find out what everyone is doing to try to stay safe and open. We have speakers from The National Centre of Circus Arts, Circomedia and Aerial Edge. We are moving beyond theory and into

Performer Handling with Brett Copes

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Performer Handling with Brett Copes

July Events

Factor of Safety Working Group Monday July 13th 2pm In our Slack forum we have been discussing Factors of Safety in acrobatic rigging and co-creating an advisory document on the subject. This meeting is to help define the audiences for this content and what types of advice is suitable for

The 7 Ds guideline for Covid-19 infection risk assessment in training spaces

The 7 Ds guideline for Covid-19 infection risk assessment in training spaces

Author: Catherine Knowles Following the precautionary principle, we should not be looking for evidence that a practice or activity is harmful before deciding to avoid it, but should instead be looking for evidence that a practice is safe before adopting it. I developed the 7 Ds below after research into

Circus Training with COVID-19

Circus Training with COVID-19

Welcome

Welcome it's great to have you here. This site is designed to provide a central point for hosting information, education and research on acrobatic rigging and circus safety. Read more below...

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Join the conversation

Once you are a member you will receive an invite to join the circusrigging.info slack team. This is not as yet an automated process and I'll need to add people manually. It's also not obligatory, you don't have to accept the invitation.

Rigging Conference May 2020

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Rigging Conference May 2020

How much do you weigh?

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How much do you weigh?

How do you calculate what load your rigging (anchor) point should be able to support? Your own body weight plus a little bit? Double your weight? Does that give you an adequate factor of safety?