Swing For Life
The Swing for Life, present during the first season of the original American Gladiators, was a rope swing over a short wall. Contenders grabbed the rope which was on the platform where the Commando Lines ended and had to swing over a shorter wall several feet away before landing on a crash pad. No penalty was assessed for failing to swing over the wall. The Swing for life returned in the American revival, only this time contenders had to swing over a deep pit instead of a wall. To assist the contenders in changing levels (as the platform where they were landing was not covered by a crash pad) the entire rope dropped as the contender swung by means of a winch in the ceiling of the arena. If a contender missed the landing platform, they had to climb back up to a crash pad that was nearly level with, but below the landing platform and attempt their swing from there. On swings from here, the ropes were pulled back up by the winch.
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Famous quotes containing the words swing and/or life:
“Neither moral relations nor the moral law can swing in vacuo. Their only habitat can be a mind which feels them; and no world composed of merely physical facts can possibly be a world to which ethical propositions apply.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“One of the most horrible, yet most important, discoveries of our age has been that, if you really wish to destroy a person and turn him into an automaton, the surest method is not physical torture, in the strict sense, but simply to keep him awake, i.e., in an existential relation to life without intermission.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)