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Re: "Attaching" to the vertical pole.

[quote=Jason Rudolph]
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Originally Posted by Wetzel
So yes, if you are leaning on the vertical bar and require that to stay hanging, then you are not supported by the h-bar alone.

But, if you are completely supported by the horizontal bar, and only leaning against the vertical bar, so that if the vertical bar were removed you would swing in a bit (like a pendulum) but still be high enough off the platform, then why wouldn't you be considered hanging?
Thats what I thought I said. If you require the vertical bar to stay hanging, then you would fall if it was removed. If you fall if it was removed, then you don't count as hanging. If you just oscillate easier if it wasn't there, then you count.

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