20 point hang.

[thefro526]

Originally Posted by nahstobor

If you can do a 20 point hang, you "should" be able to do a 30 point hang.

Originally Posted by EricLeifermann

Completely disagree. It all depends on the "route" you take to actually climb.

This is an interesting subject.

If you look at a legal 20 point hang, the following three things have to happen.

1) Your robot made a transition from Zone 0 to Zone 1.

2) Your robot entered into a 'stable' and 'predictable' orientation in Zone 1 (locked) before going into Zone 2.

3) Your robot made a transition from Zone 1 to Zone 2.

Step #2 is debatable, but it more or less implies that the machine enters into some known configuration that allows it to go from Zone 1 to Zone 2. Depending on the method, this may or may not be a static configuration.

If you look at the 3 points above, a 30pt ascent would need to repeat steps 2 and 3, but from Zone 2 to Zone 3. Depending on the method chosen, if you can get to Zone 2, odds are the mechanism can be tweaked into something that can get you into Zone 3.

Of course, this doesn't apply for all mechanisms, especially those that rely on robot orientation changes to transition between zones, but I'd say that most conventional methods can be tweaked from a Zone 2 Mechanism to a Zone 3 Mechanism.... Which may be the reason for a lack of 'dedicated' Zone 2 climbing discussion.