Camping Man Splashes Hard In Rope Swing Fail

Rope swing fails almost always occur because people, generally, make the same mistakes when they are first getting set up for the swing. It doesn’t mean that the fails are not funny. No, it is almost always funny to watch someone be terrible at using a rope swing. Whether it is a leaping attempt to grabbing a swing hanging over a lake or river, or if it is trying to snag a stationary swing from the shore.

The problem, when it comes to rope swing fails, is that people always grab the rope too low. And then you get situations like this guy who isn’t high enough to ride the swing above the water without sluicing through the water. Of course, it might also be that he is an adult and he pulls the swing down with his weight in a way that a kid would not. Mostly though it is because the man grabs the swing from too low of a starting position.

Fun fact, camping is thought to have been popularized by British adventurer and writer, Thomas Hiram Holding. A couple of articles that we read said that recreational camping was actually popularized in England in the 1880s in combination with the Victorian era obsession with pleasure boats, especially along the river Thames. The boats were actually used to transport tents that were quite heavy and more resembled pavilion tents than the tents we traditionally think about for camping. This is where Mr. Holding comes into play. He wrote a few books about his camping adventures through America and Ireland that kind of kicked off an English obsession with camping that eventually made it’s way over to the United States.