How To Escape From A Deadly Rope Trap: IRL 

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Olivia shows that it's strength to weight ratio, not absolute strength, that wins these types of challenges.

Lol. I kept thinking- “Pull yourself into a standing position, it’ll be easier without blood rushing to your head, and the ropes won’t pull tighter from your weight. And then Olivia did just that.

A thought: with one leg tied, the first thing you might want to try doing is seeing if you can wiggle off the shoe from your free foot, so you can use both hands to hold the rope, and your toes to act as extra fingers to loosen the snare (only possible with certain kinds of snare)

Step one: Become Ben Echo

in most movies, the character escapes by using knife or other improvised sharp objects to cut the rope, so I think what these guys did are probably harder

I need to try this

Your friends tried to unknot the tie but seeing olivia how she got off in the first challenge would have helped them to get free like the last one

I think the way to escape always involves releasing tension from the knot. So I imagine that a way of releasing yourself from the two hand tie would be rounding the rope two or three times around your ankle, then bending up again, trying to keep the rope under the sole of your feet, so you'll end up standing on top of it. Then holding the rope with your hands to stabillise yourself, slightly bend forward ro release tension from the knot, and wiggle it open. I don't know if I explained myself properly, but I think that would do the trick.

Olivia is a straight G.

You should try escaping handcuffs next. In front, behind the back , sometimes the mouth is being taped up or blindfold the eyes. You should also try using a safety pin instead of the key too.

For the two hands tied escape I wonder if some sort of dynamic/kipping attempt would work. What I mean is kip up like you are climbing a salmon ladder and try to grab the rope up higher so you can loosen the knot and get your hands free.

We have to figure out how to make two hands escape🤔🤔🤔 Great video’💪🔥

have to love these guys' sense of humour. their videos seem very genuine, without heavy editing

Wanted to see these moments in movies tried out for YEARS! Great videos bro

I'm pretty sure with the single leg snare, if it pulled up as fast as they show in movies, about 90% of people would have at least one of their leg joints dislocated if not just completely pulled out of socket.

Okay THIS is some goddamn C O N T E N T

Watching them jump down next to a slipknot was so anxiety inducing.

you're underrated man! Hope your channel can keep growing. You deserve at least a million subs!

at 3:15, brings back memories when we did doing something similar back in the army and one of the trainees got the noose around his neck as he was going down.

Wow so it IS doable, but you're gonna need a lot of strength and fitness (or adrenaline) to be able to do it!

Amazing, first time here, really amazing BEN ECHO!💪

That's a very dangerous situation once you break free from the noose. If that noose were to catch a limb or worse your head on the way down.

The guy from I Am Legend probably could've easily escaped, but he had the bad luck of hitting his head on the pavement on his way up. It kept him from thinking clearly, bc he obv had at least a concussion. Happened a lot faster than some of the others because the counterweight was a 3000lb car. Maybe the least unrealistic part of a zombie vampire movie.

Another banger! Always providing such high quality content 🙌

I think the only way to manage the wrist situation would be to have strong and stretched fingers. A strong guitarrist who knows how to do a handstand might be able to finish this.

I want to be like Olivia when i grow up! I mean, she is not only strong she also is pretty analytic and clever, total respect to the goddess!!

First one has to be easy 😅😅. Olivia did it exactly the way I thought

Great video Ben! Have a good day mate!

Thats all good with big rope, next level, wire🔥

I did not expect Maplestory BGM from your channel.. thanks for the fun vid!

The power of the gingers. Impressive work, I'd certainly be a sitting/hanging duck.

I've had this question for years now, thank you!

Well you helped me with a solution to one my my nightmares. Now do the jumping out of a plane with no parachute.

I love these movies verse irl. It’s really fun.

I feel like if ben and the others practiced climbing up a rope upside down WITHOUT their hands tied, they could develop the technique to free from the wrist hang. But that looks f**king difficult for sure.

Very entertaining video idea man, was fun to watch. Keep it up and the growth will come!

I saw the video title and thought of what Koda said in _Brother Bear:_ "The only way out is to chew your own foot off."

I too, wish to tell people how to escape from snares while MapleStory music plays in the background

Ben roasting his friends for 7 and a half minutes.

Imagine falling from movie-height and not getting your feet underneath you though

Him “if you need to tie someone up do it by the wrists” me: thanks for that important information

Olivia is quite a ninja. I respect speed and strength

Loveee these videos

another great video mate

"Clearly it pays to be fit" Hmph luckily that rope probably can't handle 400+lbs of pure American mass

I saw a circus artist in a vertical fabric last week. They habe a technique which they use to climb up the fabric hands free upside down. So there might be a way to trap the rope, pull with your legs and actually take all the tension from the snare around your hands... I think you have demonstrated sufficient athleticism and strength... Maybe stealing a technique from another sport cod give the edge on that test... I certainly can't do it, and neither am I pretending to be anywhere near your level of fitness... But hey, you asked for ideas... Great video. Made me subscribe.

From a circus perspective, you probably could have used a few different climbing techniques to create space for you to get out. I must admit, I want yo try this now to see if I could do it.

Me, with zero body strength and who hasn't hit the gym in two months: I can totes do that

Two scenarios for me: 1- I have a knife, cut free, live. 2- I do not have a knife; dead.

As a 50 year old that has never gone to a gym but am relatively fit and flexible, I really want to try this. I think I could do it.

i liked just bcus of that foot slap :)

Step one become calisthenic master Step two you survived

Interesting concept

Okay, but in reality, you will be yanked to the top, putting you into shock for a couple of seconds too. Possibly actually damage. 15 seconds is also more than enough time for somebody to come and permanently disable you. I think, no matter how fit you are, if you're snared, you're in big trouble.

A thinner rope and no one's gonna make it. Unless you have a knife. Always cary a pocket knife :)

Well, everything depends on the thickness of the rope itself. Try to climb up the rope from I,legend movie... pretty hard, since the rope was so thin - not "regular" old school western rope. It might be more deadly, when the thin rope cut into your ancles and you are not able to climb up, because it is cutting also into your fingers. But adrenaline may be helpful in this situation.

3:34 maplestory music haha

Well done with using a snare trap for tightening the rope 👌🏽

ahaha spot the aerialist!

That's some cheeky henesys music

Olivia clearly has a stash of Compound-V

Ben I watch you on ninja warrior today I'm a fan

Make more videos like this

My friends and I tried these as a kid for fun. At the time, i was maybe 90 lb and climbed like a monkey. The key isn’t brute strength. Its flexibility and power to weight ratio. Like Olivia, it was much easier for me to pull 90lb up a rope than my friends to pull 130lb. Their weight on the rope was unbearable by itself. For the hands and single leg i lifted my free leg and looped my foot into the rope. Then lifted myself and looped again. Repeated until it took the tension off the loop, then used my teeth to undo the knot. For the double foot, I pulled myself all the way up to a “standing” position, looped my arm in the rope then lifted my feet to reach knot. It all hurt like hell but was doable. I wouldn’t try it now at my current age and weight. Also if you were yanked up by one leg and swinging from a trap, you wouldn’t be thinking of how to escape. You would be passed out from the dislocated femur only waking up to vomit, then pass out again from your blood not circulating.

Next video: How To Escape From A Noose: IRL

It seems like, once you get to where you're upright instead of upside down, wrap the rope around your arm so that you can hang from that arm without requiring the grip strength of that hand to hold you up while your other hand goes down to untie the knot. At least that concept works in my head. For the arms tied one, the pain might be too much, but I wonder if you could use your legs to "jump" your hands up the rope and grab it higher, releasing the tension of the knot enough to slip your hands free. It would require a lot of grip strength though.

have a go of Corde Lisse it will give you a whole new regard for rope. In fitter days was able to desend a rope inverted no hands. Circus skills are so fun and great for fitness.

If only Ellie had access to this video before

This man is really using MapleStory as his background music

For the one with the hands you could maybe try kipping or smth

As someone who used to do rope climbs every day I really want to try this

As someone who used to do exactly this for fun, the skinnier and more flexible you are, the easier it is. I actually think being that buff is a hindrance. You want to be strong but wiry.

A snare to trap and hang a person upside done is rare but who ever sets one would not care about the comfort of the snare victim.

For the wrist one I think climbing the rope with your hands first would be worth a try long, as you are strong enough, to create slack then go upside down.

Nice

For the one with hands tied up is tricky. You would have to climb the rope using upper body strength enough to create a slack on the rope below where your hands are holding the rope at. With that slack then remove the hands bu pushing with your forearms like a chicken wing to open the snare and then slide out.

I would love to have been in this one to show you, that you dont need to be super fit to pull it of if you hang by your feet, it all about technic. However it is near impossible if you hang by your hands. 🙂

I think the best way to do this would be to rope climb up to whatever is holding you and untie yourself there. You know it can hold your weight, and I can’t imagine it would be hundreds of feet off the ground or the trap would be obvious

Wait Jake can do 5 pull ups but only 10-15 push-ups. There's some serious strength imbalances there

Hunter traps like this are often made from steel string or thin steel cord. So it will be much harder to grab.

Not me wanting to try this now... and I mean there wasn't a disclaimer sooo off to go get some rope😂

4:22 “If you ever want to tie anyone up, do it by their wrists.” Alright bet

Riddick rope escape. If you can find place with gravity low enough.

There is this variable about the rope/legs drag/friction.

So Joel was capable of easily escape instead of shooting zombies (i mean mushroom infected guys), while Ellie was trying to free him, right?

Olivia is so 🔥

5 Pullups and 10-15 Pushups? What a weird Ratio

*THE JINJA NENJA*

It pays to be fit and to not mess with any mafia or crazy cults

You should have tried Hangsman's knot. The one you used is the easiest to loosen up

what about swinging? like surpassing horizontal and than snap into the pullposition?

I'm confused about the rules for the hands tied one, did you not use your hands because it was impossible to do so or because it was specifically banned to do so?

This is why I always carry a knife it makes this a little bit easier as long as you don't drop it.

I do aerial sports and Olivia's method is what I had in my head. You need flexibility and strength, but the adrenaline should help with that in a life or death situation. Plus, once you get right side up, you could actually rest for a while by standing in the snare. She climbed up and took pressure off the knot. The other guys didn't even think of this method. They kept fiddling with the tensed knot. Impossible to open in that position.

The first one is less about strength and more about flexibility strength can be used to compensate but it's not a 1-1 exchange.

this should be a part of special forces training.

Actually I think you can solve this with brains easier the with strengh. By rythemly wiggeling to the left and right you could create a pendulum effect until ether you get to grad a ledge or wear down the rope at the point of swivel. Got to try this once I get the possibility...

Is that Maple Story music at 3:30 ? :D

IRL the rope would be tied to something (tree) so really the top bar would be in and an option to grab.