How to Fix a Broken Battle Rope | Personal Trainer Tips
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Coaches athletes what’s happening? Michael Hughes here from Gymnazo Edu. Got to talk about some stuff that happens all the time stuff breaks. So if you’ve been a coach, as long as I have owned facility as long as I have, you have equipment that just doesn’t know it doesn’t take up to the beating of rigorous training, especially if you have some rocks or athlete cranking on a piece of equipment, use it appropriately. Well, there’s wear and tear that’s that’s going to happen. So I’m gonna talk about how to fix a battle rope. And things like this happen all the time, I fixed my fair share of equipments through sort of brand new series of long series on how to fix broken equipment. If you have something that needs fixing you let me know about it. myself or clients of mine have proved built this entire facility off it’s not the structure piece of it, but things around it, I put in this turf, I’ve built that custom rack put it put together this whole this whole scene. So there’s a lot that we’ve learned and want to share with you. So how do you fix a battle rope that’s gone, well, haywire? Well, a few things you’re going to need. First you’re going to need is a heat gun or a very, very hot blow dryer, you’re gonna need some rubber tubing. And this tubing is a little bit different. It’s, it basically contracts under heat. And the description, I’ll put a link to this stuff that you can you can buy, depending on the size of rope that broke, you want the diameter of this tubing to kind of fit that kind of spot. So we’ll talk about that, then, obviously, some cutting devices. So as you’re going through this, and this rope kind of untangles and kind of makes it happen, you realize that, you know these ropes are manufactured very, very tightly. So as you go back to kind of rewind it and kind of get it in its groove, you’re gonna realize that either the manufacturer let one piece a little bit too short. And that’s why it slipped out. Or you’re, you’re retired job is not as tight as the previous manufacturer wants. And honestly, kind of makes sense. Because if you can see looking real tight, or my weaves are not as tight as this one. So what am I going to do about that? Well, actually, what I’m do is I’m just going to cut this short, my rope will get another six inch shorter, no big, big deal, but we want to make sure that’s taken care of, and dialed in. So I’m gonna go ahead and remove this extra rope piece, and just have a very sharp, sharp blade. And you’re basically going to score very, very carefully, and just hit the same spot over and over again, slowly cut. Again, this rope is more than just three pieces I each spot has its own kind of condensed, it’s almost like a muscle tissue to be quite frank with you. Right, there’s a bunch of small fibers that won’t make one large fiber. So I got my first one cut, just a nice score, we want to keep it keep it tight. So you make a nice clean, clean cut, because you want to be chasing away these extra long fibers. Few more here. And we should be good to go. There it is awesome. So an extra piece here. That’ll be in the in the treasure trove. So now I’m a little bit long on this side. Want to cut that that down, get that out of the way. So I have a nice, clean handle. Ready to get rockin and rollin here. So once I finished cutting this, we’ll get back to it. All right, so now I’ve got a new fresh end that I’ve just finished cutting. But you see these are basically these are kind of brand new, kind of fresh rope. And what we don’t want is we don’t want this to untangle in itself. So what we’d like to do is either get a flame and start to heat it up, or we can grab a heat gun and start to kind of burn at the end of this rope. So it gets kind of condensed, and it doesn’t take too too long. But the fibers in this nylon ropes are start to melt together. So you don’t get these open phrase to start coming coming through. And it’s very important that you weave it tight together. Again, because you don’t want to be spending your time doing this. Why you could be spending time working with clients or working on your business to make it grow. So I was been taught do it right the first time. So get those all kind of frayed up a little bit. It’s gonna get hot. Don’t get my fingers. Good, don’t get too too crazy, but just something to keep it together. So when you’re kind of hanging out, you’re not losing the rope away so that’s good enough there. So now I got my tubing now, manufacturer tubing is pretty darn thick. So depending on what you get, I like to do two different levels. Now this has a an basically a glue inside of it that allows you to stick to the rope as well. So it sticks the rope and shrinks around the rope but I’m gonna do the same distance as Wilson was put through the first one on this shrinks down. So I want to go little bit bigger because it’s going to shrink on down to about another inch or so bigger, I’m doing a double wrap on it doesn’t have to be too too perfect. Cutting two of them. So I get that double. There it is keep this for for extra cool stuff is that only cost like maybe like a 10 $10 $15 for plenty of plenty of extra for future future future fixes. Open it up, just like that. And I’m wearing a black sweatshirt on a black, opposite, open that up. And then this the hard part because this rope is kind of is opened. That’s why I like to fray the ends, I’m really going to tighten it down. And the more you tighten a rope, the smaller it gets. So I’m going to tighten it down, get as close as I can, and then make sure I get every fiber to get inside. So untangle it sneaking in there. Take your time, obviously, the more the better you burn the rope, the ease of this process is stick them all in there and slot them in. Now you want to keep that rope tight as you slide it over. So how do you do that you keep spinning this rubber sleeve over the rope as you push it down and keep going and I like to have a little bit of the rubber sticking over the end so it kind of caps this, this rope. So don’t get any loose ends hanging out. Looks pretty good there. And the first thing we’re gonna do that looks good right about there. I’ll want to start at the end first because that’s gonna shrink the most but he got on it. As you can see it’s awesome just goes right to work nice even spread make sure wraps around the top. Cut away any any extra has a pretty good shrink rate, we’re folds in on itself. And that’s about as small as it gets. But I want to go hot enough where that glue on the inside gets activated. This does have a decent smell to it. So I would definitely be mindful about doing this in an enclosed area. Not bad, but certainly they’re heating that up and all the way around. They see us it starts to contour to the to the rope. Get that glue on the inside to activate so squeezes it together
now when you put this heat gun off of it, service is gonna be hot. So watch out for that. Okay, good enough for now. Ready to go. I’ll leave that there until I finished the other one because it’s gonna be a nice guide. And I’ll put the second layer on it depending on the quality of the rubber that you get. You may want to do one I like to do to just get that extra layer like I said, I don’t want to be doing this again and I put this one a little bit lower than the first one. So I get kind of extra kind of rope grab on the very bottom and it continues to seal it up a little bit more here it is just stick at the top a little bit there. Get off to my black sweatshirt there nice job and that’s fired up. I’m starting to base now so we get a tight seal at the base first had a tight seal at the top first now tight seal the base first. So I cover my adds as it shrinks to add up and add up and add up
again, a heat gun is not totally necessary a blow dryer at high heat will work but it’s it’s going to take longer. So if you have one of these tools around great, go get them at a local hardware store. Like will won’t cost you more than 1020 20 bucks. Make sure you get a big enough diameter because you don’t want to be really wrestling with the rope to get it through. This shrinks like to think it shrinks down three times its original diameter. So bigger is a little bit better. All right, I’ll step off that that top and then you are ready to put this back in the rotation, set their set their rope fixed, just saved yourself a little solid 100 plus dollars and just 10 20 bucks 10 20 bucks and 20 minutes of your time.
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