About Endless Rope
Looking up the twenty-foot rope, ready to climb for the
fifth time, I thought wouldn't it be great if there were no ceiling. I
could climb until I was exhausted and each day add another hand change to
my effort. Then I thought, would I really want to be one hundred feet off
the ground... totally exhausted. No way.
It was 1985 and as an owner of a Junior Olympic
Gymnastics facility I clearly recognized the value of rope climbing for
grip and upper-body development. As the son of an inventor, it was my
nature to imagine how things "might be", so I drew several
sketches of ideas that were soon buried under a mountain of daily duties.
Through
the years my mind would return to the concept of an endless rope and I
would share the idea with someone close. One such person was Fred Maestas,
a faithful friend and workout partner who is very imaginative and
mechanically minded.
Several years after our first conversation about an
endless rope, Fred approached me and asked if I might be interested
in building a prototype of the rope machine. Fred had constructed a
large shop filled with tools and it soon became our playground. As they
say, the rest is history.
With each successive model our appreciation for what we
were achieving grew. We knew we needed to name our invention and the
natural choice was the "Endless Rope".
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