Episode 09 - Jim Shumway Author, rigger, educator, & Senior Project Manager at TAIT Towers Jim Shumway joins us to discuss his journey in entertainment rigging which includes working for Cirque du Soleil in China and then eventually ending up at Tait Towers where his specializes in performer flying. We also discuss design factors of materials, risk assessment and risk reduction, and over representing oneself. And there may be one or two mentions of his book. Jim’s book -Automated Performing Flying - lhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/081535214X/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Rock Lititz Studio grid capacity is 500 Tons. https://rocklititz.com/ Three Sigma - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/68–95–99.7_rule (I misspoke while recording and mentioned “95% confidence that 95.5% of the widgets would break at above the calculated force” was from Three Sigma. It’s actually from the Aluminum design manual. But the general concept with three sigma is the same, it statistics. As they say, “lies, damn lies, and statistics!”) The online webinars with Jim as a guest can be found - https://www.facebook.com/entprojects/ Tait’s Bar Block - https://barblocks.com/ Kong Frog - https://www.kong.it/en/2-products/items/f1-carabiners/p98-frog-cable
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