When the person in a cartoon steps inside a loop of a rope on the ground and onto a trap, and the rope grabs the ankle so quickly and lift up high to raise the person upside-down and hanging? How does this work in real life?

Question

When the person in a cartoon steps inside a loop of a rope on the ground and onto a trap, and the rope grabs the ankle so quickly and lift up high to raise the person upside-down and hanging? How does this work in real life?

In: Physics

Answer 1

General idea,

The loop is attached to a down-bent tree. When you step in the loop, you don’t *just* step in the loop, you also step on…something else.

The something else is a mechanism that lets the tree loose again, so that it once again snaps up in the air. And pulls the loop that catches your feet in the process.