Saferoller Continuous Belay System
When you're building an aerial adventure park, the belay system affects much more than participant safety.
It affects how people move through the course. How your elements are designed. Where your belay are located. How participants transition between challenges and zip lines. And how your staff manage the course every day.
Challenge Design Innovations often designs and builds aerial adventure parks, challenge courses, kids courses, and zip line systems using the Kanopeo Saferoller® continuous belay system.
We can incorporate Saferoller into a new course from the beginning or evaluate opportunities to use the system when updating an existing course.
What Is the Kanopeo Saferoller System?
Saferoller is a rolling continuous belay system developed by Kanopeo.
Instead of clipping and unclipping lanyards between individual challenge elements or poles or trees, the participant's Saferoller trolley travels continuously along the belay line. Once the trolley is properly connected to the belay line, Kanopeo designed the system so the participant cannot simply remove it without staff assistance.
And because the trolley rolls along the cable, participants can move from challenge elements into compatible zip lines without repeatedly changing connection systems.
For many aerial adventure parks, that creates a simple experience:
Connect. Roll. Explore the course.
A Rolling Continuous Belay
The rolling trolley is one of the features that separates Saferoller from many other continuous belay systems.
Kanopeo offers trolley configurations with Teflon or stainless-steel rollers and incorporates a 360-degree swivel into the system.
For us as course designers, the bigger advantage is what the system allows us to do with the entire course.
We can design the belay, platforms, challenges, transitions, and zip lines together rather than treating the belay system as something added after the course has already been designed.
Designing an Adventure Park Around Saferoller
The best belay system still needs the right course around it.
That is where CDI comes in.
We look at how people will actually move through your attraction and design the course around your site, audience, capacity goals, staffing model, and budget.
Depending on the project, that may include:
- Tree-based aerial adventure parks
- Pole-based adventure parks
- Tower structures
- Multi-level courses
- Zip lines
- Kids adventure courses
- Commercial adventure attractions
- Camp and educational challenge courses
- Existing course expansions or renovations
Saferoller can also allow the belay cable to be positioned above participants and out of normal reach. Kanopeo currently specifies out-of-reach configurations ranging roughly from 1.7 to 2.3 meters above platform height, depending on the application.
That can give designers more freedom to create an open feel without participants constantly interacting with a waist- or chest-level belay line.
Challenge Elements and Zip Lines on One System
One reason we often use Saferoller is its ability to work across different parts of an aerial adventure experience.
A participant might cross a bridge, work through a balance challenge, climb through a net element, reach a platform, and then roll directly onto a zip line.
The connection system stays with them.
For the participant, the equipment becomes less of the focus and the course becomes more of the focus.
Saferoller for Kids Adventure Courses
Saferoller can also be a good fit for courses designed specifically for younger participants.
Kanopeo offers its Saferoller Kids Trail concept for children starting at age four and specifically promotes the rolling system for independent movement through child-sized aerial challenges.
CDI can design a kids course around the physical size, reach, abilities, and confidence levels of younger participants.
That might include:
- Smaller bridges and challenge elements
- Lower course heights
- Kid-sized zip lines
- Nets and climbing features
- Balance challenges
- Multi-level play structures
- Courses that complement a larger adult adventure park
A kids course does not have to be just a miniature version of the adult course.
We can design it specifically for the way younger participants move, play, and explore.
New Saferoller Courses and Existing Course Upgrades
You do not necessarily need to be starting from an empty piece of property.
Building a New Course
When Saferoller is selected early in the planning process, we can design the entire system around it.
That includes the location of platforms, elements, zip lines, transitions, lifeline heights, traffic flow, access points, and other structural details.
Starting with the belay system in mind helps avoid compromises later.
Retrofitting an Existing Course
Some existing aerial adventure parks and challenge courses may also be candidates for a Saferoller retrofit.
Kanopeo specifically supports retrofit applications for existing parks.
But every existing course is different.
CDI can evaluate the structure, elements, lifeline configuration, platforms, clearances, zip lines, and operational needs before determining what changes would be required.
Sometimes that means modifying part of the existing course.
Sometimes a larger redesign makes more sense.
We will help you understand the options before you commit to one.
Why Work With CDI on a Saferoller Project?
Buying the Saferoller equipment is one part of the project.
Making it work well throughout an entire adventure park is another.
Challenge Design Innovations has been designing and building challenge courses, zip lines, and aerial adventure facilities since 1980.
We work with you from the first idea through the completed course.
Our services can include:
- Site evaluation
- Concept development
- Course layout
- Saferoller system integration
- Structural design and engineering
- Challenge element design
- Zip line design
- Construction
- Equipment installation
- Staff training
- Course inspection
- Maintenance and repairs
- Future expansions and modifications
And we stay involved after construction.
Your course will change over time. Equipment wears. Trees grow. Programs change. Attractions expand.
Having one company that understands both your course and the Saferoller system can make those conversations much easier.
Frequently Asked Questions About Kanopeo Saferoller
Is Saferoller a continuous belay system?
Yes. Saferoller is a rolling continuous belay system. Once properly connected, the trolley follows the lifeline throughout the course rather than requiring participants to repeatedly disconnect and reconnect as they move between compatible sections.
Can Saferoller be used on zip lines?
Yes. Kanopeo designed Saferoller for both aerial challenge elements and zip lines, including zip line courses of varying lengths.
Can Saferoller be used on a kids course?
Yes. Kanopeo offers Saferoller configurations specifically intended for children's adventure trails starting at age four.
Can CDI retrofit my existing adventure park with Saferoller?
Potentially. We first need to evaluate your existing course, lifeline, structures, platforms, elements, and zip lines. From there, we can determine whether a Saferoller retrofit makes sense and what modifications may be required.
Does CDI sell Saferoller equipment?
CDI incorporates Kanopeo Saferoller systems into the challenge courses and aerial adventure parks we design, build, modify, and support. We also sell the Saferoller Trolleys and replacement parts, as well as all the parts and pieces need to build and maintain a Saferoller Couse.
Need a price list or parts list? Let us know and we'll email you a copy
Is Saferoller right for every adventure park?
Not necessarily.
Belay system selection should be part of the overall course design process. Your participants, course type, staffing approach, site, zip lines, operational goals, and budget all play a role.
We work with several types of belay and connection systems. Our job is to help you choose a system that makes sense for the course you are actually building.
Planning a Saferoller Adventure Park?
If you are considering the Kanopeo Saferoller continuous belay system for a new aerial adventure park, challenge course, kids course, or zip line project, talk with CDI before the course design is finalized.
We can help you look at the Saferoller system as part of the entire project, including the course layout, participant flow, challenge elements, zip lines, construction, staff needs, training, and long-term support.