Lifting and Rising Balls
Tent 2 | Seminar
Sunday, 02/18/2024, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Presented by: Ellen Webb
In this demonstration seminar you will learn how to attach a lift line to your ball shells. This method uses a twisted cotton rope that has the individual strings opened and attached to the shell, then glued and taped, giving a sleek, “onion top” appearance. For super a quick attachment, there will also be demo on how to secure by a tie off. To the rope the demonstration will show how to attach rising flower effects. The rising flower effect segment will include discussion on how the ‘flowers’ should be made (size, stars, effects), the timing of the “flowers” and the ignition of the “flowers”. There will also be a demonstration on an easy and secure method of attaching Rising Comets. This seminar is didactic and demo only.
Additional Session Information:
- Beginner Friendly: Not Applicable
- PPE Required: Yes
- Age 18+: Not Applicable
- PIT Crew: Not Applicable
About Presenters
Ellen Webb
Ellen started out in Pyro as so many here do, at a very young age, sneaking supplies from dads garage or shop. Having a fire and rocket obsessed brother, and mostly boys in the neighborhood was destined to skew her childhood world view. Instead of wanting to be a princess in a beautiful castle like many other little girls, she wanted to blow up the castle.
At PGI The Mumm shell building class was all it took to completely set the hook and she left the convention with over 100 pounds of chemicals, a thumb drive full of literature, and a star roller on order. Its been pretty much total immersion ever since. She had finally found her peeps.
Ellen is retired now, but her day job was as a Registered Nurse for over 3 decades, the last part in Intensive Care and Emergency Room, while the first half was in Psychiatric Emergency and probably goes a long way into explaining her current pyro obsession.
