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Heh. I am not adverse to some aerial maneuvers. :/:

Nice. I imagine that Gary's ninja training school was very complete. Cool stuff. That's such a cool part of parenting is the dividend paid on giving when that giving is to your child. When family is working the way it was meant to be. There's no greater reward. Mighty philosophical. Lol...

I'm a sucker for all things active when it comes to my kid. I have encouraged her to take part in any type of activity she will or wants to. For me it's always worth it, no matter what. Less time exercising her thumbs on her phone the better.

Maybe I am a logger. Because I sure as hell ain't no carpenter! After careful mismeasuring based on lucking into finding one rafter I crafted a beautiful predrilled board, with six of the eight lags in the wrong spot. Dammit!!!! Well I found another rafter at a much more logical spacing. FFS...

Excellent advice guys. Thanks. My thoughts on the two anchor vs one is that two lower anchors would simulate somewhat having one higher anchor point. To mellow out the angle that the silks come together at? As well as spread the force out some, which would be a bonus. But I think it'll be...

This is what stopped me in my tracks. Lol. So my final version of the 'plan' is to span three rafters with a 2x6 lagged in twice to each rafter with 3/8 x 3" lag screws. I may get longer lags though when I get to town later and get my eyebolts. Now I can't easily locally get rated stainless...

I'll get it sorted now. Time to move forward!

Well Gary's photo shows his plate, which I think is a fantastic idea I like it a lot. I'm torn between trying to go four rafters wide with a 2x6 vs what it looks like to go say two or three rafters wide with a square piece of 3/4" plywood. I have 3/8lags on hand in 3" plated and 6" galvanized...

Thanks again everyone. I need to get this sorted or risk a very unhappy tween. Lol.

Yah so no Sheetrock. I'd say the span of the room is small like 10' the direction the rafters run. A very smallish bedroom.

The ceiling isn't Sheetrock. I'll snap a pic. My house isn't modern by far, hence the rafters not trusses. Blow in insulation is a common 'upgrade' to up insulation value. I'm not opposed to bracing across 2-4 rafters from below with like a 2x6 or something that the aerial silks would then...

These are a bunch of great ideas gents but I'm looking for more ideas from below the attic only access if it's at all possible? I guess I should look up lag bolt strengths? As that seems to be the best or possibly only option staying strictly from below?

I want this to be strong but I only have 8' ceilings. The kid is going to be limited by the available height in as far as how much dynamic loading she could apply. I don't honestly know what a 12 year old punk weighs. But I do know she seems to still be growing!

Again. If I was going to access it from above, I'll just do what I posted a picture of in the first post. I'd be very confident with that, it would span four rafters as you mention Sean. This isn't my attic, but you get the idea. I am wanting to avoid opening a giant can of worms by messing...

Thanks again guys for helping me spitball this out. Appreciated.

If I could access the attic, so everything above my ceiling. I would just do what I threw a picture up of in the first post. If I'm misunderstanding you mr. Shine my apologies but I assume you mean to mount that essentially in the attic.

Thanks alt, I was thinking for sure. More than one lag if I come up from below. Two would be relatively straight forward. My concerns with lagging from the bottom was what size to use to be strong enough but not compromise the strength of the rafter. Thanks too Peter. I'm not quite following...

Heh Treehousers. I need some advice, my analysis paralysis is slipping into play. Lol. My daughter the dancer is getting into aerials which is like a silk swing sort of. So to practice at home and her hearts desire for Christmas was her own setup she could work with to practice. Obviously very...