Well, spider strength…
That sentence didn’t end how I thought it would.
Well, the same radioactive ooze that blinded Matt Murdock fell into the sewer and landed on four dime store turtles and a rat.
Now see, that there is part of my problem. If you can jump 4 or 5 stories, why the hell would you need a web? If my math is correct, that’s like doing 0 to 40 mph in about a tenth of a second. Which would imply that Spidey can outrun Bugatti Veyrons and jump over anything in his way.
I’d have to do some math, but it seems as though the web slinging would actually slow Spiderman down. Admittedly, he gets to avoid traffic, but if you’re swinging on a pendulum, half the time you’re actually converting velocity back into kinetic energy so you’re slowing down. Also, the max speed you get from starting at five stories (50 feet, more or less) is 40mph, so it’s a good thing that Spidey is always chasing perps in NYC traffic.
I was 16 at the time, it was 50-60 feet. The tree was at the edge of an embankment. We would hold the vine and walk left or right and swing out and over to the other side.
Without careful pruning and route planning, it’s impossible. Trees have the inconvenient habit of growing branches, twigs and leaves in every direction around them, the chances of getting one of these stuck into your body at the end of a high speed, uncontrolled, swing into a tree are pretty high.
By the way, if I had to do that sort of thing on a daily basis while only wearing a loin cloth I’d be quite wary of where my crown jewels ended up. I always suspected that that was the source of Tarzan’s inhuman scream.
Source: I’m an arborist, I spend more on trees than your average chimp.
Not really. Brachiation is how apes move by swinging under branches using only their arms instead of walking on the branches with all fours (as most monkeys usually do).
Listen, ya mangy mutt, wag more & bark less if you don’t know what you’re talking about. 
As for the rest of [del]y’all[/del] you, you know, given about ⅓ of the posts are about me, you could have invited me to participate. :o
We knew you would swing by sooner or later.
Where the hell have you been? Oh, right.
You’re the one with the spidey sense. Mary Jane says you’ve been drinking again. 
Actually, I have been known to spend the night with him.
It also required a swing with rigid arms instead of flexible chains/ropes/webs.
Let’s keep my hobby out of this. 
My mother and her siblings fondly recall swinging on “grapevines” (as they describe them) across a creek when they were children. The vines would grow up the trees next to the creek and then hang down. Ergo, the issue of the base of the vine being rooted is not a problem.
BTW: I used the “creek” spelling despite their “crick” pronunciation.
Why the quotes around “grapevines”?
And to rural folks (or at least, the rural folks to whom I’m related), there’s a difference between a creek and a crick.
They weren’t really grapevines. Just some type of vine.
I did this, too as a kid. We discovered some fairly supple vines in the woods we played in and found that we could loosen them from the trees and then swing on them. Not over a creek, but just running out around the tree on the high side, and swinging around to the other side of the tree. Loads of fun, at the time.
I thought they were specifically lianas?
I can’t imagine what other sort of vine they’d be, in the continental US, and grapevines are quite common and can be used as you describe.
Hey Spiderman, how does your wall crawling abilities work when you’re wearing gloves and boots 
Poison oak…
OMG Maureen O’Sullivan in those little shorties! Only Johnny W himself ever had a nicer ass…