Raph and the Peter Straps

The Peter Straps is a circus apparatus that was created in 1996 by a gymnastics and circus coach, Pierre Carrier. He worked with two young acrobats, Raphaël Fréchette and Chantal Houle creating the vocabulary of acrobatics moves that would be performed. Raphaël Fréchette showed the world this new discipline at les piste au espoir in Belgium in 1999. He won gold in the professional category, the press award as well as the coveted children's jury award.

The straps are best described by the pictures below. They are two nylon straps 3 inches wide and 18 feet long pull tight with over 3000 lbs of tension. On these straps numerous acrobatics are performed.