Monster Safety Strap System 2.0

I love how tight these straps are, and they have very little droop. They can be hard to adjust as a result, but replacing one 5/8 bolt with a 5/8 mag pin makes them perfect!

These were a massive upgrade for my gym. They are a bit expensive for something that seems pretty simple, but they are really great at doing their job. You have to get used to not being able to take them off your rack without taking the whole strap system apart. Pros and cons just like anything else. But they are a great piece.

Straps were my first choice for safety. I'm not sure if they truly are safer when compared to the other two options - pins or safety arms. I selected the straps because I assume they'd be more forgiving on the bar if I had to bail out of a movement.

These have saved us so many bars at our gym I love them, as a gym owner I will never buy metal pins for safeties every again Also there so much quieter for pin presses and rack pulls

Made the switch from pin and pipe years ago and it was definitely one of my better decisions. The straps have a little give when you 1st hit them so it doesn't impede your squat if one side hits a strap. They are a little expensive for what they are but, they are built to last...The Monster straps fit my EliteFTS 3x3 perfectly.

These are great option to stay safe and not damage your bars (or body). But wowzers these are so annoying to setup. They literally force me to change how I lift to avoid having to reconfigure them. A nightmare to mess with on the Indy functional trainer as they conflict with the trolley path so it’s a game of back and forth to install. THE ONLY WAY to overcome this and it’s still irritating is to use mag pins instead of the 5/8th bolt. Even with that I still find myself saying ‘screw it, I’ll go without’. My wife and I will both do this until we see each other doing it and chew the other one out. They at least don’t take up space like other options and in my mind the pipes would be the only thing worse than this. Sadly I think the order of suck is pipes, then these, then going without any, then spotter arms if you have the space.

They work and are solid. They look cool on a monster. The issue is they can be clunky to set making me many times not bother moving them. The lord is my spotter.

I use these every session, even touch and go deadlifts 2 sessions a week. I own Monster flip downs, aspotter arms and these and by far these are my go to. My only issue is how slow it is to move up and down, you can only go around 6 jumps each side at a time. In the last 2 weeks I've got the Rep utility bench and it came with 5/8 pop pins which work a treat for replacing the bolts

I love the functionality, although mine were made poorly so the heads of the screws that hold the UHMW protection pieces in stand proud and have scratched my rack up. I'll fix that but annoyed it scratched up my rack before I caught it.

These are nice in the fact that you if have an accident and dump a nice bar, you likely wont damage it. However their main purpose seems to be just for safety. You can't really use them for pin presses, pin squats, or rack pulls too well as apposed to straight metal bar spotting racks. Also if you need to move them anymore than like 5 spaces each it's tricky to do. You either have to make your arms wide and do both at the same time, or do each one 5 or so at a time