Get a Grip

Get a Grip is a recurring endurance challenge that originated in and has since been used in several later seasons.
==Rules ==
The castaways must hang onto a pole for as long as they can. They may not hold on to the top of the pole to support themselves, but must instead rely on footholds. The last person left holding on without touching the ground wins.
==History==
===United States===
This challenge debuted in as the final eight Immunity Challenge. Played in the middle of a drizzle that made the poles slippery, Twila Tanner ultimately outlasted Chad Crittenden after an unspecified amount of time to win immunity.
The challenge was again used as the first individual Immunity Challenge in after the merge. After 2 hours and 15 minutes and a heavy storm settling in partway through the challenge, Ozzy Lusth ultimately outlasted Candice Woodcock to win immunity.
In , this challenge was once again the first individual Immunity Challenge after the merge. Tyson Apostol ultimately outlasted Debbie Beebe after over thirty minutes to win immunity.
In , the challenge was again the first post-merge Immunity Challenge. After over 1 hour and 35 minutes, the last Hero, Candice Woodcock, inexplicably stepped down, leaving Villain allies Danielle DiLorenzo and Parvati Shallow to cut a deal to allow Danielle to win immunity.
In , the challenge was used as the final duel. After over 40 minutes, Ozzy Lusth defeated Brandon Hantz, permanently eliminating Brandon, and allowing Ozzy to re-enter the game.
In , the challenge was used again used as Redemption Island duel, this time to re-enter the game at the merge. After over 20 minutes, John Cody fell off first, followed by Laura Boneham, allowing Laura Morett to win. John and Laura B. were permanently eliminated, while Laura M. was able to re-enter the game.
In , the challenge was once again the first individual Immunity Challenge. After around an hour, Joe Anglim ultimately outlasted Carolyn Rivera in the middle of a rainstorm to win immunity.
In , the challenge appeared as the final twelve Immunity Challenge. Tai Trang ultimately outlasted Ozzy Lusth after 1 hour and 35 minutes to win immunity.
In , the challenge was again the first individual Immunity Challenge, with both the longest-lasting man and woman winning. After an unspecified amount of time in pouring rain, Denise Stapley outlasted Kim Spradlin-Wolfe to win immunity for the women, while Jeremy Collins ultimately held on longer than Nick Wilson to claim immunity for the men.
In , the challenge was used ahead of the Double Elimination at the final twelve. The Dakuwaqa tribe was split into two groups of six, with the person lasting the longest on each group winning immunity, and the person lasting the longest overall winning reward for their tribe. Kellie Nalbandian outlasted everyone on the blue team, while Dee Valladares outlasted everyone on the red team before beating Kellie to win a trip to the Survivor Sanctuary for her group.
In Survivor 46, the challenge reappeared as the final ten immunity challenge. Prior to the challenge, Jeff offered the members of the Nuinui tribe a chance to earn enough rice to last the rest of the game if four of them gave up their shot at immunity; only Liz Wilcox and Q Burdette offered to sit out, much to the latter's frustration. The challenge came down to Charlie Davis and Hunter McKnight, with Hunter outlasting Charlie after over twenty minutes to win immunity.
===Australia===
In , the challenge was used as the third individual immunity challenge. Kylie Evans won the challenge after over six hours when Brooke Jowett agreed to step down in exchange for a letter from home.
In , the challenge appeared as a duel, where the last two people voted out of the Fire tribe, Baden Cooke and Hayley Leake, competed to return into the game. For 20 minutes, Baden struggled to maintain his grip on the log, while Hayley hung on comfortably. In the end, Baden dropped first and was eliminated from the game, becoming the first member of the jury.
=== France ===
=== New Zealand ===
===Quebec===
=== Russia (Unofficial) ===
The challenge was used as the first individual Immunity Challenge in Serdtse Afriki after the merge. After 1 hour and 26 minutes, Samir Makhmudov outlasted Roman Lebedev to win immunity.
===South Africa===
The challenge appeared in as the Final Immunity Challenge. Under torrential rain, the final three held on to slippery poles in a bid to get a spot in the Final Two. Shortly before the 45-minute mark, Bonnie Henna gave up and opted to bail out. After one hour, the rain had subsided, and the final two contestants standing restated their resolve to keep holding on. Two hours in, the storms returned and, at 2 hours and 58 minutes, Hykie Berg slipped and Letshego Moshoeu won her third Immunity Challenge.
In , the challenge was used as the first post-merge Immunity Challenge. After 3 hours and 15 minutes, Anesu Mbizvo dropped out, allowing Kiran Naidoo to win immunity.
=== United Kingdom ===
==Winners==
<tabber>United States=
Episode	Challenge Type 	Winners 	Winners
 	Individual Immunity	colspan="2"	
 	Individual Immunity	colspan="2"	
 	Individual Immunity	colspan="2"	
 	Individual Immunity	colspan="2"	
 	Duel 	colspan="2"	
 	Duel 	colspan="2"	
 	Individual Immunity	colspan="2"	
 	Individual Immunity	colspan="2"	
 	Individual Immunity	 	
 	Individual Immunity	 	
 	Team Reward 	colspan="2"	
 	Individual Immunity	colspan="2"	
|-|Australia=
Episode 	Challenge Type 	Winners
Episode 17	Individual Immunity	
Episode 14	Individual Immunity	
Episode 15	Duel 	
Episode 16	Team Reward 	
|-|France=
Episode 	Challenge Type 	Winners
Episode 11	Individual Reward 	
Episode 9 	Individual Immunity 	
Episode 10	Individual Immunity 	
Episode 11	Individual Immunity 	
Episode 9 	Individual Immunity 	
Episode 7 	Individual Immunity 	
Episode 9 	Individual Immunity 	
Episode 12	Individual Immunity 	
Episode 9 	Team Reward(Tied Destinies)	
Episode 9 	Individual Immunity 	
|-|New Zealand=
Episode 	Challenge Type 	Winners
Episode 13	Individual Immunity	
|-|Quebec=
Episode 	Challenge Type 	Winners
Episode 61	Individual Immunity	
|-|Russia (Unofficial)={| class="wikitable" style="margin:auto; text-align:center; font-size: 8pt; line-height:18px;"
! Episode
! Challenge Type
! Winners
|-
| Serdtse AfrikiEpisode 9
| Individual Immunity
| 
|}
|-|South Africa=
{|class="wikitable" style="margin:auto; text-align:center; font-size: 8pt; white-space:nowrap; line-height:18px;"
! Episode
! Challenge Type
! Winners
|-
|Episode 13
| Individual Immunity(Final Immunity)
|
|-
| 
| Individual Immunity
| colspan="2" 
|-|United Kingdom=
Episode 	Challenge Type 	Winners
Episode 11	Individual Immunity	
</tabber>
==Gallery==
<tabber>United States=
Vanuatu get a grip.jpg|Alinta competes in .
Immunitychallengecookis.jpg|Aitutonga competes in 
IMMUNITY CHALLENGE GET A GRIP 1808.jpg|Forza competes in .
Get-a-grip-heroes-vs-villains.png|The challenge in .
Survivor-23-ozze-brandon-redemption.jpg|Ozzy and Brandon duel to re-enter the game in .
s27 press images ep8 0002.jpg|John, Laura M., and Laura B. duel to re-enter the game in .
S30 press images ep7 0009.jpg|The challenge in .
Get a grip gc.png|Maku Maku competes in .
S40E08 IC.jpg|The challenge in .
|-|Australia=
S3Ep14 GetAGrip11 900x506.jpg|Koro Savu starts the challenge in .
aus08e15 baden get a grip.jpg|Baden competing to return to the game. ()
Aus10e16 simon nina chimney sweep.jpg|Simon and Nina compete for reward in .
aus10e16 hayley george chimney sweep.jpg|Hayley and George competing in Heroes v Villains.
 |-|France=
Kls3.ep11.jpg|The challenge in .
Kls4.ep9.jpg|The challenge in .
Kls5.e10.jpg|The challenge in .
Kls8.ep11.jpg|The challenge in .
KLS15 Ep9 Get a Grip.jpg|The challenge in .
Kls18.ep7.jpg|The challenge in .
KLS22 Ep9 Get a Grip.png|The challenge in .
Kls22.ep9.jpg|Clémence competing in Le Combat des Héros.
Kls23.ep12.jpg|The challenge in .
KLS26 Ep9 Get a Grip.png|The challenge in .
Kls28.EP9.png|The challenge in .
|-|New Zealand=
SNZ2Ep13.png|Phsan competing in .
|-|Quebec=
Qc1e63 pagasa get a grip.jpg|Pag-Asa competing in .
|-|Russia (Unofficial)=
Sun first individual immunity challenge.jpg|The challenge in Serdtse Afriki.
|-|South Africa=
Zas04e13 eku get a grip.png|The final three competing in their Final Immunity Challenge. ()
ZAS8 Get a Grip.jpg|Osindile competing in .
</tabber>
==Trivia== 
*The name of the challenge is from an album.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umShoPJuU9s
*This is the second challenge in which a returning player has won the same challenge twice. Ozzy Lusth won this challenge in the , and later in . The first challenge to have this distinction was the When It Rains, It Pours challenge, which was won by Parvati Shallow in and .
*This challenge has been used as a duel twice. Both times, it was won by a returning player who re-entered the game.
**However, this occurrence happened at different stages of the game. In South Pacific, Ozzy won this challenge at the second re-entry point at the final five, while Laura Morett won at the first re-entry point at the merge in .
*With the exception of Twila Tanner, every castaway who has won this challenge has competed in more than one season.
*Of the 20 contestants to compete against Ozzy Lusth over three seasons, only Tai Trang has outlasted him in this challenge.
* This challenge made an appearance in every season Candice Cody, J.T. Thomas, and Tyson Apostol participated in.
**However, each of them only competed in the challenge twice.
*In , the poles were 13 feet high.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umShoPJuU9s
==References==
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Category:Survivor: Worlds Apart
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