First hammock was the backyard cotton rope/oak spreader bar tippy kind hung between 2 trees...could not ever imagine sleeping in that!

First CAMPING hammock was a DIY I put together to see if I would like sleeping in a hammock, after finding this forum. The first time I hung it up and got into it, I fell to the ground and cracked a rib in my back! The problem was that I hung it using a marlin spike hitch, but had unknowingly picked up a rotten stick to use as the toggle, and the stick broke when I climbed in. Fortunately, this did not deter me from hammocking.