Double Bass Endpin Sliding While Playing

[hpc364]

Any durable solution ?

[pete.young]

Stick a rubber doorstop on the spike.

[Beedster]

Nice playing. Yes a rubber piece will help. Try perhaps being more in touch with the bass to provide greater stability, it might be the camera angle but it looks quite far from you?

[Happy Jack]

As near as I can make out, he's playing sitting down.

[hpc364]

48 minutes ago, Beedster said:

Nice playing. Yes a rubber piece will help. Try perhaps being more in touch with the bass to provide greater stability, it might be the camera angle but it looks quite far from you?

Far is not the right word... It's farer than far.

And yes, you are right, when I tried to play in thumb position the instrument began to slide.

[JPJ]

I'm relatively new to double bass but experienced this for the first time at a recent gig with a lovely polished wood floor. My bass has one of these on the end pin, but it was still sliding. So much so that I am thinking about buying or making something like this to attach to my stool leg and sit the end pin in.

[simonlittle]

Assuming you don’t have a rubber foot on the endpin, the easiest solution is to get a bit of carpet and stick the end pin on that and one leg of the stool on the other end. Or you could try a rubber stopper of some sort; either a donut like cellists use or perhaps one of these 

https://www.thestringzone.co.uk/stoppin-floor-protector-large?gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAD_dcWv6G_ehrX06dOF4pZZK2wR-J&gclid=Cj0KCQiA19e8BhCVARIsALpFMgHmM4Ihe6wu_Earq5soOyfHpig0QaNYzTvto_flw12ad_UZxtBlZDIaAui0EALw_wcB

To be honest, even with a rubber foot on the endpin, on certain floor surfaces it just bloody happens and it’s annoying. I have rubber feet on both my uprights and there’s one regular gig I do that I just know the bass will slide all over the place. 
It’d be good to figure out a solution sooner rather than later to help address the distance you are from the bass. On a slippy floor it’s very tempting (necessary even) to hold the bass very upright but it’s far better to have it lean into you at an angle; especially for going further up the neck. 
Good luck!

[hpc364]

17 minutes ago, simonlittle said:

Assuming you don’t have a rubber foot on the endpin, the easiest solution is to get a bit of carpet and stick the end pin on that and one leg of the stool on the other end. Or you could try a rubber stopper of some sort; either a donut like cellists use or perhaps one of these 

https://www.thestringzone.co.uk/stoppin-floor-protector-large?gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAD_dcWv6G_ehrX06dOF4pZZK2wR-J&gclid=Cj0KCQiA19e8BhCVARIsALpFMgHmM4Ihe6wu_Earq5soOyfHpig0QaNYzTvto_flw12ad_UZxtBlZDIaAui0EALw_wcB

To be honest, even with a rubber foot on the endpin, on certain floor surfaces it just bloody happens and it’s annoying. I have rubber feet on both my uprights and there’s one regular gig I do that I just know the bass will slide all over the place. 
It’d be good to figure out a solution sooner rather than later to help address the distance you are from the bass. On a slippy floor it’s very tempting (necessary even) to hold the bass very upright but it’s far better to have it lean into you at an angle; especially for going further up the neck. 
Good luck!

The other day my wife (who loves me more than a lot) bought me a rubber carpet and I said it wouldn't work and there was something they sell to avoid things that usually happen to me.

After dinner, I took the rubber carpet... My God ! It works more than I expected and you know what ? I play better ! I do it all over the neck.

[simonlittle]

It’s a win! Well done Mrs hpc364! 👌