I believe early on in this thread people were being cautious. I will still say build yourself a featherweight first. The amount of knowledge you can gain will help you on your way to build a heavyweight. Its all fine and dandy to say your parents are backing you but i think your parents dont really understand the task ahead. If i were your parents i would be looking and asking on the forum whats involved in a heavyweight robot.

I personally would start either with one of jonno's ratz or a simple featherweight.

Jonno aparently ticking everyone off........well i think the community were more concerned about your saftey not putting you off building a heavyweight.

Gary had the best idea.......if you really really sure you and your parents can handle a heavy the best thing to do is wait for one to come up for sale and then have a serious lesson on how it works and how to play.