Setting up a Stretchy tent is (usually) pretty easy. Follow the guide below to learn how to set up your own Stretchy tent.

1. How windy is it? Fokken windy if you live in Cape Town. You might need someone to help you hold bits of your Stretchy if it's blowing a gale.
2. Unfold your Stretchy tent in the space that you want to be under shade.
3. Thread your moerse-long rope through all the loops along the edge of your Stretchy.
4. Depending on how much privacy you want, allow for ±1 meter of rope at each of the four corners. 
5. Make a simple loop knot with the rope, right on each of the corners, so all the tension in your stretchy will be spread across the edges.
6. At one of the corners, moer in a bit of rebar.
7. At the corner with the rebar, hook one end of your rope through.
8. Now do the same rebar and rope combo at the other 3 corners, noting that your Stretchy does not need to be super-tight at this stage. A bit of flapping around is a good thing.
9. It's time for a bit of hide and seek! Grab a pole and pop a tennis ball on the end of it, and climb underneath your Stretchy
10. Raise the roof! Lift your pole, balls upward and then wedge in the ground when you've got enough tension.
11. Repeat with as many poles and balls as you want to. A basic lekker Stretchy only needs 4 poles near each of the corners.
12. Adjust as necessary. If the tent is too tight to put up your poles, release some rope, or move your rebar closer to give some slack.
13. Sit under your lovely Stretchy tent, crack open a drink and put your feet up before looking for someone to help you with whatever you're going to be doing underneath it.