of rip stop sutures the rip stop sutures have not been load sharing and therefore have been less protective of poor quality tissues than the rip stop sutures of the present invention the present invention provides a unique approach for challenging rotator cuff repairs that include either poor tendon quality or a short medial tendon stump using exemplary fibertape u00ae suture tapes and swivelock u00ae anchors for reinforcement fibertape u00ae is 2 fiberwire u00ae with a 2 mm wide overbraid that has been shown to have 30 higher resistance to pulling through tendon than standard 2 suture and can be used to augment a single row repair using fixation devices such as corkscrew u00ae ft suture anchors one or two fibertape u00ae sutures are used to create the rip stop the fibertape u00ae sutures are secured laterally with knotless swivelock u00ae anchors in a modified speedfix u2122 repair that not only reinforces the medial stitches but also shares the load carried by the simple sutures two preferred embodiments of the technique of the present invention single and dual rip stop are now described with reference to the drawings fig1 a 1f illustrate schematic views of an anchor based rip stop rotator cuff repair for a rotator cuff tear with lateral tendon loss left shoulder lateral to medial view fig1 a in this rotator cuff.