With the new launch of Confined Space Rescue: Awareness, Operations and Technician, we felt it important to get some introduction going.  Below is a little bio of Team Ronin.  However, check out the recent series of four interviews with Mark Pfeifer, CEO and Co-Founder of Ronin Rescue.  Ronin’s philosophy is…

Time for transparency here.  Highlines versus Offsets.  Which is one of these accomplishes the goal of moving the person or load from one side to the other in the most effective and efficient manner? Well, at this point I wasn’t thinking about either one… I really didn’t care. I hadn’t…

Today at Rigging Lab Academy, we’re going to bust this myth that parallel mechanical advantage systems somehow add together and double mechanical advantage. There are arguments out there that two 3:1s side by side pulled on the same load are a 6:1, or two 5:1s are a 10:1. It’s not…

The Story For a long time you were the lone wolf.  Making decisions about life and your team’s future and basing the decisions off of what you thought would be best… without much input from others. We’ve all been in that place and now… we need to rethink how we…

Search and Rescue (SAR) members are a crossbred group of heroes that often spend an ungodly amount of time trying fix what others have broken; they are either lost, hurt and damaged, trapped or stuck in places and on things that sometimes defy logic. They do it mostly out of…

Before any rope zealot goes over the edge, before even the first anchor is set, the most important step of any rigging job must be taken: The scene size up, or job hazard analysis, depending on your industry. Much has been written and recited regarding the art of the size…