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Capacity Planning For Rescue Rigging: “The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry”

By Lance Piatt / Blog, Lance Piatt, Team Competencies, Technical Learning / 7 Comments

“The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry” or better said “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men” is a poem about “life, death, planning and strategy”… not always going as planned. According to legend, Robert Burns was ploughing in the fields and accidentally destroyed a mouse’s nest, which it needed to survive the winter. Oops! No matter how carefully a project is planned, something may still go wrong with it. The …

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Want to Increase Your Learning Capacity? Match Your Metacognition with Your Cognition…

By Lance Piatt / Blog, Lance Piatt, Team Competencies, Technical Learning, Two (Twin) Tension Rope Systems / 33 Comments

The learning process is fascinating to me. We are created unique in every area of our lives. Is it any wonder why every few years there are new break-throughs in slowing the aging process, fitness, health, mental capacity, technology and learning. Ever heard of “metacognition”? I hadn’t until more recently. What you are about to …

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Two Tension System-Vertical and Horizontal Evacuation Part 1: In-Line 9 Using A Petzl Jag System Is An Easy Solution!

By Lance Piatt / Blog, Lance Piatt, Petzl, Pulleys & Mechanical Advantage, RRG Gear Review, Two (Twin) Tension Rope Systems, Two Tensioned Rope Rescue Systems / 7 Comments

The other day I walked into the studio (Neverland) armed with one goal for the morning… build a system that is Functionality Efficient in Gear Efficient in People Efficient in Physics AHD Based Small Team Based One Person Load Very Reproducible Raise Only Based (but with a margin of error that allows for downward adjustments… …

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LAUNCH Into Rigging System Solutions: It Is Easier Than You Think

By Lance Piatt / Blog, Lance Piatt, Technical Learning / 26 Comments

So having just come back from a weekend with a bunch of nerds… rigging nerds, I realized a great many things and while I am still pontificating most of the information, I came away with a way to help me bridge the information into something practical and useful. So here is a super quick, down …

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Want to be a Creative Rigger?: The 8 Stages to Live in Creativity

By Lance Piatt / Blog, Lance Piatt, Team Competencies / 1,228 Comments

Creativity is not a mystery. We are meant and created to be… creative. But just like every tool in the shop, or every piece of gear in the cache, we all have varying degrees of talents and skills. Creativity is not a rare insight, that only rare and odd people have. No! Creativity is a …

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Concepts in Thought: The Direction is Up and Off!

By Lance Piatt / Blog, Lance Piatt, Principles of Learning / 6 Comments

You know how excruciatingly hard it is to negotiate any sort of edge without some sort of “blood bath”. You have given your life and soul to a purpose… to save lives and mitigate the challenges that would put you in the same sort of predicament your patient is in. An “edge” is going from …

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Anchors: The Underpinning of Everything That Has a System Attached to It

By Lance Piatt / Anchors, Blog, Lance Piatt, Safe Practices / 4,070 Comments

Building an anchor system requires much practice and experience. When dealing with structures, chose anchor points which are part of the inherent structure of the building. This includes columns, beams, anchors for window cleaning equipment, and elevator housings. Avoid corroded metal, weathered stonework, and deteriorated mortar. Avoid using vents, flashing, gutters, and chimneys. When using …

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What is your Signature Theme?

By Lance Piatt / Blog, Lance Piatt

So what is a Signature Theme? A Signature Theme presents your five most dominant themes of talent that provide true insight into the core reasons behind your consistent successes. I get the question “what makes you tick?” a lot. I love it. It isn’t “what do you do for a living?” or “how are you?” …

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The Difference Between Leading and Bleeding=Changing The World

By Lance Piatt / Blog, Lance Piatt

To change the world, leading will always have some bleeding, but never mistake bleeding for leading. Almost every one of us feel at some point that we can or should be a part of changing the world. Now, before you brush this off, think about it. We all have opinions right? We make judgements towards, …

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Hybridize Your Processes

By Lance Piatt / Blog, Designing Your Processes, Lance Piatt / 131 Comments

I guess the question at hand is do we really understand our systems and what they are truly capable of? And with all the talk about catastrophic failures… what exactly is a catastrophic failure anyway? Under manufacturer’s specs, it isn’t the rope (good ropes don’t snap). When was the last time you saw a knot explode? The …

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