It can be hard to wake up, show up and build up without a plan and opportunity to expand horizons for yourself and those around you. Build up can become “blow up!” So in keeping the theme of The Gap and The Gain, this 3 Win Day requires a “retraining” for most of us and …
How to Create a 3-Win Day – Wake Up, Show Up & Build Up! Read More »
As fire departments, technical rope rescue and search & rescue teams are increasingly turning to online training for their continuing education needs, it is important to understand the potential savings that can be achieved. Training online can save an organization significant amounts of money in terms of travel costs, instructor fees and administrative costs associated …
It is not uncommon for me to get a questions pertaining to a list of topics to be covered for training rescue teams. This can vary greatly for obvious reasons.. Each of these topics vary in depth depending on the team, qualifications and goals. Rope rescue is a critical skill for fire departments and search …
Technical rope rescue is a complex and multi-layered strategy. It involves goals, projects and systems that are designed to work together to achieve successful outcomes. Each part of the system should be tailored to meet the specific needs of a technical rescue situation, ensuring the greatest chance of success. There is no one-size-fits-all approach when …
A Discipline Life Part 6: Goals vs Projects vs Systems Read More »
The following information is tilted towards building a solid rope rescue and rigging team, but I would be remiss to say that it applies to thousands of other “purposes”, but also to the inanimacy of a “rigging system” as a whole or in part. By viewing your rigging systems as an organic makeup of living …
No Implementation Means Flushing Your Strategy and Tactics Down The Drain Read More »
Excerpt from The Cornerstone: Knowledge & Perception What exactly is a Journey? The Latin adjective “diurnus” means “pertaining to a day or daily”; English diurnal stems ultimately from this word. When Latin developed into French, “diurnus” became a noun, jour, meaning “day,” the medieval French derivative Journee meant either “day” or “something done during …
Vision is vital to growth. Growth as a person. Growth as a leader. Growth as a business. Growth as steward. Vision also must deal with a whole new learning curve. Adding Something Means You Have To Remove Something Pretty much anyone who does anything for any length of time will eventually have to start over. …
Technical Articles | Anchors Part 1 This will be the first of a two-part series on anchors. This section, purposely, will not include situations that necessitate vehicles, pickets or other such portable anchors. Nor is the series meant to be an exhaustive source of information… there are numerous books on this subject. If you have …
I always appreciate great video. Video (to me) is either aesthetic or technical and trying to bridge both is tough. This video from CMC is clearly technical, but I really appreciate the angles of perspective. So often the “clarifying message” of “the how” can get completely lost if the angles are not right. The CMC …
Double CLUTCH | Using the CLUTCH In a Twin Tension Rope System (TTRS) Read More »
Excerpt from Knots & Pulleys in Rope Rigging Systems Vol. 1 Segment 7 Let’s continue with our discussion on pulley systems. We can look at what we have right here. You can see the Vortex and we have a sandbag as a weight right now. What we have here in the way of a …
Staggered Anchors: Progression from 3:1 to 9:1 Simple Mechanical Advantage Read More »
