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 »
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 »
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 true, and we’re going to …
Parallel Hauls, Doubled Mechanical Advantage or Not? Read More »
I’ll admit it. I’m guilty. I’ve done it. Nope, I’m not talking about stepping on the rope, using dropped carabiners, or mistakenly peeing on my belay loop… c’mon winter layers can be a challenge! Nope, I’m talking about what I’ll call “carabiner shaming.” Like many, I used to pick apart photos on the interwebs to …
I want to pull back a bit a bring into focus what we do and why we do it. Having spent some time with our county SAR team and one of its technical team members, I grappled with a particular question… especially near the end of my time with the team. A great friend of mine, …
Always Be Ready When The Call Comes: We Have A Purpose Read More »
“Something is brewing from the west”… sounds like a tale from Lord of the Rings. Well, that isn’t to far from the truth. As I woke up this morning… hot coffee with my Laird Superfood in hand, my mood was somewhat whimsical. I have large window to my left… open space, trees blowing… ice everywhere! …
Something Is Brewing From the West: How It All Started Read More »
Hopefully you’ve already seen part one of this series Passing Knots Introduction: A Rope Rescue and Rigging Primer You Must Know – Using The MPD (Part 1) where we showed how to pass a knot through a CMC MPD on both raise and lower. Now we’ll show knot passes through a Scarab (lower) and pulley and prusik …
I have heard it said that “a lesson in creativity is like taking a calligraphy class; you never know when something you learn might end up being useful in a place you’d never expect” and for longest time, I didn’t understand what they meant. Until I looked into calligraphy. I mean really… who in the …
Everyone has seen crazy heroics in movies right? Yet, most (strangely enough) don’t ask ” how is that actually done”? We know that often, movies use CG to do a lot of the work right? Well, not all of it. Much of the work done with movies like 127 Hours, or Vertical Limit, K2, Eiger …
Travel Restraint System in Search and Rescue So, we’ve talked about the three different systems we’re going to use. Right now we’re going to go into some detail on travel restraint. And travel restraint is just that. It is designed to restrain you from traveling to the point where you could fall. It can be …
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