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

By / 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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What’s the #1  leadership and team building mistake rope rescue technician’s make?

By / Arizona Vortex, Artificial High Directional AHD, Dynamic Directional, Elevated Anchor Systems, Horizontal Rigging, Leadership, Portable Anchors, Principles of Learning, Professional Standards, Safe Practices, Team Competencies, Technical Learning, Twin Tension Rope System, Twin Tension Rope System Clutch, Two (Twin) Tension Rope Systems, Two Rope Offsets, Two Tensioned Rope Rescue Systems / 229 Comments

The year was 2003… almost 5 years post my bellwether event in Sedona. These “leaders” had shown me not just an existence of something new, but of a direction of a trend of things to come. During these years, I had taken other courses and had become much more familiar with “the vertical terrain”. Mind …

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Why are Rescue and Rigging Anchors More Important than Anything Else?

By / Anchors, Blog, Horizontal Rigging, Technical Learning / 30 Comments

In our heads, we know that anchors are the most important part of any rigging or rescue system.  We know that because it has been drilled into our skulls, but I would venture to say that the reasons for this is inescapably unclear for many.   My goal here is to simply bring about a …

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10 Concepts Powered To Increase Your Teaching and Learning

By / Blog, Team Competencies, Technical Learning / 8 Comments

We’ve passed the age of whether or not to include online learning to our cache of educational options… It is here and if you’re not in the midst of learning via online modes you are already behind.  This is especially true for rescue and rigging folks.  It isn’t that rope rescue rigging systems and equipment …

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Capturing Your Passions Even When Your Aren’t Looking For Them: Inspiration, Motivation or Interest?

By / Blog, Technical Learning / 10 Comments

“SET YOUR OWN STANDARDS, AND I PERSONALLY THINK YOU SHOULD SET THEM VERY HIGH.” Let’s start with a compression-tension example for life… pulling and pushing forces. Inspiration is something that you feel on the inside, while motivation is something from the outside that compels you to take action. Inspiration is a driving force, while motivation …

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Tools vs Knowledge And Which Is More Important?

By / Blog, Principles of Learning, Team Competencies, Technical Learning / 2,756 Comments

So before I jump into this, let’s get the definition correct here.  Knowing there are deflected meanings to words these days, I am not referring to people or a person as a “tool” ( The Urban Dictionary has it this way… A guy with a hugely over-inflated ego, who in an attempt to get un-due …

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The Omni Of The Rope Rescue and Rigging Pulley World: Rock Exotica Omni-Block Swivel Pulleys

By / Blog, Rock Exotica, RRG Gear Review, Technical Learning / 9 Comments

The Omni Of The Rope Rescue and Rigging Pulley World: Rock Exotica Omni-Block Swivel Pulleys So what exactly does “Omni” mean?   The designers of the Omni Block pulley have some very elevated claims about their product.  Here are a few definitions of the word “omni”. Combining Form Without Limits In All Ways and Places …

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

By / 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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A Quick Overview of The Basics of the T-Method For Calculating Mechanical Advantage

By / Blog, Richard Delaney, Technical Learning / 22 Comments

The ‘T-system’ for calculating Mechanical Advantage   At their simplest, pulleys can be viewed as levers. This becomes more obvious if you consider the static system (where everything is at rest). To understand the ‘T-system’ for calculating Mechanical Advantage always start with the input (the effort end of the system) and assume that force of …

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The Confusing World of ANSI Standards Just Got Easier

By / Personal Competencies, Petzl, Professional Standards, Specialty Rescue Tower Kits, Technical Learning / 1 Comment

INTRODUCTION TO ANSI STANDARDS An American National Standard implies a consensus of those substantially concerned with its scope and provisions. An American National Standard is intended as a guide to aid the manufacturer, the consumer, and the general public. The existence of an American National Standard does not in any respect preclude anyone, whether they …

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