Ice Breaker: The goal of “thinking beyond our thoughts” or metacognitive strategies is to help us become comfortable with developing strategy. Why is this so vitally important to us as humans, riggers, and rescuers? We as people, especially in today’s world, tend to take the easy way out and “believe” what we are told and this […]
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Website https://www.thecrackerjackgroup.com/ Email info@thecrackerjackgroup.com Craig McClure Rigging Lab Academy Instructor | Craig McClure Of The Crackerjack Group Craig is a 14+ year Search and Rescue veteran in the Pacific Northwest and is the founder of The Crackerjack Group. Craig is a founding member and instructor with the International Technical Rescue Association. He’s currently a SAR
I’ve had a lot of bad ideas so I get pretty excited when I have a good one. The Crackerjack Group recently held a “flyer” of a class we dubbed The Dirtbag Clinic.. and it worked. The idea came about because we had some friends in town for the Mountain Rescue Association Conference and they
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I’ve known Craig for many years now and felt super comfortable in having him lead our workshops over the last six months. During this time, we pooled some ideas together and wondered what a mega-course might look like. Knowing the work and resources it took to finish and produce our amazingly successful 5 Day Advance
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Hey all, I wanted to give a quick run down of some niche comparisons. Most pulley manufactures today make amazing gear. When I say most, I mean those within the centric conformity of standards, safety and accountability. We’ll be looking at CMC, Rock Exotica, and Petzl … and then, only a niched down subset of
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Mid way through the 2018 season, there was a shift in the industrial rigging arena. I saw this coming years ago, but quite wasn’t sure as to how the blending of Harken into the rope access and rescue space would happen; this was 2010. It was to come through the open-door of Elevated Safety. Now
Most people, at the end of each year, stand back and reflect on what was, what is and what should have been. An epoch season and epic events both apply to myself, our company and those around us. To date, we have produced somewhere between 600 and 700 technical rigging and rescue videos and has
A few years ago, we had a very cool time and space with CMC Rescue (now simply… CMC). This project was a dream world of live training, film production and in-use product defining. Here is snapshot of what transpired. Mitigating “edge trauma”, as many call it… is likely the most arduous job of any rigger
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If you’ve been following Rigging Lab Academy at all for the last year or so, it is clear there has been a large emphasis placed on the Artificial High Directional. There are so many reasons why this is, and if you haven’t quite been brought up to speed yet, check out some previous blogs and
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Hey all, as I have been going through our plans for the coming 5 months (the rest of 2018), I noticed there have been “windows of thought” where the layout of courses, technical content, equipment reviews and generally the flow of information (from the field) could use some improving and this got me thinking about
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