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A Shout Out To Many Who Have Stood By Us Through Thick And Thin: Vision Is Always Within Your Grasp

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 […]

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Atmosphere Determines The Strategy and Tactics Which Determines The Rigging For Confined Space Rope Rescue

The following excerpt is Mark Pfeifer of Ronin Rescue during an interview with Lance Piatt of Rigging Lab Academy. “So we reached out a year or so ago and started looking at confined space. There’s a lot of video on rope rescue, a lot of cool highline failure videos you can watch. There wasn’t a

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The Creative Mystique: Heroes Are Made When The Function Of Rescue Meets The Higher Expectations Of Designed Rigging

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

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You Will Never Look at Small Gear Small Team Rescue the Same Again

I am pretty excited about the future of our community.  Folks are talking more about what is important and designers, builders, techies, manufacturers, and instructors are all listening to each other… for the most part. 🙂 We are surrounded by amazing people. I have long desired to have a playground to build and adventure into things

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A Quick Look at a Tower Rescue Tracking Skate Block (Hybrid) System

Earlier in 2018, we had a great time hanging out with the Elevated Safety crew to learn more about (and film) Tower Rescue and what Technicians need to understand.  The result is an amazing course focused primarily on Offset techniques.  This is an excerpt from that course… Tower Rescue Technician. A quick look at a

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RLA Live: Volcano Rescue Team

I just got back from RLA’s first ever Live On-site training in Mt. St. Helens National Monument with the Volcano Rescue Team. It was awesome, I loved connecting with these amazing people.  They ranged from full time EMS professionals, self employed designers, engineers, freelancers, mechanics, guides and a host of other passions and occupations. Jason

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Rig-For-Rescue / Suspension Trauma

The Following Article is provided to you by Richard Delaney of RopeTest Lab and who is an Outstanding Course Instructor for Rigging Lab Academy. Rig-For-Rescue  Richard Delaney  April 1, 2018  Free Articles, Free content  1 Comment Suspension Trauma There has been some new research looking at the onset of suspension trauma.  This was presented at the International Commission for

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Brand Ambassador Resources

Brand Ambassador Resources Connect with Rigging Lab Academy on Social Media Facebook Instagram Youtube Vimeo Pre-Written Posts We’ve put together a selection of posts for you to use as you promote Rigging Lab Academy. Just be sure to include your referral link so that you get credit for any sales you generate! For best results,

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Culture vs New Opportunity… Locks and Keys Must Always Match

Alright!  Here we are again to talk about something “sort of out there?…  You love this right?  Culture vs New Opportunity.  We’ve been discussing “creating a mass movement”.  Everything we talk about here is solid for team building, systems, operations and politics.  So lets break this down a bit. First what is a New Opportunity

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Just Released… Tower Rescue Technician… From Elevate Safety

The terms guyed, self-supporting, and monopoles refer to varying types of cell towers. Non-standard tower structures are ones such as transmission towers, water tower, cranes, smokestacks, and possibly bridges. In this article, we’ll discuss first-in operations for a cell tower incident, but the majority of what is discussed can also be relevant for these non-standard

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