So what is a Signature Theme? A Signature Theme presents your five most dominant themes of talent that provide true insight into the core reasons behind your consistent successes. I get the question “what makes you tick?” a lot. I love it. It isn’t “what do you do for a living?” or “how are you?” …
Mitigating “edge trauma”, as many call it… is likely the most arduous job of any rigger or rope rescue team. Edge trauma is all about the transition vertical to horizontal terrain (or visa versa). It is difficult and can be dangerous. So it is here the vision and strategy of anchoring and positioning the working …
Elevated High Directional Mini Series Part 1-The AHD Overview Read More »
When we created Rigging Lab Academy, we had a few things in mind before we stepped foot into the world if online video training for rope rescue and rigging athletes. Five of them are listed here. 1) Our brain craves EASE & ORDER It will always choose the easy route. It hates complexity. It will …
Hey All! I wanted to drop in some thoughts about the equipment used when rigging highlines and other horizontal systems for the purposes of work and rescue. Your anchors are the key… the greater the angle between two anchor points, the greater the stress will be on those anchors. It must be the goal of …
I guess the question at hand is do we really understand our systems and what they are truly capable of? And with all the talk about catastrophic failures… what exactly is a catastrophic failure anyway? Under manufacturer’s specs, it isn’t the rope (good ropes don’t snap). When was the last time you saw a knot explode? The …
Last month, we visited the Petzl America facility in Salt Lake City Utah. It was here we met up with Steve Crandall. Steve is a full time firefighter with Salt Lake City Fire Department. Like many of “his kind”, he has a lot going on with the department and life as a whole. Rather …
Rich Hattier is change agent. His involvement in the rigging industry has spanned many years. Initially, Rich’s journey started at the gates of “the arborist” and later through portals of ISC Wales. I have known Rich now for a few years and was initially captivated by his humor and focused approach to “no non-sense” rigging. Readily …
Twin Tension Single Rope Work Positioning Is The Future For Arborist Read More »
Two Tensioned Rope Rescue Systems For decades, rescue agencies and teams have configured their rope rescue systems around some variation of a fully tensioned main line and an untensioned safety or belay line. Organizations and manufacturers have invested a great deal into research and training to make these rope rescue systems as safe as possible. …
Arizona Vortex Workshop Highlights… Rescue Response Gear, in concert with Rigging Lab Academy, is in the process of building a Arizona Vortex AHD video workshop. This quick clip visually describes an overview of a course we film a few years ago. The covered Easel A Frames with litter scoops using the AZTEK four to …
Arizona Vortex Workshop Highlights… Great Fun Learning! Read More »
So we often toss the word “paradigm” around and many of us don’t actually know what “one” is. A paradigm is “a set of forms all of which contain a particular element, especially the set of all inflected forms based on a single stem or theme.” Boiling this down, it means, “the way we always …
