A sample clip from - A Toolbox of Rock Climbing Skills for Leaders and Guides - Clip 2

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Uploaded by on Dec 27, 2008

This is a sample clip from the new training DVD which is aimed at leaders and guides of rock climbing activities. These skills are those that many learners battle with during assessments. This clip shows using a prussic to safeguard a lower.

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  • Actually no. This is NOT a climbing situation but only a situation where by a person is being lowered under control. There will be no impact force and even if there was the force will be minimised by the friction hitch or belay device so there is little force on the person holding the rope. We have found after thousands of training courses that this techniques is far safer than not having the prussic in place.

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  • That technique worries me--.  when the rope runs, the top person will be jerked to the belay device which might mind the prussik and still the climber falls.

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