When it’s bitter cold, run a pair of nitrile gloves under your normal work gloves no more cold hands but be sure to let them breathe at lunch or between trees. A nylon windbreaker under a good hoody also when it’s real chilly traps the core heat and knocks the wind down, I can’t stand feeling...
I’ve heard good things about the bucket of rice/sand/whatever for training extension muscles/hands/wrists instead of the $30 rubber bands every hocks anymore.
Utility “boot camp” teaches Blake’s hitch and closed system then progress’s to basic open system (prussic and pulley), they like to teach the Blake’s still as a I have absolutely nothing else with me but I can make it to the ground. It’s nice because they do have to climb on the closed system so...
Was also going to recommend the quickie especially the newer CE version pretty much no down sides and easier to see pin orientation if running it up from the ground.
Had em for a while now, the enamel? chips off in a hurry otherwise no real complaints mainly use the red one for light rigging since we always have rotating ground staff just makes life simpler. Have choked off and came down on spars with green once floppable still not my favorite thing to do...
As a dedicated ascent line blue32 is pretty solid it’s just miserable to climb gloveless MRS, I haven’t heard a complaint at all from the guys running squir around me
Splices on all lines, no hand tied terminations, canopy anchor must be a basic ring jam, base anchors are essentially two half hitches with a ring jam as well, try and stupid proof a company and eventually you just make the work harder than it needs to be.
I really wanted to love the RRP, in fact I tried twice, however I’ve been running a bollard vertec for a couple months now and I’m actually going to keep it. The main difference for me is how much more consistent and fluid the bird operates, I always struggled to feather the RRP for fine...
So the friction body is a running update, it was a change to the lower attachment point to “fix” the carabiner lock some were experiencing, as far as the new pulley body “upgrade” yeah I’m disappointed it’s a $170 option instead of a running update, also it’s not much more expensive than the...