eyehearttrees
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I was doing just foot&hand ascenders for a while, micropulleys getting dusty / still brand new.... After making a batch of hitches recently, I decided to try something besides standard-prussik configuration (found VT's worked well) and realized the different 'jamming' of a VT, versus a prussik, would make a micropulley more effective so I dusted-off one of the small generic ones I'd had and was blown away at what a difference it made not having to tend my hitch by hand so much - but this got me to get a knee-ascender and now I see why it's different (I'd always figured my "loop from hand-ascender to left-foot" was about the same as a knee ascender anyways, but was manually tending my hitch then so the difference wasn't obvious!), with my other foot's connection being below my hitch there's now very consistent line-tension at the hitch which makes my over-shoulder tending tether (my flipline, from my side D brought over my opposing shoulder) tend the hitch soooo easily!
I made my knee ascender setup, actually 2 versions now lol, anyway I'm seeing that many aren't even using hand-ascenders when using knee+foot.....I'm finding it most-comfortable to tend my knee-ascender off of my hand ascender, since I'm moving my right hand & left leg upwards simultaneously....but don't want to do my "3rd and final" build based on this concept if it's redundant, just can't convince myself the handled ascender isn't worth having on the ascent (honestly it's usually just that last several feet, "getting up&over", that the handle can really shine!)
Thanks for insight on your setups, I can configure mine to either elastic (for my hitch//pulley area) or static to be tended by the hand-ascender, while the latter feels more comfortable it seems popular opinion says it's the less efficient, anyway thanks for input on how you setup yours!
I made my knee ascender setup, actually 2 versions now lol, anyway I'm seeing that many aren't even using hand-ascenders when using knee+foot.....I'm finding it most-comfortable to tend my knee-ascender off of my hand ascender, since I'm moving my right hand & left leg upwards simultaneously....but don't want to do my "3rd and final" build based on this concept if it's redundant, just can't convince myself the handled ascender isn't worth having on the ascent (honestly it's usually just that last several feet, "getting up&over", that the handle can really shine!)
Thanks for insight on your setups, I can configure mine to either elastic (for my hitch//pulley area) or static to be tended by the hand-ascender, while the latter feels more comfortable it seems popular opinion says it's the less efficient, anyway thanks for input on how you setup yours!