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climbing a rope

mikllaw

22-Nov-2010
4:57:08 PM

you can even use a shoelace and a belay device, I've done 50 m odd like that.
give me your edress and I'll send you some notes


cruze

22-Nov-2010
5:29:27 PM

Classic Bond - For your eyes only?


Billie W

22-Nov-2010
7:35:57 PM

I bought a 10m stactic tied it to the roof of my shed and kept practicing untill it felt I completly understood how two prussicks work. I have also tried garda hitch however thats not that flash can twist a bit. Now every so often when toproping I will prussik to the top with ease. I hope you dont but maybe one day you may need to know it fast. Good luck

one day hero

22-Nov-2010
7:41:17 PM

On 22/11/2010 nmonteith wrote:
>Prussics are fine if you are only doing it once in a blue moon. Totally
>safe - just a bit slow. It's not nearly as bad as people are making it
>out.

There's a trick involving a sling and a biner wrapped around the rope, which works heaps better than prussics. Check it out in a book somewhere, I won't waste everyones time by using a paragraph to describe something which needs one simple diagram.

hargs

22-Nov-2010
8:02:01 PM

>There's a trick involving a sling and a biner wrapped around the rope,
>which works heaps better than prussics.

You mean a Bachmann knot?

One Day HEro

22-Nov-2010
9:35:16 PM

That'd be the one. I don't mind prussicking with those things, its halfway to jumars.

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