Brilliant as always, you folks make some of the clearest and best short outdoor info/instructions videos, you should deffo try to keep making some every now and then after lockdown has ended 👍 I have 1 question - shouldn't the sharpness test come before the rope see-saw check so you're not risking rope damage? It's probably a personal/situational thing I guess but thought I'd ask!
Doug Hobbs Thanks for the comments we will certainly hope to. It was interesting making this next series as we realised we do a lot of processing almost instantly. Your quite right you wouldn’t want to saw it over a sharp edge, but if it was that sharp I would have spotted it and discounted the boulder during the stability test, wouldn’t have got to the seesaw. So I have almost done a pre sharpness inspection when we do that first visual. It would have to be a pretty razor sharp edge to cause serious damage with the saw test as your trying to see if the rope rides up so don’t actually have that much pressure on it. The sharpness inspection is really thinking about what might happen to the rope if two peoples weight came onto the rope, could be nasty. It’s a really good point though and something we must all be very mindful of. 🤗👍
Chris Moore Hi there. Everything we have been videoing takes so much longer on screen than it would in reality as we are explaining as we go. With practise and experience it literally takes a few seconds to make these decisions. What we are hoping to do with the videos is help people when they are out practising these skills. The frame work gives structure to the process they need to go through and then with lots of purposeful practise they can hopefully make safe and appropriate choices swiftly. On our ML training/assessment courses we often stop for a minute or two in some random rocky terrain and discuss if we think we could use anything around us as an anchor. That continual thought and physical process really helps people to develop good judgement. But we strongly believe that all judgement needs to have big solid knowledge foundations underpinning it. That’s what we are trying to do here. Hope that comes across? Apologies if it’s to laborious, when you actually start to break down these sort of skill sets it’s amazing the amount of processing you need to do it well. Would always, always prefer that people are a bit slower and make the right decision rather than rushing into one that they might not live through to regret. This is the tone we try and set with all our delivery and courses. Does that make sense?
LeadingEdge Mountain No need for apologies and there is nothing laborious about watching your instructional videos, I luv em! Just trying to add value with questions of reality beyond the training. Keep at it 🗻🙏🏻
Brilliant as always, you folks make some of the clearest and best short outdoor info/instructions videos, you should deffo try to keep making some every now and then after lockdown has ended 👍
I have 1 question - shouldn't the sharpness test come before the rope see-saw check so you're not risking rope damage? It's probably a personal/situational thing I guess but thought I'd ask!
Doug Hobbs Thanks for the comments we will certainly hope to. It was interesting making this next series as we realised we do a lot of processing almost instantly. Your quite right you wouldn’t want to saw it over a sharp edge, but if it was that sharp I would have spotted it and discounted the boulder during the stability test, wouldn’t have got to the seesaw. So I have almost done a pre sharpness inspection when we do that first visual. It would have to be a pretty razor sharp edge to cause serious damage with the saw test as your trying to see if the rope rides up so don’t actually have that much pressure on it. The sharpness inspection is really thinking about what might happen to the rope if two peoples weight came onto the rope, could be nasty.
It’s a really good point though and something we must all be very mindful of. 🤗👍
Love the methodical approach but how fast can we do it safely? Don’t really want those we are helping to lose faith if these decisions take too long.
Chris Moore Hi there. Everything we have been videoing takes so much longer on screen than it would in reality as we are explaining as we go. With practise and experience it literally takes a few seconds to make these decisions. What we are hoping to do with the videos is help people when they are out practising these skills. The frame work gives structure to the process they need to go through and then with lots of purposeful practise they can hopefully make safe and appropriate choices swiftly. On our ML training/assessment courses we often stop for a minute or two in some random rocky terrain and discuss if we think we could use anything around us as an anchor. That continual thought and physical process really helps people to develop good judgement. But we strongly believe that all judgement needs to have big solid knowledge foundations underpinning it. That’s what we are trying to do here. Hope that comes across? Apologies if it’s to laborious, when you actually start to break down these sort of skill sets it’s amazing the amount of processing you need to do it well.
Would always, always prefer that people are a bit slower and make the right decision rather than rushing into one that they might not live through to regret.
This is the tone we try and set with all our delivery and courses. Does that make sense?
LeadingEdge Mountain No need for apologies and there is nothing laborious about watching your instructional videos, I luv em! Just trying to add value with questions of reality beyond the training. Keep at it 🗻🙏🏻