I spent another day with Ady, working on developing his jedi rope skills, and we focused on consolidating the skills we covered the day before, which is an approached that I have often used in these courses as the skills get very complex very quickly, and it was great that Ady was onboard when it came to learning the few things we did very well, rather than moving on and not fully understanding any of them.
So today we looked at Assisted and Unassisted Hoist, using a belay plate and a petzl reverso 3.0 in guide mode. We also added an extra piece of mechanical advantage, and also added in a DMM revolver, which made everything a lot easy.
The other skill we concentrated on was escaping the systam and going into a abseil rescue with the rope we were climbing on. Sounds easy, but it is actually very very hard to do, as there are many small components that make up this one piece. Ady went through it many times and he pretty much got it dialled on the last go.
I can only imagine the knot his mind was in by the end of the two days, however Ady asked if I could write down the sequence last night, and today we took a series of pictures of every stage of that rescue, and a few others. Hopefully Ady is going to email the pictures, as I used his G12, which was much better at indoor snaps than my D80. If he does, I am going to put together a PDF of the rescues, shot by shot. Hopefully it will be of help to a few of you guys out there.
Anyway I am off all next week, so I hope the rain stops, so I can try and get out. ALthough need to send a group text this evening to drum up some partners.