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Learn everything about self-rescue and problem solving when trad climbing

    1. Course Content

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    2. The First Bad Decision

    1. Rappelling Intro

    2. Increasing Friction

    3. Rappelling Without a Device

    4. Rappelling Without a Harness

    5. Rappelling With a Damaged Rope

    6. Rappelling When All Your Ropes are Damaged

    7. Extending the Length of a Rappel

    8. Rappelling Past a Knot

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    9. Pendulum Rappels

    10. Leave-No-Trace Tower Rappelling

    11. Stuck ropes - Prevention

    12. Stuck Ropes - Solutions

    13. Descending From Bad Anchors

    14. Descending Loose Rock

    15. Retreating Mid-Pitch With a Tag Line

    16. Practise at the Crag

    1. Anchor Building Intro

    2. Self Equalizing Anchors - The Sliding X

    3. Self Equalizing Anchors - The Quad

    4. Equalizing Anchors with the Rope

    5. Non-Textbook Anchors

    6. Practise at the Crag

    1. Climbing on Loose Rock

    2. Equalizing Lead Protection

    3. Leading Runout Routes

    4. Following a Runout Traverse - Back Roping

    5. Pendulums and Tension Traverses - Leading

    6. Pendulums and Tension Traverses - Following

    7. Basic Aid Climbing

    8. Basic Hauling

    9. Simul Climbing

    10. Practise at the Crag

    1. Self-Rescue Basics

    2. Basic Knots - The Releasable Belay

    3. Basic Knots - Prusiks

    4. Escaping the Belay - First Considerations

    5. Escaping the Belay - Directly from the Anchor

    6. Escaping the Belay - Anchor in Reach

    7. Escaping the Belay - Anchor out of Reach

    8. Escaping The Belay - When Belaying the Leader

    9. Escaping the Belay - Simple Methods

    10. Descending to an Injured Climber

    11. Prusiking - The Basics

    12. Prusiking - Standard Technique

    13. Prusiking - Slingshot Technique

    14. Prusiking - With an Extended Belay Device

    15. Prusiking - Without Prusiks

    16. Counterbalance Rappel - Part 1

    17. Counterbalance Rappel - Part 2

    18. Tandem Rappelling

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    19. Lowering an Injured Climber

    20. Lowering in Guide Mode

    21. Hauling Your Partner - Basics

    22. Hauling Your Partner - Simple Systems

    23. Hauling Your Partner - Advanced Systems

    24. Top Rope Soloing

    25. Lead Rope Soloing

    26. Practise at the Crag

    1. Self-Rescue Knots
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Reviews

5 star rating

Best Self Rescue Course on the Internet

Gui Vendemiatti

Short of taking a self-rescue course with a certified guide, this is the best thing you can do for your safety while climbing. I've been climbing for 5 years (trad climbing for 2) and should have taken this course a long time ago. It's logically o...

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Short of taking a self-rescue course with a certified guide, this is the best thing you can do for your safety while climbing. I've been climbing for 5 years (trad climbing for 2) and should have taken this course a long time ago. It's logically organized in videos that are straight to the point and skip all the fluff and jumble (looking at you HowNot2!). Also the animation are so so so so so helpful. This course gets gets an A+++

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5 star rating

Great course

Andris Priedīte

Easy to follow videos and voice narrations. 3d drawings and animations were super helpful to visualize complex setups. Really liked that the author gave pros and cons for most of the methods featured in videos.

Easy to follow videos and voice narrations. 3d drawings and animations were super helpful to visualize complex setups. Really liked that the author gave pros and cons for most of the methods featured in videos.

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5 star rating

Awesome content and easy to digest

Renato Utsch

Having a self rescue course in a visual format is incredible and so much easier to parse than with books. Particularly with the incredible 3d renderings of the systems, which make understanding even complex stuff really easy. I wholeheartedly reco...

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Having a self rescue course in a visual format is incredible and so much easier to parse than with books. Particularly with the incredible 3d renderings of the systems, which make understanding even complex stuff really easy. I wholeheartedly recommend this course!

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5 star rating

Brilliant! Title says it all.

Baz Cardinal

Excellent scenarios for anyone who has been climbing (trad climbing) for a few years. Also a great introduction to aid climbing/big wall climbing. Gives the viewer a taste of how much more is involved.

Excellent scenarios for anyone who has been climbing (trad climbing) for a few years. Also a great introduction to aid climbing/big wall climbing. Gives the viewer a taste of how much more is involved.

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5 star rating

Excellent course

Blagoj Milenkov

Even though I knew a lot of things as a trad climber, the course is still great because there are little things that are very important. Also the sense of humor is very great. Keep going with other courses.

Even though I knew a lot of things as a trad climber, the course is still great because there are little things that are very important. Also the sense of humor is very great. Keep going with other courses.

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Joey Staples

Packed with excellent and easy to understand information. Cheers!

Packed with excellent and easy to understand information. Cheers!

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So good!

clint cabanero

Excellent techniques explained very well with great visual examples and demonstrations

Excellent techniques explained very well with great visual examples and demonstrations

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5 star rating

second course i bought

duane swanson

I first got the big wall / aid course and was blown away by the quality instruction and thoroughness. when I saw the preview of this one I was super excited to get it. the course doesn't disappoint. worth far more than the price he's charging.

I first got the big wall / aid course and was blown away by the quality instruction and thoroughness. when I saw the preview of this one I was super excited to get it. the course doesn't disappoint. worth far more than the price he's charging.

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5 star rating

amazing

Stav Hoter

5++++stars

5++++stars

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