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Today, I've got a little tip for you about how using how
to use your lanyard most efficiently when you're going up big spars.
Anyone who's tried that before knows it's not nearly as easy as it looks
and much more tricky than just going up something
nice and small that you can flip in the intuitive way.
So I'll give you guys a little demonstration,
and hopefully you'll find this useful. OK.
So mostly I'll just show from the ground here,
but I'll give you the general idea when you're spiking up a big spa.
If you try to raise your lanyard
the normal way just by just by kind of grabbing both sides and bringing it up.
It's really difficult.
I got a little bit of lift on that side.
Not much over here.
Maybe I could take a little step.
I could try to do it again, but I can't just pull it up.
And this is a pretty smooth bark tree. Right?
It's a ponderosa pine.
There's not a lot of snags.
If I was in a red cedar or something, it'd be much more difficult even than that.
There's no way it would work.
So this is what we do instead, and I'm going to demonstrate it first
with the steel core because it's actually a little bit easier
with a steel correlated and then also demonstrated with the rope
where it's absolutely essential to do it this way.
So I like to create a little bit of space.
Now, yes, this is a slip hazard.
So hopefully you've got your choke tie in point below you,
but I'm not going up this, so we'll leave that alone for now.
I took a little bit of space and then I bring all the slack
on my lanyard over to one side can be about this much.
The next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to take my hand.
I'm going to throw the slack out and up.
So my arm is going to make this motion and I'm flicking my wrist
to send a wave of lanyard around and up the tree.
So I'll pull up on this side and then we'll go
as I'm falling back in my harness and it's catching me.
And then you'll see I move my feet.
Yeah, but that move, that whole thing about a foot and a half up the tree,
a little more on the backside.
I'll repeat the motion on the other side.
And now
I've just gained two feet, almost three feet as I go to spike up.
I can move up 3-4 almost five steps until it's low again.
And there I'm going to repeat the process.
Go up, suck all the slack up to one side, and I'm going to whip it
all the way around and I'll do it back to whips.
I've just gained another oh, four or five feet on the backside.
123 big steps
and we'll do it again.
I start with my left side.
I feel like
I'm getting caught on something over there.
So one of the key aspects of this technique,
the more comfortable you are with space between you and the tree,
the more slack you can get into your system.
And then the more you'll be able to whip around things and the higher it'll go.
So while it's a little bit more dangerous to have more space,
it gives you a lot more
slack to work with when flipping around
obstacles.
I can feel,
I can feel there's a little hook on the backside.
If I get a little more slack in here,
I can whip around it.
So it's nice here with this steel core
where I can kind of manipulate a little more aggressively.
But I'll demonstrate it
with the rope as well.
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I'm going to demonstrate this again with a rope lanyard.
And when you're practicing this
on the ground, all you need to do is give yourself a little bit of a space
and practice that whipping flicking motion both hands
and then you can do it back down to.
You know, if you want to really get
some practice, it's a good way to set ropes and short trees.
You know, you just work it right up the tree with that motion.
I'm going to come down.
I'm going to do the opposite.
So we'll go ahead and climb it here,
and I say what it's like with a rope lanyard,
with a rope lanyard, it's even more critical to have extra space.
So it's a little bit tougher if you're not real comfortable
with your gaffes and how stable they are in the tree.
Again, I've got a little whip.
So it's a three part motion.
Hips up,
hips up, get your slack off to one side
and then I'm going to whip the slack
and I'm going to do it all at once.
hips up.
Whip the slack.
hips up with the slack.
Now, if you'll notice I'm getting more and more slack
because the trees getting smaller, but I'm keeping the extra tension with my arms
so that I don't fall back with it.
And then when I'm ready to work,
I'll have to kind of take that slack up.
Now I'm ready to work.
Come back down.
That's going to be a
that's going to fight me in.
Here we go.
Though
you should never really be doing this because
hopefully you've got your second tie in
and just belay out.
That's what
I'm doing.
So hopefully you found that useful.
That's a little bit of a tricky technique that takes some time to master,
but if you practice it, gosh, it's makes climbing spars so much easier.
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