Vertical Aid Climbing - IRATA Level 2 Training

One of my favorite things to do! Vertical aid climbing! Always good as a topic of conversation. Should we use shockabsorbers or are cowstails good enough?

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0:00 Vertical Aid Climbing introduction
1:00 How to vertical aid climb up
3:00 Long long short
6:10 Vertical aid climb back down
8:10 Sponsored Message
8:40 Common Faults
10:30 Preventing big falls

[altancankaynarr]

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[ramanwilliams]

Thanks for the great videos that you make. You explain techniques in a way that anyone can understand which is important when it comes to any training. Keep up the great work and hello from Australia.

[julienrivollet]

Hi,
Many thanks for this good explanation! Nice video!
I agree with your technical practice!
With my trainees, I also speak about "parents and child" for the cow's tails: parent 1 go ahead, child can't stay alone, so parent 2 reach him, and then child reach parent 1, etc... Trainees love this tip (that I use mostly for horizontal aid climbing!).
I've got just one thing to notify, about the grillon's karabiner connected to your harness: if I'm true, you're not supposed to use a large karabiner, specifically like the William (from Petzl notice for Grillon second generation, not the current one).

[aerialrescuesolutions]

Regarding the bolts being twice as far apart. I would just use two adjustable lanyards and my cow's tails, this way I can adjust to each distance before I unclip, this should keep the ff below 1 at all times. No? Excellent video and instruction, thank you, Jim H.

[extensa_mente]

Hi, why don't you use triact auto lock, or twist lock carabiners in those cowtails? Thank you so much 👍👍

[simonthomson]

Great video, I teach it the same way although I only use one etrier and keep it on the bottom eyebolt. I think that reduces the chance of a tech loading the highest eyebolt and standing in the foot loop which could create a higher fall factor. It's a bit of a nuance but I like the simplicity. Keep up the good work bro!

[imaipatrick]

Yo really the best in this. 5stars given

[tubosolinas]

My standard rule is "make before brake". Even on a ladder

[larsmelsen]

Awesome video again! You plan on making some kinda merchandise we can buy to support the channel?

[brianrodman]

Interesting to watch the rope access version of progression for aid climbing. There has been at least one climber who made a rope less or mostly rope less ascent of either Half Dome or El Cap using a three point of contact system, which watching this video made me think of. I’m curious what a rope access technician would think of the way rock climbers go about their aid climbing system. I imagine that some gains in safety might result from those observations as fall factors would undoubtedly be taken into account.

[nenadmrakovic]

Greetings once again. I have a question about the Grillon positioning device. First, I would like to say that the grillon is my favorite device because there are so many possibilities with it, with two grillons I feel like Spiderman. Since I had the opportunity to work as a rigger on oil platforms, I used the grillon for climbing scaffolding structures(in combination with fall arrest hooks), but also as a device with which I could very easily move or remove the chain block. And now the question. Can the grillon be used as a hanging device? To emphasize, this question has been circulating among my colleagues for a long time. thanks in advance.

[mikekollross]

May I ask why you use screw gate carabiners. It seems less efficent than a twist lock or tri-act. Just curious.

[mrmurray]

Here's a question for everyone. What should the anchor be rated to 12kN 15kN 18kN or 21kN and why?

[Danrod]

Could you make videos of movable anchors on I beams horizontal and vertical?

[florestanmonvoisin]

Hi ! Is it prohibited to only have 2 point on this type of ascension ? Like with MGO "Y" with absorber ?

[bahadurbishnu]

hello dear.sir i have a assessment coming 14, 10, 2023

[beweisenhaus]

Hello all, I'm a sprat 2 tech, and I have a question I'm wondering about concerning vertical aid climbs. I was recently told by my irata 3 supervisor that I should do my vertical aid climb with 2 4ft lifting slings, single choked around a vertical I beam. He claims that these slings will work for my 2 attachment points. I strongly disagree, because of the angle I'm pulling those single choked slings. I've done a lot of lifting and rigging of I beams and I never trust a single choked sling, pulled in a sideways direction, with my life. Even if it works in limited circumstances for rigging, I would never set a climbing anchor like that. I'm just curious if anyone has any input. I outright refused to even try, and after seeing my supervisor try and fail, its confusing to me why he wants to still argue that its totally possible and within the irata guidelines.

[wallrockclimber]

cows tails do not live under the short link, they stay high like arrest lanyards just think about the fall factor if the short link fails.