RAPPEL MODES 10 WAYS OF RAPPELLING WITH A FIGURE 8

10 WAYS OF SETTING UP A FIGURE 8 RAPPEL DEVICE

[marcelodelpuerto]

Never open your carabiner during your belay and the "carabiner brake" modes look sketchy, the rope could open the gate.

[Fede_uyz]

The support + was very intuitive to me. I learnt the support way as a way to be able to rappell down fast without danger of the rope loosening too much and without danger of it turning into a girth hitch and locking you, but as soon a i learnt it i realized i could add extra safety by running the rope through the back of the small circle.


Very intuitive and safe

[brysontibbitts]

The one after your biner brake bar method (5:20) would cross load the biner and if the biner was to break, your rope wouldn't be attached to any part of your rap device and you'd free fall. Highly recommend not crossloading the biner.

[goodredman]

Thank you for sharing these various ways of setting up the figure 8 with your rope. I’ve made a small repelling set up to include uncertain backpacking trips into the woods. Better to have, and not need that not to have and find myself in a situation needing it.
Cheers🎉

[donnyo]

If you use 'canyon plus' mode but then clip the two carbiners into a third caribiner which attaches to the harness, this is good for people just learning to rappel. It puts everything in front of their line of sight (Make sure long hair is tied up!), and they are less likely to feed their hand through it! Good video, some techniques I'm going to try that I didn't know about after 42 years of climbing and teaching.

[AdorjanGabor]

In the cross-carabiner mode you can actually break your carabiner if it is a nowadays lightweighted piece.

[FTFreedom]

I like gear minimalism. I have a f8. There are many descend options out there. Munter hitch has been just fine for under 100 feet. Tree climber. 🌳 ❤

[Fede_uyz]

A munter hitch with a carabiner will also allow you to rappell when you got no rappell device (be it an 8, atc, etc)

[marcst-antoine]

If you twist the bight before passing it around the small hole in canyon mode, you get an ''auto-locking'' mode, and you can pull down on the small hole that now acts as a handle for the auto-braking function. Make sure to keep a firm hand on the rope below the device because it can ''lock'' in the ''open'' position. I always advise having a back-up rope (or at the very least a fireman belay from a partner) to prevent injury, especially when experimenting with new techniques.

[ksmith]

I would not recommend opening your locking life safety carabiner mid rappel, ever. Otherwise, nice list of rappel techniques.

[Hisslave]

A rescue 8 (with ears) is slightly larger but much more useful than a standard 8 and won't half hitch and lock you down. You can hold your position simply and easily with a hard or soft lock and release it instantly.

[Chris_Cross]

This guy really be out here just making modes up

[jeanmartox]

Ces méthodes vrillent énormément les cordes! A user avec précaution! Merci à la chaine!

[matthewhickey]

This should be called more and more dangerous ways to use a figure 8

[dmcgreg]

The canyoning mode (without your modification) is crazy...why anyone would rely on that is beyond me. Your mod should be considered mandatory. Well done video. Thanks

[TheMule]

The reason people answer 'no' to the munter hitch question is that it goes without saying that any system should be detachable from the rope, e.g. when you reach an anchor. You can detach yourself from the 8 but you can't remove it from the rope, unless you have access to one of the ends.

I'm not saying it doesn't have applications, of course, but it's a different category from all the other systems that can be attached and detached w/o accessing one of the ends.

But overall it's an interesting video. People forget that climbing was a thing way before the invention of modern devices.

[snowtribe]

This is great, never seen so many techniques with a figure 8 before, thanks.

[TimWebber]

i suspect that none of the other experts thought of the last one because normally you'd walk up to an abseil rope and attach in to it. Who would think of de-rigging it to thread the device. You could also repeatedly thread the end through the device to create multiple wraps around the big ring of the Fig8.

[BKK]

Now i have 9-10 choices more to do with my figure 8, however i have to test these mothods by myself about friction levels before use in real situation, and thank you very much for this informative video.

[thomaspayne]

Thanks for this video! Nice to have an overview of different figure 8 configurations.