RAPPEL MODES 10 WAYS OF RAPPELLING WITH A FIGURE 8

@marcelodelpuerto395 3年前

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

@Fede_uyz 4年前

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

@ksmith6237 5年前

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

@goodredman 1年前

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🎉

@donnyo65 2年前

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.

@brysontibbitts2405 4年前

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.

@AdorjanGabor 5年前

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

@dragan3290 2年前

Oh man. The best tutorial ever! Cheers from Australia just subbed.nice work!🙂👍👍👍

@lennyguerra3298 4年前

This is so great never seen so many ways to rappel, tanks for ur time showing us keepit up..from belize SAM TZ..

@snowtribe4172 4年前

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

@therealjackfisher 2年前

thanks, all I needed to know about figure 8 :) that belay mode is something im going to have fun with next.

@marcst-antoine4238 5年前

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.

@Fede_uyz 4年前

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