2:12 Myth 1: When you have a screw gate carabiner in the vertical axis you must always have it so the gate opening is at the bottom.
5:30 Myth 2: When you have two carabiners connected to the same thing the gates need to be opposite and opposed.
11:00 Myth 3: How you load webbing into an offset D carabiner.
15:18 Myth 4: No metal on metal.
21:58 Myth 5: Stay with dedicated main and dedicated belay and don't use TTRS because of edge transitions.
39:30 If something doesn't make sense, is 'why' a bad question to ask?
Links:
22:28 Mike Gibbs and Kevin Koprek - Two Tension or not to Tension: https://riggingforrescue.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Two-Tension-or-Not-to-Tension.pdf
22:28 2015 ITRS Mike Gibbs - Mirrored Systems: http://itrsonline.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/ITRS-2015-Gibbs-Paper-Final.pdf
Join the Conversation
Please email us with questions or comments about this topic at podcast@cmcpro.com
Important Warning:
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free