Rope technique Vol. 1.
Last weekend, part of the team met in Gelbsreuth to conduct the first course in single rope technique together. The goal of the course was to bring the team to a common level of knowledge about the technique on the rope and to prepare us for upcoming projects.
Together with Nils Bräunig and Paul Schlecht from the German School for Caving and Rope Technique FUNIS (https://www.funis.de) we experienced 2 intensive days.
Already on Friday evening a part of the team arrived, besides a delicious dinner there was already a lot of talking shop in the evening. On Saturday morning the last participants arrived, so that we could start punctually around 9 o'clock. With a mixture of theory and practice, Nils and Paul introduced us to the topic, so that we were already able to ascend and descend on the rope without any problems in the evening.
The end of day 1 was a delicious dinner together.
On the 2nd day we were taught special cases of the single rope technique, in addition to transfer points and various knots, the focus was on practical practice. We were able to use the entire training area with a large number of ropes to practice different scenarios in parallel. Here, everyone was always very concentrated on the task at hand in order to learn the technique as well as possible. There was also enough time to have a race in ascending the longest route (approx. 10m).
During lunch, we also discussed a few project-specific topics.
Around 5 p.m. the 2nd day was over and we went home.
Definitely this was not our last course with Nils and Paul....the plans are already running at full speed.
Many thanks from the whole team for the great course!
Here are a few impressions from the course: https://www.funis.de/auf-dem-trockenen/
