Personal Skills Rescue – RTR

Many past students consider the Personal Skills Rescue Workshop our most enjoyable and interactive. Participants experience no shortage of on-rope fun at this seminar! The PSRW and the Team Skills Rescue Workshop together provide the 90% solution for most rope rescues in both industry and wilderness settings. We designed this course for serious rope rescue practitioners. It helps them improve their personal rigging skills. This seminar is sometimes mistakenly seen as a beginner program, given the personal nature of many evolutions. In reality, it targets those who crave more on-rope experience or time over the edge.

The PSRW begins with valuable yet simple lessons on physics and safety in the vertical realm. Following this, we move into practical, fun-filled days where multiple rope stations keep practitioners busy. Finally, the seminar’s last day involves discovering, medically treating, packaging, and extricating a patient. We hid a patient in a secret wilderness location.

Students in the PSRW practice their skills and learn to work together as a team in the successful retrieval of this patient in a non-threatening environment. The PSRW goes well into often overlooked personal skills that are taken for granted on most rescue teams. Students also learn the classic differences (in risk) associated with belays, self-belays, conditional belays, and conditional self-belays.

Warning: There is a very, very strong emphasis on knotcraft in this seminar! Students are tested throughout the program for proficiency and the ability to tie under pressure. All in fun, of course!

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