ILC rescue skills practice session

If you are a prospective ILC who has some rescue skills knowledge, but wants some more practice or doesn't yet feel confident, come along to the bouldering area before the meeting for a relaxed training session!

People can practice skills of their choosing together and share tips and tricks, while we will be wandering around to answer any questions/offer friendly advice wherever needed. 

The key rescue skills we are anticipating people will be practicing are:

- abseiling and ascending past a knot

- lowering a climber past a knot

- lowering in guide mode

- z-drag (3:1) and assisted hauls

If you haven't tried these skills before, have a look at some videos beforehand; we are not planning to teach from scratch. With rescue skills, there are often many different methods that work in different situations, but these videos can get you started:

Lowering in guide mode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMKlkgkmFyU

Abseiling past a knot:

https://youtu.be/aHipSr4_a0U?si=8GFJjzz6BfmVW5mh

Lowering past a knot

https://youtu.be/FifPoymPxNc?si=NcIJ4ueA6NvDdTm7&t=719

https://youtu.be/I2pGaEW-ykM?si=0NiRci_2DzLZ41HM

Assisted hoist and Z-drag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EZ1Umt4Kqw&t=840s

We are not planning to do any assessing, but depending on numbers and time it might be possible. This session is targeted at people looking to become ILCs, so priority will be given to PILCs, but if not many people sign up, we are happy for people to practice some anchor cleaning skills as well.

Hope to see a few people there!