Smooth & Simple Rigging: Anchoring

The content inside this course was great! However, for me, the volume of the instructor was too low as the music over powered him and I couldn't make out everything he said. This course could only improve if I could've heard the instructor better.

To begin this review, the instructor is really good. His knowledge of setting up anchors and the how and why's are top-notch. I would like to see him more in your academy. The biggest drawback, or distraction, is safety and clothing choices. I've been through most of the courses in Rigging Lab Academy and there's a consistent theme of safety in every course. Courses both indoors and outdoors, groundwork, low angle and high angle there is always safety written throughout (I.E. helmets, harnesses, gloves, close-toed shoes, pants, locking carabiners in life support systems, etc.) I was taken back in this course when the instructor is filmed in an obvious high angle shot wearing shorts, flip-flops, and no helmet while working in the hot zone. Most agencies would freak if an instructor showed up to teach on the hill looking like that. The visual message, even though it may be unintentional, is that it is ok to lower the safety if you are teaching either online or onsite. The other safety concern was using non-locking carabiners within the anchor systems. When he was showing why you would not use a focused anchor when there is a possibility of the load moving left or right. One of the legs of the anchor was loose and next to the non-locking carabiners gate. Once again, though unintentional as it may be, there may be students that may say it is ok to us non-locking carabiners within the anchor system. I truly do love what has been put together in the Rigging Lab Academy and am getting my team ready to go through the whole course, but this will be one that I will skip, even though it has great information and one of the key courses to anchors, due to how the instructor dressed. My SAR Personal will see it and it will be a big discussion point, and why it was filmed as it is. It would be a great undertaking to have to refilm this whole section, but I do think that it needs to be done to keep the safety consistent throughout Rigging Lab Academy. Once again, thank you for all you do. Keep the training coming Patrick Bentley Cache County Sheriff Search and Rescue Logan, Utah