The ropes are durable and just like the ones at the gym. ru-vid.comUgkxTFxba6lNeHrZaHoY_LXe6ZzmMfaipnwu Caution: I bought the 50 feet ropes and they are long and heavy so make sure you have the space (I do have the space). If I was to do it again I would probably get a shorter version as 50 feet (25 feet each side) is a little long.
Your videos are awesome! One thing that could also be helpful would be if you show how to flake these coils without making a tangle mess. I always mess it up the first time.
For the rope pack set up, you can coil from the centre point. You just need the two ends to make the pack, and if you coil from the centre it doesn't matter if you forget to leave enough slack.
Actually, it's like one way to do the initial coil and three ways to tie it off, which is helpful. But I do the initial coil totally different because it's easier for me. I always have trouble with the final tie-off trying to balance the the coiled rope and tying. Haven't done it that much however. Perfect practice make perfect.
Heads up on the backpack coil, instead of wrapping it around your neck start by going under your armpits. You'll avoid having the rope choke you when scrambling or going on approaches.
Yeah in the av industry we coil a lot of cable a huge safety rule was NEVER put it around your neck in anyway ive heard stories of people almost hanging themselves cause the cable got caught somewhere and wrapped reall tight around the neck
Interesting. I think I've used each of these techniques over the years. Currently using something similar to the carry-on-the-backpack method: Butterfly coil from one end of the rope to the other, then a mountaineer coil finish around the middle of the coils, but pre-shorten that final loop used to secure the tail so that after pulling tight, all coils are even and you don't have that one long loop hanging down. Very easy to untie and stack when the ends are separate. Question: Why would you store your ropes with a different method that looks like it has to be untied, stacked and re-coiled to throw onto your backpack?
The problem starting the butterfly coil from the two ends is that you will push any kinks towards the middle of the rope where you won't be able to dissipate them.
For the backpack coil its quicker to loop the rope rather than thread it through. Will also help to sit it up higher to prevent the ends snagging on stuff when scrambling.
It missed my favourite form of coil, the mountaineer's coil, I like it because I can carry it comfortably and can fit well in a pack, also it's ready for roping up just by uncoiling a couple of coils.
Trying to learn this but I get messed up on the first move and for some reason every video just zoooooms past this. For a beginner I would love to see someone break it done slowly
This is amazing. I didn't know women like you existed in this world. Articulate,, intelligent, adventurous, pragmatic. Wonderful. I was looking for a way to coil excess rope when you only have access to one end & the other end is fixed. E.g. one end is tying something up and you've got this long tail end you need to shorten & hang. It's probably easy, but I'm tired and have lots of excess rope to manage.
@@IceGeck0 I chain my webbing and smaller cordage now. Unless you have a different way of doing it than anything out there, IMHO, the butterfly coil will be faster, pack easier and lay out quicker for long pieces of rope.
@@websterme3 you did a great job with this video. It's got to be hard to get in front of the camera like this and I'm sure I couldn't have done it with half as much grace.
She’s got the rope bag lying next to it…wouldn’t it make more sense to use that for moving your rope around? If you tie in the both ends to the bag, there should also be no knots.
My rope is strong af. My rope is stiff af. I don’t think my rope is for climbing. My rope is so strong it can hold me as a slack line. It is strong af, but stiff.
I've been watching RU-vid videos on how to figure-8 coil braided (sheathed) rope for sailing. Most spend over half their time carefully showing how to do it wrong. Some just say this is correct. The one's are aren't flat our wrong, then show how to do it correctly, but I swear there's maybe three seconds in 5 minutes that are the critical part (one of them has the hand out of the frame doing the critical part.) In this video the critical part happens between 32 and 35 seconds. SLOW down. Deliberate practice advises doing the skill as slow as possible until it is done correctly. REI makes a lot of videos. Wouldn't it be really great if first you figured out how people actually learn and then use those methods? Did you then get someone who doesn't already know how to do this to watch and then try it? Sorry to be such a crank, but I've watched about 9 videos so far and none of them are very clear about the critical parts. (Some just show the wrong method as right.) Just because it looks like a how to video doesn't mean that it is.
You are spot on! The critical detail of alternating the hand grasp of the rope whilst coiling over the shoulders was quickly breezed over without explanation or emphasis.
Please record your own video and share! This one is pretty straight forward but please feel free to elaborate in yours so we can all see what differences you would like that were so poorly described by your words ("wrong method" "correctly" "critical part"). You didn't even clarify what you think is "wrong" in your comment. Please help us all by sharing your own video! Also, this is not a figure-8 coil (doesn't say anywhere that it is) so if that's what you are looking for, this ain't it.
