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Arran Turner
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What are peoples thoughts of descending on a figure of eight?

I was descending on prussik and blakes hitch and they are not partically quick and when It does get quick they get really hot and i dont want to ruin my rope/ pre tied knots. I was only climbing a small tree in my local woods and would like to have some fun descending, what are people opinions

 

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Arran

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Get one of the Petzl "square" figure 8. I've rapped on them over ledges, and the nice thing is you don't twist on the way down. Just need to make sure you clip into the 8 properly and back it up for safety before removing the friction hitch. Good back up is an autolock hitch on the brake side of the rope, attached to krab on leg loop. If you let go of the brake line for some reason, this'll save you.

 

What I don't like seeing is was my mate does..... he rapps down on nothing but his ISC rope grab, and I always think something's going to go wrong.

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