Thanks for your feedback - I haven't watched this for a few years, watching it with fresh eyes I can see what you mean. Although I can't see a way to get full picture and no hands without 3 cams to capture. A sketch of the knot, however, progressing along with the vid, would be able to show the little details I've tried to communicate with words - which side of the standing end, etc. I'll see if I can put together something worthy of a re-upload - thanks again

@@chrisbennetts-cash599 If your going to use terms like standing end, bite, loop, working end etc you’ll only be explaining to people who already know how to do the knot. You only need one camera. Several close ups with comments edited over the final. OBS studio is a good tool if you want to interact with your production. There are some OBS videos on KZbin so you can get an idea. Good luck.

@jag4762 love the thoughtful and constructive feedback - thanks again. I'm not a massive fan of re-shooting old stuff, unless it's something that'll cause some outrage and get people thinking - do you have any suggestions/requests for new topics?? 😀 This stuff started life as an attempt to continue providing training material to vertical rescue operators in our state in the early stages of covid lockdowns - although as they progressed began including newbie topics like this, without adjusting the language to match. Good call and good to be mindful of 🙏

@@chrisbennetts-cash599 Quick videos, task videos. No introduction to your life history, no mention of anything else than the task. No relating to other similar items. This isn’t aimed at you this is aimed at all the other long winded explanations of what the weather is like on the day, where they bought the rope, what type of rope it is, how much it cost, where they have been climbing etc. If you want to learn how to tie a knot or anything else you want it to be in easy to follow steps with simple instructions that you can remember and repeat. I’ve seen lots of rope access and top climbing videos and the thing that is really annoying is having to listen to waffle. If it can be explained and demonstrated in 30 seconds that would be a winner as your able to replay that video over and over in order to understand it better. Doing this your video gets seen multiple times by the same person and liked and if that is the case KZbin will suggest your video to other interested peoples. But the principal is to have a short video not a fast one. To the point. The demonstration should begin within 10 seconds. By all means introduce yourself and the demo but keep it short.

@jag4762 hey man, you seem to have gone to quite a significant amount of trouble to give me the feedback that you have given. I want to acknowledge and thank you for that. In their birth these videos were intended mostly for existing vertical rescue technicians and partially for "just" general land rescue techs, and your feedback provides an excellent context for their application in the recreational arena. I can't promise change in the near future - these videos were the first year of covid, the next two were me breaking down - but I'm VERY inspired by the sentiment of your comments. Thank you!

Both excellent points, thanks Matt. Using two independent attachments was deliberate, to demonstrate how poorly load is shared at angles approaching zero degrees - IMO 30 is ideal for load sharing; more rigorous tests show a 70/30 split is more typical below that.

Sorry you couldn't live with the poor audio - I'm learning as I go but have now upgraded to a professional-quality microphone, which you can hear in yesterday's wrap 3 pull 2 video. I've had several similar comments about not being able to see the rigging, and have just filmed my first two-camera shot so I can switch seamlessly to and from a close-up view. Who knew video training would be so much more complicated than face to face!?

@@chrisbennetts-cash599 We are all learning, keep going.