Well this year was Ronin’s fifth year at GRIMP Day.  Really, it is hard to believe. We have met so many great people in and out of the rescue community that we now call friends worldwide.  Preparing and competing in GRIMP keeps our staff current on updated rescue procedures and well trained in the execution of rescues.  It also provides them with new ideas about training scenarios for students.  I still get excited as I did year one to compete at GRIMP.  Bottom line up front

Each year, I get the evaluation sheets from the teams who took part in the Grimpday. After reading it , I have noticed that there is often a correlation between the time taken by the team to execute a rescue operation and the points awarded to the work of the team leader. Out of a total of 100 points , 25 are potentially allocated to the team leader, 10 are allocated to the controllers “appreciation” and 30 to the timing. The remainder are for the rigging and rescue. GRIMP Sc

For the past three years 6 firefighters from Metro Vancouver Canada fire departments and a BC Ambulance Paramedic have competed in the GRIMP Day (www.grimpday.com) competition in Namur, Belgium. The team is sponsored by Arc Teryx (www.arcteryx.com), PMI (www.pmirope.com) and Ronin Rescue (www.roninrescue.com). This does influence some of the gear used, however all gear was picked by the team prior to deployment and the providers were sourced out, not the other way around. Eac

In the mid 2000’s, a friend of mine told me to check out GRIMP Day on YouTube. I watched the few videos about this event that were posted at the time – and was instantly hooked. A day dedicated to competing with some of the best rescue teams from around the world. And in Europe to boot! Who would not want to attend this! From that point forward one of my tertiary goals was to field a team. In 2013, we managed to make our dream of putting together a team at GRIMP a reality. Fi