This is episode 2 of 2 of the "rookie" Ronin GRIMP Team competing in Japan in Feb 2023. This episode covers all of the scenarios and the highs and lows that go with competing, especially for the first time.

Ronin at GRIMP Japan Back in the pre-COVID days of 2019, Ronin Rescue competed at GRIMP Japan. It was the team’s last competition prior to the world shutting down. Post COVID, the “competition” team did one more run together in Seville (Rescue Great Day 2022) and then a decision was made. We were placing well. Regular top 10 and even a handful of top 5 finishes. But only a select group of Ronin staff was gaining this experience. So we changed focus and entered a new “rookie” team for GRIMP Japan in 2023. Only the Team Leader had competed on a Ronin team prior. For experience we brought up one of the Ronin USA staff who had competed with his Fire Department (not with a Ronin Team) at GRIMP NA in 2022. The other 3 team members had never competed prior. They were younger staff, not full time Fire but full time with the company. For an example, the previous teams average age was 48. This teams is 30. There is a generation gap between the Team Leader and the Team Members. The patient - was our office manager. She learned to climb rope 6 weeks prior to the event. These were all challenges we had not experienced prior. We knew this would be interesting, challenging, entertaining, so we decided to document it. Both the training and the competition. The team was humbled but not deterred from competing again and gained knowledge and experience that they were unable to gain anywhere else. Well done! We are proud of their efforts. Thanks to our sponsors. ​⁠@TEUFELBERGERGroup ​⁠@arcteryx ​⁠@CMCPro ​⁠@CampSafety Training Division STREP

Some systems such as certain scenarios with SRT or in a two rope system if you have a safety line failure (slack safety line touches something hot in industry??) could require rescue from the tension line. Really a worse case scenario. #grimp

A Happy Holidays greeting from the rescue community worldwide.

There is redundancy and fail safe in rope rescue systems. In this video we look at how this affects our rigging.

In this Ronin quick clip, Kevin discusses Spanned Anchors. He talks about usage, angles and the requirement to ensure the system is loaded prior to measuring the angles to ascertain loads on the anchors.