Never open your carabiner during your belay and the "carabiner brake" modes look sketchy, the rope could open the gate.

In the cross-carabiner mode you can actually break your carabiner if it is a nowadays lightweighted piece.

The last one looks like it would ruin the rope in a hurry.

If you use 'canyon plus' mode but then clip the two carbiners into a third caribiner which attaches to the harness, this is good for people just learning to rappel. It puts everything in front of their line of sight (Make sure long hair is tied up!), and they are less likely to feed their hand through it! Good video, some techniques I'm going to try that I didn't know about after 42 years of climbing and teaching.

The support + was very intuitive to me. I learnt the support way as a way to be able to rappell down fast without danger of the rope loosening too much and without danger of it turning into a girth hitch and locking you, but as soon a i learnt it i realized i could add extra safety by running the rope through the back of the small circle.


Very intuitive and safe

The one after your biner brake bar method (5:20) would cross load the biner and if the biner was to break, your rope wouldn't be attached to any part of your rap device and you'd free fall.  Highly recommend not crossloading the biner.

A munter hitch with a carabiner will also allow you to rappell when you got no rappell device (be it an 8, atc, etc)

Thank you for sharing these various ways of setting up the figure 8 with your rope. I’ve made a small repelling set up to include uncertain backpacking trips into the woods. Better to have, and not need that not to have and find myself in a situation needing it.
Cheers🎉

I would not recommend opening your locking life safety carabiner mid rappel, ever. Otherwise, nice list of rappel techniques.

I like the French rappel with 2 locking carabiners.

Ces méthodes vrillent énormément les cordes! A user avec précaution! Merci à la chaine!

Super simple to follow.  Thanks dude!

thanks, all I needed to know about figure 8 :) that belay mode is something im going to have fun with next.

Now i have 9-10 choices more to do with my figure 8, however i have to test these mothods by myself  about friction levels before use in real situation, and thank you very much for this informative video.

The reason people answer 'no' to the munter hitch question is that it goes without saying that any system should be detachable from the rope, e.g. when you reach an anchor.   You can detach yourself from the 8 but you can't remove it from the rope, unless you have access to one of the ends.

I'm not saying it doesn't have applications, of course, but it's a different category from all the other systems that can be attached and detached w/o accessing one of the ends.

But overall it's an interesting video. People forget that climbing was a thing way before the invention of modern devices.

Oh man. The best tutorial ever! Cheers from Australia just subbed.nice work!🙂👍👍👍

Thanks.its exactly what i need

If you twist the bight before passing it around the small hole in canyon mode, you get an ''auto-locking'' mode, and you can pull down on the small hole that now acts as a handle for the auto-braking function. Make sure to keep a firm hand on the rope below the device because it can ''lock'' in the ''open'' position. I always advise having a back-up rope (or at the very least a fireman belay from a partner) to prevent injury, especially when experimenting with new techniques.

It’s a great video! Thank you so much.

This is so great never seen so many ways to rappel, tanks for  ur time showing us keepit up..from belize SAM TZ..