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Summary: Learn what rock climbing webbing and cordage, equipment and gear you need to get started climbing rocks in these free rock and mountain climbing videos.
Bill Killough-Hill has been teaching rock climbing at Zoar Outdoor since 1995. He is an AMGA certified top rope site manager and keeps fit climbing with students at the Academy at...read more
"Hi, I'm Bill with Zoar Outdoor here on behalf of expertvillage.com. Today we're at Chapel Ledges in Ashfield, Massachusetts, Trustees of the Reservation Property and in this series I'm going to be talk about rock climbing gear. I want to talk about webbing and cordage. So webbing, flat nylon material, this is the most common stuff. One inch wide, tubular webbing, which is actually hallow in the middle if you look at the end of it. Real useful for making anchors, connecting things, all sorts of uses. Another kind of webbing that you'll see out there is spectra. This is Kevlar reinforced type of webbing, very strong, can be smaller and still have the same strength, doesn't tie knots real well so you'll always find it in sewn slings. Cords that you might run into, this is useful as a cordelette, it's just a 8 millimeter accessory cord, has lots of handy uses that you'll see if when we get to the anchoring pieces and it's a full strength piece of cord. Meaning that it's as strong as your climbing rope and other smaller cords are good for prosaic knots, slings between pieces. Other sort of anchoring uses are lead climbing uses that you might find that we'll get into later. So a wide assortment, most what you're going to start out with is this 1 inch tubular for your top rope climbing."
eHow Article: How to Use Webbing & Cordage While Rock Climbing