Zul, who was very interested to become an abseil guide, signed up for the first Abseil Guide Training program at Learning Adventures. Its a 5 intensive day program which covers the very basic of abseiling to advance rescue skills!
The crucial part of the program that was specifically designed right at the beginning, was that Zul had to be a participant. Being in a participants shoe would make him realise the do’s and don’t s, and the must and shouldn’t s. Most importantly, the traits of being a guide, patience and calmness.
After that, it was continuous anchor setups horizontally (using artificial anchors) and soon at heights using natural anchors. Every possible anchor setup scenario was thrown to him! It was a little of a challenge at the beginning for Zul, but towards the end of the 3rd day, he became pretty good at anchor setups!
The 4th and 5th day was done at a tower in Serdang. Here we had the training a little different. This time I got a friend to help out as a stuck abseiler for Zul. We went through 3 different types of abseil rescues (munter release, lowering abseiler and vertical rescue). To add pressure to Zul, timing was added to the many rescues that we went through.
We ended the 5th day with a 40m abseil off the tower. Zul had rigged and tested it all by himself.
