I allready made this post on another discussion board and got one good response and I don't like to cut and paste on discussion boards, but I wanted to run this question by some of the very experinced climbers here.
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I was watching one of those home improvements shows the other day, not some thing I normally do. They were improving a house by building a large tree house in the back yard. In preparation, carpenters called in a professional tree guy to cut off some of the branches that were not part of the plan. He had the most interesting way of climbing a rope.
From the very short video clips they showed of him working it looked like he had a chest ascender and nothing else. He would ascend the rope by using one foot to quickly wrap the rope around his other foot. Then he would stand up and repeat this again very quickly. The speed at which he moved around in the tree was amazing.
Did anybody happen to see this show or know what this technique is called?
It certainly doesn't look very safe, but it might be nice to know?