I thought that you were going to teach me how to be less lame with my initial throw

For me it depends on the humidity, moon phase , and many other factors to set a throw line. And even with an air cannon I still find my throwball several houses away. Anyhow thanks for the video lord knowsI need it.

I never subscribe, but your videos have finally put me over the edge. You create the BEST instructional videos out there for our profession. They are to the point, well edited, and always allign with best practices. Thank you for making such great contributions to the community. I've been doing this over 20 years and can always learn something from you.

Great tip and idea!! Thanks for the constant lessons!!

Thanks man, I needed to see that!!! I am one to always forget about this technique and pull out and rethrow. Great job portraying how it works!👍

So well done ! By choosing a really gnarled/dense tree, you were able to demonstrate the real advantage of this method.

Hi Dan. I'm a recreational climber. I have sometimes used a similar technique but with just one throw line and one weight. If I get my line over loads of branches, I remove the weight and reattach it to the middle of the throw line. Then I use a technique similar to yours, pulling the weight from both sides to guide it between branches on the way down. Best regards Stuart

Fantastic tutorial Dan many thanks!

Thank you for this Dan. Self taught here...and all this time...I never knew. I am deadly with a big shot because of it, but this is going to make life a lot easier. Thank you!

Awesome video! Such a simple thing but so useful

Very good vid showing the technique I’m sure this will help a lot of people 👍🏻

great video dan .

Excellent technique, Daniel. I'm not very accurate, but I can overthrow the area and work into a good tie-in.

Nice Brother 😁 thanks, as always, KEEP UR WIT'S ABOUT YOU!

I dig it thank you

You're a genius this is a great help. Cover the rings with electric tape so they don't get stuck on nubins

Enjoyed the video. This technique does work for obtaining ideal target route for your climb line. However, You have to get your initial throw to come down to the ground before you can try this technique. I got a ball stuck way up in an oak yesterday on my third throw. No way could I get the ball to come down and couldn't even pull it out to try again. This happens....no way around it. So, hopefully you get a good throw in and your first throw ball comes to the ground. Then you can play around to get a better route up there if necessary. Thanks for posting this video.

Use drone to get line up? Tie to larger line if need. Shrouded props to help navigate through limbs. Could be precision stuff. A $35 drone and monofilament (fishing line) could thread the needle for larger lines tied to it. Watched a surf fisher drop his line far out in the surf with a drone much further than he could have cast it.

5:55 I reckon you'd make a decent bell ringer Dan 👍

I'm starting to do more SRT this year. So instead of getting up into a lower union & advancing as I climb in an open MRS system I'm looking to get a throwbag up higher from the ground. Did u only have 2 bags between the 2 different lines u had up there & how long are your throwlines?😮

Could this change a base anchor type throw to an isolated branch alpine butterfly throw?

Shortly after I begin trying to set throwline, my companion loses patience and climbs the tree by hand to set the line for me :)

I got lost at 4:15, I thought you just attached the 2nd throwline to the ball-end of the first, but then suddenly you’re pulling “both throwlines at once”….how did the 2nd throwline get up in the tree? Sorry if I’m missing something obvious

Dan, it would be easier for me to visualize the techniques, and their results, if you could make it a synchronized split-screen (left & right), so that we could see the correlation of your hand manipulation to a close-up view of the throw bags reaction. I suppose that there is no substitute for actually practising, but I can see myself getting frustrated quickly by having initial failure to get desired results. Anyway, ...just a thought.

'How to get good with a throwline'. Throwing it in the first try almost perfectly high in a tree. Went to practice myself. After 6+ throws got my throwing bag stuck forever in the fork of a tree. 😅 Next time will try a bow with arrows instead. 😁

One thing I always laugh about is I spent the whole first part of my career (MRS) trying to isolate my system... I now do more SRT and more double bagging and now i actually want to redirect my forces around the tree but when I'm double bagging it naturally isolates the shot 🤦

I got way better with a throwline.............with a Bigshot

TOO CONFUSING 😕. Please make a hand drawing diagram

Always great teach

Go in a park and play around with it...