If you use another carabiner for your makeshift knee assender, you can clip it into the main carabiner. Then when you arrive at the height you can unclip it without unclipping life support.

Enjoyed the video. Neat set up. I don't care for knee ascenders and prefer a method similar to yours. Thanks for posting.

Great demo on your walking system. You are a great teacher and make everything look easy and easily understood. Thanks and blessings to you.

Very innovative! Thanks for sharing.

Sweet video. I enjoyed this from Burlington, Vermont. Keep em coming!

Nice information very useful ideas and technique

Great approach! I'm going to try.

I just picked up the Saka foldable yesterday, along with a rope wrench and a tree motion pro, and some accessories. Can't wait to get this harness together and give it a go 😊

Great video! I had to shorten my bridge for the ZigZag. Thank you. Have a blessed week.

Awesome demo! Thats my exact SRT setup, same rope too 😅 I ended up buying a knee ascender just to try it out.

I knew this long long ago like around 2000s . I learned almost this exact set up from an coolest Japanese guy. I called him " Krazy climber "😂 he was using sling as chest harness . Even tho, i knew this set ups, i bought myself a knee ascender just to help this industry tho . 😂 Great Video !🎉

Really smart option, thank you.

Thanks for the lesson! Stay safe!

I love this kinda stuff. Good find🤙

Great video. You make it look so easy.

While I do plan on switching to a rope-walking setup, an instructor once told me that any kind of lanyard/rope around your neck is considered a strangling risk and as such a big no-no. Maybe I'll find an option to get that done by attaching something on my suspenders. Thanks for the inspiration!

Great!!!...looks works fine , like if use it the knee ascender , I will try it like that , thank you for shearing the idea.

Nice video Zach, stay safe !

Yeah that’s a good alternative for sure, I love that blue moon rope your using

Nice one. Got to try this!

Finally convinced myself to try an akimbo and SRT after watching your stuff. Only done tiny stuff with moving rope and mewp jobs since but it'll get its day. I grabbed the adjustable petzl foot tape thinking i could use it for this instead having a knee ascender that will probably disappear from my harness mid climb never to be seen again (like my first foot ascender RIP)

I guess if you girth hitch the foot “lanyard” around the carabiner you could remove it without undoing the carabiner ? Just a thought. Like your take on rope walking, you make it look easy. 🎉

Thank you, teacher! Great!!!

perfect, thanks for the video!

carabiner to rig on your swivel. i like it. been climbing 35 years used it all prefer DRT and foot lock. less crap to deal with but am going to try that next SRT climb good stuff. be safe.

Great idea, thanks

Great idea

Excellent explanation and demonstration. Thank you! Will follow your advice.

I have watched many of your other videos to figure out how you were doing this. Thanks now for this specific video. I'm a relatively new climber and for some reason i don't want to deal with a knee ascender. I mounted a Kiwi foot ascender to my Klein spur and now I need to try this method with my Rope Runner Pro. I need spurs and rope ascent to keep working/practicing on my giant pecan tree. Lots of trips up and down. '

Love the video, thanks for sharing!

What do you use to get your climbing rope up onto a limb?

i've been climbing for a long time and just recently used the zig zag with the chicane and everything worked so smooth - it was the cat's pajamas

great idea, will try it!

Good idea I have to try that

Looks like a cool way to still get the ropewalker effect without all the additional gear! To cut further down on the carabiners could you girth hitch the footloop to your main Zigzag attachment carabiner? Does this work with a chest harness at the tending piece instead or do you really need that bungee action to get it to work?

Good! Maybe i'll try that with taz lov 3, it slide up very easely...who knows...// great video!! 💪

thank you

Really good bro Samar way to do it

Do you have a link to the video where you show your setup with the Akimbo? I tend to spur climb 80% of the time but the 20% when I SRT I can never find a good way to tend to the Akimbo. Would be very curious as to how you have yours set up! Great video, very insightful.

Awesome job brother

Thank you.

I don’t undo my bridge carabiner once I’m clipped in. Do you use a separate carabiner on the foot ascender ?

is there a way you could do this with all ropes/no mechanical? Like tended prusiks? Brilliant idea, thanks for sharing.

this is great

Thank you sir. I run a zigzag and ive been doing alot more srt work

How do you think this would work with hitch based devices? Too much drag? I haven't bought into a SRS device yet, leaning towards a rope wrench because it's less expensive to start and I already have a triple attachment pulley. I was thinking that the foot lanyard could be attached to the bottom becket and my hitch be attached to the middle becket. That way there's not the issue with unclipping the foot lanyard.

Just tried this setup and it’s working pretty good, but it seems like you’re only ascending with your foot ascender because the foot loop is actually pushing the zigzag down. With a knee ascender instead the system would move up when you took a step with your left foot, is that correct? I’m slowly moving from DRT to SRT so I’m just trying to get some more knowledge. Thanks for the video

this is exactly what i do, i just use a sling and girth hitch it to my bridge ring when i want to use it works great and saves you wasting money on a gadget you really dont need

That's great idea..how come you don't tie a biner on the foot loop thing so you don't have to untie??just asking seems it might be better but maybe it interfere s with the stability?

gonna try this with my RRP. cheers buddy

Now that is a good tip! Thanks!

Interesting technique

Really dig it

ive looked everywhere for another video of someone climbing like this but i cant find them anywhere. every one i find they either use a knee ascender or just use a foot ascender and have their other leg sticking out in weird position . i would think there is a happy medium between having the foot lanyard just for support to stay in a standing position rather than not using one and having to dangle your foot with just a foot ascender or to keep you from having to constantly sit back into the harness. even if you dont have the climbing system tending up with a bungee i feel like the foot loop should be a healthy and cheaper alternative to the knee ascender. anyways i love how you explained everything only wish you would of filmed a few other angles so i could tell whats going on but i finally understand what is going on after watching several times. thanks for the tip. going to try it out with a notch fusion rope wrench. ill let you know what i think after i try out a few different options.

Cool setup. I often (out of laziness) climb with just the foot ascender, so kinda one-foot-it. In your rig are you actually moving yourself up the rope with that left foot loop, or is all actual mass-lift happening with that right leg? I can't quite tell. Good stuff man

Thats awesome buuttt...i like having the knee ascender as a secondary device to stop my fall early if the spring decidec to not work in my ascender as I've had happen to me with rope runner pro...

I am 6 months late to this video. Would the foot lanyard work with a rope wrench? No zigzag, just the rope wrench. Thanks for the video.

What type of rope and size are you using?..can you use a rope wrench instead of a Chican which is pretty expensive.. thanks

Dang, very good!

What if you put a quickie on the end that would attach to the Zigzag?

Good stuff man

Got my sub on this one pal very smart I like it 😊

this whole "Ghetto Knee Ascender" idea is a pretty neat one. thank you and be safe. o/

Ya don't just strap spikes around the oll cork boots? Or is this fer climbing other stuff as well?

Really nice how you set that whole ascender up

Correct me if I am wrong, when you step on with your left foot, it seems to me that your body does not ascend as you see when you step on your right foot. ( @ 3:33 minute mark )

Hey iv Ben rope walking this way forever lol I thought I was the only one . I remember when I was just starting off on srt an didn’t want buy anything so came up with this idea I’m glad I’m not the only one lol

do you think i can used without the chicane ?

How do you get the rope up to start with...

I like it. Super gear effeceint.

Would this work just as good with Akimbo or RRP?

Do you have any recommendations for a hand ascender set up that won’t break the bank?

Dumb question, would this work on a MRS system? 🇨🇦🇺🇸

This caveman’s answer to the knee ascender has been learning how to footlock on a rope wrench….no regrets-a handy skill. I’m feeling more optimistic about trying a foot ascender now, thank you!

Cand you use a madrock safeguard instead of zigzag. For saddle hunters, not tree abortionist?

Too back I learned about this after I bought a knee ascender!😢

Can you list all of the equipment you use .. thanks..

What happened to video, audio only for some reason? Id love to see this

I love my knee accender. They have a nice one at endors. I can't rmember the name of mine it's great

the ct knee ascender is amazing, try it

great stuff i have stopped rope walking because it is too fast, as i charge heavy price for tree service people expect me to spend more time on job site😅

good morning from ontario canada

Nice👍🤔😉MICHIGAN 🇺🇸

That’s my setup when I was a beginner and my every senior climbers stop me to doing this for safety, because it’s using my belay device(vt+rope wrench) as knee ascender😂😂

Whut the heck did I find?

Does this work on mrs ?

I've done that with the uni cender and the rope runner not with the zigzag and chicane 👍

Nice 😊 🤠👌👌👌🤙🤙💯👍

Good idea but technically your “knee ascender” is just a knee stop so your advancement is just from the foot ascender. An actual knee ascender will ascend left and right. Still a great idea for advancing though

Is this how yall go upa tree these days?am I that old?

Oh Lord! Unclip? I can't even watch a video at this height, let alone unclip at it... 😅😂

Gp comment

Look like your foot lanyard allows about a third of bend in your leg.

Simplify you knee ascender and just get another clip to cut the task of securing yourself to remove it.

I'll give this a try before forming an opinion. If you're dragging an ascender up the rope anyway why not make the most use of it.

why would you delete my comment? It's just facts. You're using the left "knee ascender" as a stop but it doesn't ascend like a true ascender does. I even said its not a bad idea but you cant call it an ascender

two akimbos????????????????

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Knee ascenders: A costly waste of time. Join us next week when we make a harness out of a old rope tied into a double bowline and a rope out of an old piece of coconut matting.

If you use the jrb ascenders u don’t. Need all that metal but good video