Friday, January 4, 2008

What goes up... must come down- Abseiling

The Abseil tower is one of the more exciting challenges that the students will face. Fathers in the Commandoes or Guards unit during their NS will no doubt recall their army days :)

In abseiling, it is the position of the braking hand (the right hand, since most people are right-handed; for left-handers, it's the reverse) that controls the rate of descent. The left hand only plays a guiding role and is not used for actual braking as we can see in the following clip where we have Khairul from 1D showing us how the abseil is done:


Even though Abseiling is a technically challenging activity, we make sure we give a thorough run through of the procedures. Here we see our External Instructor CK, dispatching Lee Kwan Meng from 1D

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