What is Strike Rescue? It’s the best in Technical Rope Rescue Instruction for rescuer practitioners.
Instruction
Strike Rescue (SR) is a rescue instruction entity that concentrates on training and helps equip teams. SR about optimizing resources and creating efficiency. Our training and consultative services help teams to respond and execute rescues without concentrating on dogma. We have continually been to conferences all around the world for the past two decades and we have contributed some of the best, award-winning, and cutting-edge research in the field. There’s no protocol for every situation.
Sterile training environments lead to complacency and decreased safety on real missions. Our real-world scenarios on multi-pitch terrain reinforce good techniques as well as increase confidence.
Strike Rescue has been a leader in instrumentation to investigate real-world applications of the equipment and techniques used in climbing, mountaineering, and rescue configurations. We do this for the sole purpose of teaching how to effect better, safer, and faster rescues. You’ll see other institutions who have gradually warmed up to this approach, but we continue to have the insight and fortitude to continue looking for better solutions to harder questions, despite what the status-quo is or how hard nosed and narrow minded some can be. Being open-minded, and to admit we don’t know all the answers, is what drives us to maintain a positive energy in looking for the answers.
Strike Rescue Training
Research shows that fast and efficient rescues give rise to better outcomes. Strike Rescue’s focus is clear: we have taken the best technical rope rescue instruction ideas in rescue technology, constantly improved on them, and created the most effective systems approach in technical rescue.
Our training utilizes an evidence-based approach. We employ experience from actual technical rescues, world congresses, the outdoor manufacturing industry, the mountain guide associations, as well as the latest information from both clinical medicine and the exercise physiology fields, in order to help form the constructs which make a best rescuer. It is important to understand the implications of technical rope rescue and human physiology as they are inseparable.
Strike Rescue is not protocol-driven technical rescue. Rather, our training employs a basic skills set that the rescuer can then draw from depending on mission requirements. Our training is tailored to meet the unique needs of your team, since this is indeed a life-long education.
The Strike Rescue mentality is the ability to derive good decisions in the face of potentially high-consequence events and exposure (managing risk and stress). Also simple in overall construct, the Strike Rescue approach allows the individual student to assimilate the information at their own pace, which will ultimately make for a better rescuer.
Our techniques are the best in technical rope rescue instruction and are based on scientific research and experience, not dogma, and definitely not expert opinion. Following evidence-based rescue techniques is indeed the world-recognized standard. The evolution of rescue is here.
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Expertise
Our instructors experience:
UIAGM/IFMGA (International Mountain Guides)
college degrees
military experience
OSHA
medical backgrounds from WFR and WEMT-Paramedic I/C to Physician Assistant, RN/Nurse Practitioner, DO, and MD.
Our staff has extensive mountain rescue experience and has provided training across the country for both volunteer and professional entities.
Strike Rescue technical rope rescue instruction staff have performed and presented some of the best award winning research in the rescue and climbing community since 2004. SR staff have developed programs like UNM DiMM, Multiple Guide Services across Colorado (avalanche instruction program), and have taught and presented white papers and abstracts at ITRS and WMS conferences. Check out our authorship through Researchgate.com.
Here’s some of Dr. Beverly’s works & citations that are addressed in our SR Courses:
Citation from Kolin Powick in his Black Diamond post on rebored ice screws (2019)
Harness Suspension Stress: Narrowing the Focus (2018)
Ice Climbing Anchor Strength: An In-Depth Analysis
Dynamic Shock Load Evaluation of Ice Screws
Multi-point Pre-Equalized Anchoring Systems
Measurement of Dynamic Rope System Stiffness in a Sequential Failure for Lead Climbing Falls