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3 Ways to Build a Top Rope Climbing Anchor
🕑 Added 2021-11-03 13:31:00 +0000 UTCBobby shows his favorite ways to build a top rope anchor on 2 bolts. 4 things to consider: Is your anchor - Strong, Solid, Secure and Redundant. Also, try to make your anchor efficient and equalized, with an angle of less than 90 degrees. Here is a list of quality gear that you can trust that would work great, if used properly, for top roping: using these affiliate links helps support this channel.
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The following anchors can be tied with variations of the overhand knot: Method 1: Limited sliding X Method 2: BFK Method 3: Quad Anchor Thanks Jacob for the quality camera work.
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00:00 2 Bolt Anchor 01:04 4 things to consider 04:38 How NOT to do it 05:48 Gear you need 10:36 Method 1: Sliding X 13:12 Method 2: BFK 14:17 Method 3: Quad Anchor 16:19 Method 4: 2 Quickdraws 17:34 Setting up the rope 18:41 Time to Top Rope
