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  • January 1, 2023

    Skills Improve My Efficiency; Efficiency Improves My Skills

    By Daniel Holliday

    Efficiency doesn’t seem like a sexy or glamorous subject when compared to discussing the latest and greatest climbing products or machinery on the market. The new, shiny, expensive gear and the latest machinery I keep looking at in the arb [...]

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  • September 1, 2022

    Extend Your Climbing Career with Proper Maintenance

    By Lawrence Schultz

    It began somewhere around late summer or early fall of 2011, I believe. I woke one day to find that my wrist just didn’t want to move the same way. My thumb could barely move, and when it did, there [...]

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  • June 1, 2022

    Climbing Trends – Do They Live Up to the Hype?

    By Ryan Torcicollo, CTSP

    Over the last decade, the world has benefitted from technological advances that allow for widespread access to information. The field of arboriculture is no exception; a plethora of training and safety information is available at the click of a button. [...]

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  • June 1, 2022

    Wisdom Garnered from Years of Climbing

    By Tamsin Venn

    Charly Pottorff, Jr., owner of Wildcat Tree Service, a 12-year TCIA member company based in Manhattan, Kansas, only stopped climbing at age 70. Now 80, he shares his key to that longevity – staying fit. During his career, Charly Pottorff [...]

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  • March 1, 2022

    Canopy Anchors, Part 1

    By CRAIG BACHMANN, BCMA, CTSP, TRAQ

    Craig Bachmann, CTSP, presents the first of two SRS canopy anchor demonstrations at the TCI Magazine Trainer’s Test Kitchen during TCI EXPO '21 last November. All photos by TCIA staff. This article is based on a demonstration by Craig Bachmann [...]

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