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Free Fall Product Comparison
The QuickFlight Series combines the thrill of bungee jumping with the safety and reliability of Head Rush Technology’s patented magnetic braking system. This is the same advanced braking technology that we use across our full family of adventure devices. Our braking system is trusted to protect ...
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How to Replace the Webbing in a TRUBLUE iQ Auto Belay
Once you know the process, replacing the webbing on your TRUBLUE iQ or iQ+ Auto Belay is quick and easy. TRUBLUE iQ webbing is field replaceable, meaning that you do not have to wait until your next annual service appointment to change out the webbing. You can do it yourself! The process does not ...
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TRUBLUE Auto Belay Product Comparison Video
At Head Rush Technologies, we engineer and manufacture three different models of auto belays for climbing facilities to choose from: the TRUBLUE iQ, the TRUBLUE iQ+, and the TRUBLUE SPEED. All three TRUBLUEs come with our patented magnetic braking technology and are certified for a user weight ...
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How to Modernize Your Zipline Braking System
Modern zipline courses have come a long way in recent years. With customers clamoring for ever-longer and faster rides, zipline operators have turned what was once a simple formula – a platform, a cable, a ladder for retrieving dangling riders – into a carefully calculated engineering ...
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5 Key Safety Steps When You Clip into a TRUBLUE Auto Belay
Once you’ve learned the basics, it’s easy to climb on a TRUBLUE Auto Belay. By following these five simple steps, you can get started quickly and keep climbing safely, route after route. Here’s what you need to know to get started.1. Check for webbing retractionAs you begin to climb, the ...
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Climbing on Auto Belay: What You Need to Know
The popularity of indoor climbing in particular has skyrocketed in recent years, driving huge demand for climbing wall access across a variety of facilities and, in some cases, kickstarting entirely new industries. For many climbers, the tendency is to think of this growth in terms of building new ...
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The Olympics are Over, but Speed Climbing is Here to Stay
It’s been over a year now since Sport Climbing made its Olympic debut, unveiling the highly controversial combined scoring format that gave equal weight to lead climbing, bouldering, and the relatively unknown speed climbing, and saw thousands of Ondra fans around the world crying foul (more on ...
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Why More FECs Trust TRUBLUE Auto Belays
Family Entertainment Centers have an unusual challenge when it comes to designing climbing walls. For one thing, their core user base is almost entirely made up of kids and early teens, many of whom have never climbed before. As an additional challenge, the sheer quantity of users wanting to get on ...
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Why More FECs Trust TRUBLUE Auto Belays
Family Entertainment Centers have an unusual challenge when it comes to designing climbing walls. For one thing, their core user base is almost entirely made up of kids and early teens, many of whom have never climbed before. As an additional challenge, the sheer quantity of users wanting to get ...
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A Kid’s Guide to Gym Climbing (for Grown Ups)
For kids, learning to climb takes on a different meaning than it does for teens or adults. The benefits of climbing for child development are well documented. Climbing helps kids to improve their creative problem-solving skills, spatial awareness, coordination, strength, endurance, and ...
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