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Brian, About 20 years ago a friend of mine called it the boomerang shot and the name stuck ever since. Roger, My helmet cam is a standard NTSC 480 line bullet (lipstick) camera mounted on my helmet with industrial Velcro. The cables connect to a Sony digital 8 mini tape deck, I carry in my...

I learned the boomerang shot by accident. Pulling on the line to get the weight back for another shot. When the timing is too late you end up wrapping the line and weight around the limb its over. When timed just right the weight will do it's thing, come back at you. Man, does it save time...

Best place to practice is at a playground where there's some monkey bars or chin up bars. Stand back at a distance and toss the weight and line over the bars and just hold it. The weight will swing back and forth. During its swing toward you give a short, but quick jerk on the line. Be ready...

The truth of the matter is, Burnam, it's how I learned the shot. I figured if I could manage to get the line and weight hung up in some far off place I could learn how to control the energy and use it in my favor. It's just a little trick.

The boomerang shot. A method of retrieving the throwline and weight from far reaches. Accomplished through manipulation of the pendulum effect of a swinging weight. Executed by a quickly drawing on the line to shorten the arc of the swinging weight during its swing toward you. Thereby...

I was using a double line climbing system with a french prusik and minding pulley. For movement through the trees I used the tail of my climbline, boomerang shot, and tied a conventional old school tautline sytem.

Brian, I worked in those cypress about 2 years ago, and took all the hazardous conditions out. today there's probably more to do in them. It's a shame, those big cypress trees just self-destruct after reaching a certain age. Big and heavy!! The only remedy to keep them from breaking up in...

This is a third edit version of some cypress trees I worked in. The YOU Tube quality really lacks in low contrast light conditions. But anyway these were some nasty trees. Just plumb full of big broken limbs and hung up debris. Very typical of old cypress. Very dangerous to work in. <object...