On this page we gather together a handful of specialist products that are useful for roped soloing, whether Top Rope Soloing (once known as Shunting) or Lead Rope Soloing. The gear listed below is what we stock at Needle Sports that is considered to be suitable, but we are not offering instruction, nor are we qualified to do so. The best advice really, is to team up with someone who has already done a lot of rope soloing and learn from them, then keep up to date on the latest developments and refine your system accordingly.
Top Rope Soloing (TRS) and Lead Rope Soloing (LRS) are ever-evolving dark arts dependent on the latest gadgets available that are deemed to be suitable by experts in the field, never mind the fact that few if any of these devices are actually designed for the purpose. To keep up to date on the latest thinking in this area, the would be roped soloist would be well advised to check out the latest videos and information on the websites listed below:
Brent Barghan of Avant Climbing Innovations has many useful videos on You Tube.
Andy Kirkpatrick has a lot of useful information in his Climbing Notes - but you have to subscribe.
Pete Whitaker has a How to Rope Solo article on UK Climbing.