You don't have to deploy the boats and don your dry suits to get in consistent throw bag practice.īefore applying these throwing techniques, review these five general principles of throw-bag rescues.Īlways get two throw bags if you can. Throwing can be routinely performed about anywhere, like the apparatus bay. The key to success with these throwing techniques is practice, practice and more practice. This throw requires the most room immediately around the rescuer but will achieve maximal distance and accuracy. Hold the end of the rope in your off hand and throw the bag with your dominant throwing arm with an underhand motion. This decreases the reliability of the rope landing across the victim.Īn underhand throw mimics throwing a horseshoe. Sidearm throwing takes a great deal of practice and the arc of the bag leaving the rescuer becomes more lateral than vertical. It does, however, require more immediate room around the rescuer to make the throw and it is far less accurate. This will achieve greater distances than the overhand and can also be delivered from difficult body positions. Hold the end of the rope in your off hand and throw the bag with your dominant throwing arm with a sidearm motion.
The sidearm throw mimics throwing a disc. It also enables throwers to be in the water, on the bank surrounded by ground covering and branches and on the watercraft.
You will not achieve great distances with the overhand but it is very accurate.
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