This course will teach aspiring riggers the basic skills needed to safely pull and hang rigging points for a theatrical show or concert. Instruction will include rope knots, rope maintenance while rigging, and working safely. Additional time will be spent on how to build rigging points and deciphering a rigging plot. At the end of the course students should feel comfortable working at heights or on the ground as a rigger.

• Formulating a rigging plot

• Layout and marking rigging points on the ground

• Building points

• Understanding floor markings

• Build or hang a dead hang point

• Build or hang a two-leg bridle

• Work with a two-leg diagonal bridle

• Work with a two-leg high-low bridle

• Breast a bridle

• Adjusting bridle leg lengths up on the steel

• Dead hang on a beam sloping downwards and preventing it from sliding

DATE: October 8, 2019

LOCATION: Jacksonville, FL

INSTRUCTORS: Steve H. Blomberg, Head Rigger & Nathan Eckenrode

This course is made possible through the IATSE TTF Course Reimbursement Program. If you are interested in this training, contact Local 115 for more information.