IIRC the problem with BSAC's official position on "hog-looping" was that the people who wrote that stance had zero training experience with a long hose that runs under a can light at the right hip, across the chest to the left shoulder, behind the neck and into the mouth from the right side, and secondary backup bungeed around the neck.
I remember reading a memo from the higher up folks at BSAC....it's somewhere here on SB....in which they were certain "hog-looping" would strangle the donor, and a dive to demonstrate how it actually worked was being organized. I'm certain that training exercise never occurred, because if it had, they would've seen their fears were baseless.
Dalec's tale of a stuffed longhose getting trapped points out to me that BSAC's insistence on stuffing the long hose is not the best choice. That coupled with the inability to re-stow the longhose if stuffed, when other posters have made clear why you'd want to do so, makes BSAC's position untenable to me. And the whole "we teach secondary donate not primary take" has always seemed like a red herring tacked on afterwards to justify their position. If you will pardon my mixed metaphor.
The idea that people were teaching themselves incorrectly how to use a long hose from the internet is easily remedied by *teaching them how to do it properly in a class*.
BSAC has much to recommend it but their stance on "hog-looping" is antiquated and out of step with other training agencies. Pity.
I remember reading a memo from the higher up folks at BSAC....it's somewhere here on SB....in which they were certain "hog-looping" would strangle the donor, and a dive to demonstrate how it actually worked was being organized. I'm certain that training exercise never occurred, because if it had, they would've seen their fears were baseless.
Dalec's tale of a stuffed longhose getting trapped points out to me that BSAC's insistence on stuffing the long hose is not the best choice. That coupled with the inability to re-stow the longhose if stuffed, when other posters have made clear why you'd want to do so, makes BSAC's position untenable to me. And the whole "we teach secondary donate not primary take" has always seemed like a red herring tacked on afterwards to justify their position. If you will pardon my mixed metaphor.
The idea that people were teaching themselves incorrectly how to use a long hose from the internet is easily remedied by *teaching them how to do it properly in a class*.
BSAC has much to recommend it but their stance on "hog-looping" is antiquated and out of step with other training agencies. Pity.
