Ahmad Bahktiar Othman

The Art of Not Kicking Your Participant Down The Abseil Rope Ahmad Bahktiar Othman

This book is a personal account as an abseiling instructor. You will be following my journey as I conduct an abseiling activity: the preparation, briefing, demonstration, despatching and debriefing. Since January 2016, I have had the rather fortunate opportunity to conduct abseiling often. Correction, it was very often that you could consider it as a weekly affair. (I do conduct other outdoor activities too just in case people think I am missing out on life.) In almost every session, I get to meet both the usual and unique characters up on the rooftop. There are participants who volunteered eagerly to attempt first but suddenly froze up there. There are those who would thought that could turn transparent and that I would miss out on them. There are those who admitted being scared but continuously stared at the face of 'Death' down the wall. And of course many more! I will be sharing some workable strategies that appear to work for my participants. I will also be relating them back to the different outdoor leadership and programming principles.