In this episode, “Training To Perform Under Pressure” instructor, Chris Theobald provides insight for how to properly pack a hose.

VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION:

 So usually I do is the Maleo coupling right inside this dress. Well now we’re gonna put it on that end and I’m gonna take this bite right here and I’m gonna lay it on edge. So I have it laid on edge, like if I opened it like a book, I’m gonna tuck the bottom edge and drive these down. And I make this paper airplane fold so that way I have a bite that.

Lives neatly, underneath both halves. And then when I open it like a book, I don’t have an extra twist in the hose, so it’s right there. Paper airplane bolt makes it nice and neat. So there’s a lot of different preferences on it. And depending upon, uh, what hose manufacturer have, what’s their tolerance, right? So like the hose I started with when we were racking packs lit, this was the fire quips combat master flow. And uh, the manufacturer said they had plus or minus three feet intolerance for their uh, length. So you have a 53 feet, uh, per piece of hose, or 47.

So once we found the two hoses that made our packs, the neatest, we rack them for that. So on this one, alls I’m gonna do is cheat a little hose to kneel. So he gets a nice bite and I’m gonna set my nozzle in line with knee as long as all three straps are grabbing it, it’ll rack nice and neat. And then we’re gonna kneel to the hose. It gives our hands free for the next size. We’ll just rack right over the top of it. If I had the coupling like in here, I’ll rack one bike behind it so it kind of evens up the top.

So we’ll see. There might be a little hump in the top where this side’s higher, but it should hopefully be even enough and hopefully, especially key straps, it’ll hold together just fine. My middle strap. I am gonna bind nice and tight that holds the whole bundle together and it’ll keep it as neat as possible. But I could tell you already, with a hundred feet of Hove, I knew that metal buckle needs to be down to about the edge of the bed.

And then these ones we snug up and that keeps it together, but it allows it to flex when I pick it up and put it on my shoulder and then my pet peeve or neurotic. Uh, tendencies. I want to get all three of my taps to line up on the same edge, so I’ll move the buckles and I’ll pull on these straps to get it to where everything lines up the way I want.