Talk:Abseiling

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[edit] possibly defaced?

"Abseilen is also used as a slang expression in German, meaning "to avoid doing something" or even sometimes "to defecate". First one is a common expression among Bundeswehr soldiers."

I'm interested in rock climbing, not supposed ways of nazi swearing. If, by rare chance, this definition is true, it's still not relevant to this subject of Rock climbing. Also, the phrase I am most familiar with is "Rappeling." Perhaps "Rapelling" should be a page of its own, dedicated solely to rock climbing.

I just removed the whole paragraph, since it contributed essentially nothing to the topic of descending via a rope. However, it turns out that the definition appears to actually be correct; to see this, Google on "scheißen abseilen". Scheißen is a more common German swear expression for defecating. Also, I personally find your equating of "German" and "Nazi" to be much more offensive than the word "defecate". MrRedact 23:52, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Request for historical elaboration

Disclaimer: I have done little to no editing of Wikipedia. Please excuse me if this is not the proper way of approaching this.

I wonder if those who maintain this article might be persuaded to expand it a bit (assuming that they are more educated in the matter, as I am quite the novice). I came to Wiki to see if I might find more information on the history of rappelling (abseiling) and there is really not much to this article in the way of history.

For instance, I found this rather interesting page (which, by the way, I believe could be incorprated into Wiki): http://www2.uiuc.edu/unit/armyrotc/program/rappelling.html

Moreso than the current Wiki page, this leads to even more historical questions like, how did the term swiss seat catch on (other than the obvious geographical origin) & how about the Australian Rappel (same vein)?

Anyway, if anyone has more information pertaining to this topic, I encourage you to share it, as there is at least one person quite interested in finding out more...

--65.103.143.2 03:17, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC) [crimson30]

Tried to put the history up the best I could.

Geosal 05:25, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Style

This article is not written as an encyclopedia article but instead as a guide for how to abseil.

Maelgwn 01:01, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] How to

I moved the howto paragraph here : Talk:Abseiling/Howto -FlubecaTalk 00:51, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] No explanation of technique

Probably because the "how-to" element wasn't appropriate to an encyclopedia, a discussion of technique is missing completely! I came to the page to understand what rappelling is, and I still don't know. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.103.208.72 (talk) 21:47, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Absail or Abseil

It is abseiling as opposed to absailing, so would someone plan to absail or abseil. Alexsanderson83 (talk) 23:16, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] No mention of military applications

Isn't this a widely used technique in the military and by law enforcement officers? Acceptable (talk) 01:02, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

I've changed rapelling from a redirect into an article to expand on this technique. bahamut0013♠♣ 17:31, 11 May 2008 (UTC)