RoundTurn Knot Coach
iOS app by LORCAN MONKES. Education · LORCAN MONKES
- Store rating
- 0 / 5
- Store rating count
- 0
- Download price
- Free to download
- In-app purchases
- Unknown
- Version
- 1.0
- Listing last refreshed
- 2026-09-10
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Store description excerpt
RoundTurn Knot Coach turns rope skills into complete offline workouts—not a passive knot encyclopedia. Pick a real job, build the knot beat by beat, prove it is dressed and set, then lock it in with timed recall. WHO IT IS FOR Scouts, dinghy and ranch crews, camp counselors, SAR trainees, and outdoor-ed students who need practical hitches, bends, loops, stoppers, and lashes they can trust in the field. HOW A SESSION WORKS • Choose a seeded job scenario: dock cleat, spring line, guyline tension, trucker’s hitch haul, bowline on a post, sheet bend join, tarp ridge, bedroll, parcel lash, gate loop, hammock hang, clotheslines, and more—including clearly labeled intro-only rescue webbing and prusik demos. • Run the step coach: each beat highlights standing part vs working end, shows wrap direction, and blocks Next until you mark the correct crossing. Wrong taps get plain-language fixes—reversed hitch, missing round turn, uncleated tail. • Complete the dress-and-set board: tap hotspot rings on the finished form (fair leads, tucked tail length, equal twin loops, no crossed collars) and get a pass/fail rubric with one-tap “why it slips” coaching. • Start timed recall drills: blank prompt, rebuild from memory under a clock, compare to the canonical sequence. Left-hand mirror mode and a calm untimed rehearsal path are built in. PRACTICE PACKS & REFERENCE Three offline curricula—Scout camp basics, dinghy crew weekend, and ranch & trailer-tie kit—each with a fixed scenario set, short glossary warm-up, and final mixed drill. Browse knot families by job with side-by-side compare cards (security vs speed vs jamming) and “use this / avoid this” chips tied to scenarios. GLOSSARY & STANDARDS Bitter end, bight, round turn, working end, dressing, backup, and clear disclaimers: this app is a training aid only. Life-safety climbing anchors are intro-only behind a hard gate. It never certifies climbing, rescue, or life-safety systems and is not a substitute for certified instruction. EXPORT, WIDGETS, OFFLINE-FIRST Export a one-page crew-card PDF (knot names, finished forms, three field checks) via the system share sheet for your troop or boat crew. Pin Knot of the Day on the Home Screen—finished form, two critical steps, Open drill deep link. Everything runs fully offline from first launch on a local store of diagrams, packs, and drill prompts. Optional spoken step cues use on-device speech only when you enable them. Every open is a full skills workout: scenario, guided build, dress-and-set proof, and recall—so you leave better than you arrived.
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