Not impressed. Its a great concept but hard to use. I feel that to slide the slapstrap up you need both hands which puts you in a two points of contact position. The slip knots do not work at all and became frozen in place at critical moments on acent and decent. If you use the system to set loc-on style treestands you will find yourself in a position to have to untie completely to move below the stand after setting up the platform. In their defensive maybe this system is for saddle hunting only but I know fee bowhunters that use only one type of stand. I need the 2 rope system and have gone back to that ditching the slapstrap. I also adds a lot of weight to my hunting kit so again back to the two rope system.

Great concept for a rookie 62 yr old hunter however I’ve had more issues than I thought would happen. First, the prusic knot is useless after the first use. After 6 uses I removed it and bought an ascender for both lineman’s and tether. Second, it takes two hands to move the strap up the tree. Or you have to walk it up the tree. It is taking forever. Third, using the tether around limbs is extremely awkward. You have to move it high for the lineman’s and low for the tether going over the branch making it hard for both. I’ve tried different techniques and I’m now carrying a 3rd lineman’s to use for tether. This means more weight to carry making the included tether useless. Fourth, the ropes don’t move within the strap without manhandling the rope and it just wears me out. Did the, it’s horribly expensive when I have bought carabiners, a third rope, 2 ascenders and I leave the included tether in the strap. That’s $300 that I could have used two ropes, 2 ascenders and half the carabiners than using the slapstrap. I’ve watched YouTube videos to get hints however every video is shown at ground level and no one goes up the tree. I challenge HSS to post a video showing a hunter NOT a salesperson going 20ft up a tree with limbs to set a stand or saddle. If so I’ll post my 7 videos showing my use trying to get up a tree, they are quite funny unless your the one one the tree. I’ll keep working the problem but 2 weeks out of hunting season I’ll ditch it and go to two ropes and bag system.

Works perfectly

The concept of this product is great. However, I’m not a lineman’s belt guy due to the fact they are not fall prevention. They only allow two free hands. If a tree step fails you will fall or slide to the next step or branch, if you went around one.
So use two tethers! True safety!!!!
Furthermore, it takes two hands to operate, so you have to wrap a leg around the tree once your off the ground to hold yourself to the tree so you can slide it up. Too slow. I just can’t recommend it.
I have five years hunting exclusively from a saddle.

I was able to use it for the first time and it worked great for me.

Update to previous review after consistent use. I have been using this for over 1 month now. The tender hitch is so stiff that it's a liability. The grip on the tree is great but there is a learning curve to moving it up and down while climbing. Going around limbs is tough but I carry an extra linemans belt for that.

After emailing, messaging, and leaving voicemails with this company i got no response. I finally got through on the phone and was told how to break the hitch to make it adjust easier. After about 10 uses i have found that I have to break the hitch free (time consuming) after every climb up or down the tree. I will either have to buy a ropeman or tie a normal prusic with a tender. I'm not happy with the product.

I've used my slap strap 4 times now. I like that it hold it's place on the tree and I don't have to hang dump pouches from my saddle. However, the tender hitches are useless. They worked fine on my first use but after that they got so stiff that they were nearly unusable. I've been trying to break them in but there still pretty bad. I emailed the company a couple of days ago but haven't received a response yet.

Ok I am updating my review. After practice, I have learned the technique and it is awesome. I think HSS should put out a best practice video for sure.

I have to agree with the last review. Trying to stay against the tree and balanced while trying to move the strap is a bit tricky. I actually feel like this makes it a little more cumbersome. I think I will be returning

I absolutely love the idea behind this but it’s hard going up and down the tree with it if the climbing sticks had stand offs like the platforms be no problem but some more times in the field with it the stars may go up. To me if the spring was not so aggressive it may make it easier to move up and down the tree come down with it was sketchy the first time

Haven’t had a chance to hunt with it yet, but it seems to be made out of great quality material and I think it’s going to work great it already makes me feel safer