In this article we will focus how to maximize your ability to use a throw bag, including breaking down throwing techniques, advantages of different bags, where to rig your throw bag, how to place yourself in a position to affect a whitewater rescue and other uses for throw bags. The most important aspect of throw bags is practice. As our friend Santi says "If you care about your friends practice your throw bag, if you don't want to have any friends don't practice your throw bag." When carrying and deploying a throw bag it will most likely be used to save someone else. It is probably the…