yes loll as soon as i got into climbing the f i r s t thing i did was pulled up a list of The Jargon it's like learning the accent in a foreign language. *most* important part
Québec ASMR My mom taught us to belay like that and when we tried to use it out in public everyone was like "Why are you using that ancient sketchy belaying method." I did not have a good answer for them. So now we do it the modern way.
Joy Fitzgerald the appropriate answer really was..... please show me a better way. Open minds and willingness to learn a better way is how you stay alive.... Look Back in time many methods have changed
+Québec ASMR Yes he will, that belay method was used for belaying with a Munter's hitch. Using that technique with a belay device is incredibly unsafe.
I learned this belay style. Then I didn't climb for like 13 years, then I started back in indoor (climbing to a soundtrack is new-- you're at the mercy of the desk person's pick; yesterday the kid was into like Skrillex). So the first time in the gym I started to belay my sis (who also learned the same style), and the employee freaked out. "What. Are. You. DOING!?" She'd never even seen it. All climbers & mountaineers used to do this. Like someone said here: 'Mountaineering, Freedom of the Hills.' Climbing's different now. It seems more diluted. Still ethereal, but very... crowded. I have a crush on this guy.
Funniest thing I've seen for an age, I recognised things I say and things everyone I know say. I'm going to watch my mouth at the crag from now on. Hilarious!
Yup, comes from using the munter hitch, where the break position is up, unlike for ATCs or Gri-Gris where the break position is down. Better to use a slightly less safe (but still very much safe and acceptable) technique that is well practiced than a slightly more safe but unfamiliar technique that one is likely to mess up.
he is never breaking off when he belays. when belaying it is always best to break before you slide instead of how he is doing it which is staying above the belay device and sliding. you want to pull the rope up then take your hand beneath the belay device then slide.
Dan Africk haha you realize how old this is.. I mean that's a first gen reverso. It's definitely not as safe but it wouldn't be the first time I've seen people who have been climbing much longer using "outdated" techniques.
When my friends and I don't know the beta for a route the other is climbing we'll, jokingly, sometimes say: 'just stay on the wall!' it's about as helpful.
I just caught how they shot it. Sometime around when he says this route is heady, you can see the other end of the rope swing into the frame for an instant. H'e not really belaying a person. He's belaying a rope. (Note he's taking rope--the other end should be attached to the climber's rig.)
