petsfed
Jan 3, 2012, 7:34 PM
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camhead wrote: Here are the details: the official gym method for toprope gri gri belaying was to *lock off* your brake (my right) hand down behind your hip ATC style, then bring your other (left)hand over to grasp the rope, pull in the slack, lock off with your left hand down around your right hip, and then walk the right hand up.
That's retarded.
If you do the BUS (Brake-Under-Slide) method with an ATC, you have to brake straight down, not to one side. Its a radical departure in terms of posture and body position, which is why I'd teach it in beginner classes, and if I was coaching somebody who had no clue, but wouldn't correct people who (like you) showed competency with the other technique, which most all climbers from the 90s learned.
With a gri-gri though, you have to use gri-gri specific techniques, and apparently the dude at this gym hadn't learned any of those.
(This post was edited by petsfed on Jan 3, 2012, 7:35 PM)
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