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Learn how to rap with grigri before learning how to belay with one

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Wiled Horse · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Dec 2002 · Points: 3,669

Just a thought. Maybe less lowering/dropped climber accidents. 

Lena chita · · OH · Joined Mar 2011 · Points: 1,667
Darren Mabe wrote:

Just a thought. Maybe less lowering/dropped climber accidents. 

Only in a sense that people would be dropping themselves, and not someone else...   

Wiled Horse · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Dec 2002 · Points: 3,669

Ya think? In general how many of you learned how to rappel before you belayed? Like with an ATC or 8 device or something? 

Seth Monteleone · · Charlotte, NC · Joined Dec 2016 · Points: 51

I learned how to lead belay first and then immediately after on the next climb, I had to learn how to rap as my partner yelled at me from the ground, all with an ATC, but I get the feeling that this is not normal?

Joshua Dee · · San Diego, CA · Joined Oct 2015 · Points: 30

Or throw it away and get an ATC guide

Abram Herman · · Grand Junction, CO · Joined May 2009 · Points: 20
Joshua Dee wrote:

Or throw it away and get an ATC guide

I'll take "Things Luddites Say" for $500, Mr. Trebek! ;-)

Wiled Horse · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Dec 2002 · Points: 3,669
Joshua Dee wrote:

Or throw it away and get an ATC guide

That wont help with grigri technique though?!

BrokenChairs 88 · · Denver, CO · Joined Feb 2015 · Points: 240
Lena chita wrote:

Only in a sense that people would be dropping themselves, and not someone else...   

One of the best MP comments I've read; nice work Lena!

Wiled Horse · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Dec 2002 · Points: 3,669
BrokenChairs wrote:

One of the best MP comments I've read; nice work Lena!

Thats part of the point of the post. How many rappelling have dropped themselves?

Wiled Horse · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Dec 2002 · Points: 3,669

Grigris are not a fuckin rubik's cube

Josh Gates · · Wilmington, DE · Joined Mar 2017 · Points: 4
Darren Mabe wrote:

Grigris are not a fuckin rubik's cube

Totally. Nobody's ever killed themselves or somebody else using a Rubik's cube.

Joshua Dee · · San Diego, CA · Joined Oct 2015 · Points: 30
Abram Herman wrote:

I'll take "Things Luddites Say" for $500, Mr. Trebek! ;-)

Maybe, but not needing a to coordinate a simurappel is nice too 

Wiled Horse · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Dec 2002 · Points: 3,669
Josh Gates wrote:

Totally. Nobody's ever killed themselves or somebody else using a Rubik's cube.

Yeah that would be painful 

chris blatchley · · woodinville, wa · Joined Sep 2016 · Points: 6
Joshua Dee wrote:

Maybe, but not needing a to coordinate a simurappel is nice too 

I just spent all weekend rapping on a grigri, and my partner with an atc guide. just biner block. easy

Abram Herman · · Grand Junction, CO · Joined May 2009 · Points: 20
Joshua Dee wrote:

Maybe, but not needing a to coordinate a simurappel is nice too 

Oh, totally—I 100% agree with using an ATC for actual rappelling, there are very few cases where simul-rappelling is the better alternative. I don't think that's what OP is advocating though, he's just saying that maybe a good way for people to learn to use a grigri for belaying is to learn its feel on a fixed line rappel. I'm refraining from weighing in on that.

I guess I read your comment as not specific to rappelling, but that you were sayingan ATC is always better than a grigri, which is a position many people seem to hold, and which I definitely don't agree with. If that's not what you meant, though, I apologize for misconstruing your comment!

Wiled Horse · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Dec 2002 · Points: 3,669
Abram Herman wrote:

...he's just saying that maybe a good way for people to learn to use a grigri for belaying is to learn its feel on a fixed line rappel.

Ding

Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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