Bizarre clip in AAC Video re Anchor Cleaning

Stumbled across this video about anchor cleaning technique, and noticed something in the video montage at the intro -- specifically, at 0:16.  The belayer seems to catch a fall and then drops the brake strand and proceeds to check her locking carabiner with her brake hand.  What the hell?

I must really be bored at work... but she's not catching a fall, she's pulling the lead rope to check the grig then checking the biner...

Are we watching the same video? I see a rope feed check, belayer then yanks on the climber side to test the device locks / is threaded correctly (you can see the climber side of the rope going to the ground so it isn't a fall), then checks the carabiner to make sure it's locked. I do those things before every climb, not necessarily in that order though.

Yea are you not watching the video you linked at 16 secs she is pulling the rope herself to make sure it locks and than testing the biner to make sure it is locked as well. She isn't belaying anyone yet the rope is coming out of the device going to her hand and than going back down to the ground.

frog pirate wrote: Are we watching the same video? I see a rope feed check, belayer then yanks on the climber side to test the device locks / is threaded correctly (you can see the climber side of the rope going to the ground so it isn't a fall), then checks the carabiner to make sure it's locked. I do those things before every climb, not necessarily in that order though.

You must be really, really bored.  It’s an intro video and yeah...there’s nobody on the other end.  It is a little bizzare that she drops the brake strand but the point seems to be more about double-checking systems and it’s not a demonstrated technique.

Ted Pinson wrote: You must be really, really bored.  It’s an intro video and yeah...there’s nobody on the other end.  It is a little bizzare that she drops the brake strand but the point seems to be more about double-checking systems and it’s not a demonstrated technique.

Yes -- really, really  bored at the moment.