WTF is this shit with belaying like this!

[chris]

Are you seriously getting worked up by a 6-year old video demonstrating an out-dated technique?

 

And don't blame the guiding community - the American Mountain Guide Association is doing great and growing. Blame the land managers who can't come up with a simple universal requirement that guides be certified.

[glassgowkiss]

They always have their brake hands on the rope.

in a position it would do two things: jack and shit, and jack left town.

[ivan]

somebody explain in small words and slowly - seems i've stopped innumerable falls over the years w/ a variety of devices, sometimes sudden falls where i'm paying close attentions, sometimes not, pretty much always in the "palm up" position as whoever mentioned, and all w/o incident - why did the lot of us all avoid death? and gri's must always have a brake hand? i use it for rope-soloing and took dozens of falls w/o incident either.