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What Your Belay Device Says about you

18 May 2009 18,947 views 25 Comments
posted by limit

Whether you like it or not, what you choose to belay with betrays a lot about you.

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  • Special D
    Special D said:

    So true!

  • steve
    steve said:

    haha yes!

  • andrew
    andrew said:

    what about the hip belay?

  • ___ is More
    ___ is More said:

    LIMIT! this is your best yet… love this shizzzz.

  • Cm
    Cm said:

    You should add on to grigri “I’m a lazy bitch that can’t go ten mins without smoking a cigarette so I can only devote one hand towards belaying you”

  • arnold
    limit (author) said:

    how did you know that about me, Cm??????

  • Tendon
    Tendon said:

    the atc description is friggin awesome.
    aka REI hippie? thats what we call them folks up here.

  • Andy
    Andy said:

    Cause CM knows you Limit. douche waud.

    It’s good stuff though. I sport climb with my figure eight……

  • misty murphy
    misty murphy said:

    brilliant. thanks for the giggle.

  • Pimp and Crimp This | Splitter Choss
    Pimp and Crimp This | Splitter Choss said:

    [...] What Your Belay Device Says About You – Gri gri – I climb 5.12 bitch. Cinch – Can you handle my infinite nature? [...]

  • Taylor fucking Haring
    Taylor fucking Haring said:

    Dumb. Rocking a Gri-Gri tells a wall rat like me two things: 1: you sport climb too much to ever accomplish anything significant on rock, and 2: you have no idea how to escape a belay when your leader gets slammed on the head while on a wall.

    Oh, and climbing 5.12 doesn’t mean you “climb hard.” It means you don’t climb 5.13, and therefore don’t climb hard.

    You tossers.

  • arnold
    limit (author) said:

    5.13 hasn’t been hard since like 1983. Wanker.

  • r1skate
    r1skate said:

    I am ALL for the 8. Got one just like it. Rapping & belay device. It rules! Gri gri’s I call gay gays. HELLO

  • darmo
    darmo said:

    Maybe the ATC ought to say “I climb mountains in snow and rain. I climb trad, sport, do rescues and I rappel.”

  • Stephen
    Stephen said:

    well that makes me feel like a girl lol, but i have only been climbing for a few months

  • Brenden
    Brenden said:

    Where’s the hip belay fit in???

  • Brenden
    Brenden said:

    or at least the stitch plate

  • WTF
    WTF said:

    Wow! I thought all you hippie types were supposed to be laid back. Here you all are talking crap like your a bunch of cage fighters or something. YOU CLIMB ROCKS! Get over yourselves and lighten the hell up. You should be happy that new people are joining your sport.

  • Tasha
    Tasha said:

    Dear WTF,
    Are you kidding me? We just climb rocks, no we do not just climb rocks, we risks our asses, learn to work as a team/partners enjoy nature, and do something healthy.
    The people on this site are joshing around with other climbers…
    So why dont you go kick a ball around, and feel like the macho athlete you are.

  • Jon
    Jon said:

    seriously? Gri Gri’s are ok unless you have anything smaller than a 10 mm rope. If I used one on my 9.8 I would risk ripping the rope out of the device on any whip I took. ATC is the best for all types of climbing and is very versatile. When it comes to climbing I use the KISS philosophy. (KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID) the more you complicate a matter the more risk you inject into the situation. just my opinion.

  • jonny carson
    jonny carson said:

    The gri-gri and the atc are tied together in that you never own a gri-gri but have a couple floating around in your group of friends but everyone has an atc attached to their harness.

    Oh, and a lot of weed is smoked for all

  • oldschool
    oldschool said:

    where’s the Sticht plate?

  • douchinandcrimpin
    douchinandcrimpin said:

    Awesome, a site ran by a bunch of sarcastic kids ripping on everyone else. Funny at first, but now you guys just seem to be trying too hard to be “hardcore”. When did climbers get so douchey?

  • limit
    limit (author) said:

    Probably about the same time they became so sensitive.

  • Carolyn
    Carolyn said:

    Munter Hitch:

    a. I’m European

    b. I just dropped my belay device 6 pitches up

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