Rock Climbing : How to Belay Yourself While Rock Climbing

When belaying yourself while rock climbing, you'll want to double check to make sure everything is correct and that all knots are tied correctly. Belay yourself while rock climbing with help from an avid rock climbing enthusiast in this free video on rock climbing techniques.

Expert: Chris Sierzant
Contact: escaladegym.com/
Bio: Chris Sierzant has been an avid climbing enthusiast and expert for many years.
Filmmaker: Aaron Sinn

Series Description: Rock climbing takes a lot of practice in order to safely climb. Discover these rock-climbing tips from an avid rock-climbing enthusiast in this free video series on rock climbing.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• outdoors
• rock climbing
• rock walls
• bouldering
• figure 8 knots
• indoor climbing
• ATC belay devices
• climbing overhangs

[Quackenator]

3. A prussik will fail (slide) around 700-1000kg so for dynamic loading (a fall) that is not ideal.

4. A jumar/tibloc can shred your rope in loaded dynamically, for the tibloc, the carabiner has to be in a correct position for it to hold safely. Either case is less than ideal with the risk of a dynamic load.

5. The system shown in the video has no backup which is especially bad since you can't monitor it constantly (since you're climbing).

Whatever you do, be careful. Or just get a partner...

[Phunkie77]

and what about jumar ? It would be simpler...

[ELMONOPAKO]

DUDE WHAT SIZE IS YOUR HARNESS

[EpicHEH]

The grigri is not a self belay device.

This is more of a method of ascending, albeit a bad one. A better way to ascend a rope indoors is using an ascender/prussik with a grigri while occaisionaly tying stopper knots in the rope below you in case the grigri slips or you lose control of yor descent. I use this method to set routes at a climbing gym

[Northernblades]

@Quackenator Do not forget that while lowering,

the rope will feed through your hand at 3x the speed, of rappeling

Watch the rest of his videos, this dude is a MORON. and has not owned or manage this gym in over 2 years..

[Northernblades]

@Keithphotorama a shunt is also not rated for an fall forces.

[Keithphotorama]

@Keithphotorama Just want to add one more thing. This is for Indoor Gym climbing. Outdoor climbing I would rather Jumar with Petzl Ascension Ascenders with top-roping setup.

[Keithphotorama]

@SaintedFox I have used a Petzl shunt, but for me a Petzl Ascension Ascender works better. The Shunt tends to slip down the rope a little if there is not weight applied. The good thing about the Shunt is that it does not cut into the rope like the Ascenders.

[Keithphotorama]

@Quackenator You are wrong about this! Securing one end of the rope somewhere else IS NOT SAFER! In fact it makes the rope a lot more stretchy causing a LESS control, and a lot less friction enabling the climber to ZIP down the rope dangerously faster. Trust me IT IS NOT safer. The method shown in the video provides SMOOTHER BETTER CONTROL making it SAFER! The difference is significant.

[Keithphotorama]

I have been using this exact technique for many years and it works great for indoor climbing gyms. Use it for climbing, adding/removing climbing holds, and for wrestling on a over hang with someone using the same technique (we have lots of fun). For outdoor climbing I do Jumarring with Petzle Ascension Ascenders because they are so much faster to ascend, but use Gri-gri to descend. Jumarring outdoors is for when I take photographs of other climbers.

[grubwestatron]

i dont think this guy has friends to belay him...

[DaveLowe28]

@deadballo I used to rock climb then I trained as a tree surgeon and hence, the tree climbing. I really fail to see how a prusik is wrong for this situation. There is no real chance of a long fall when top roping so no chance of overloading the knot and it slipping. Granted it is not quite as simple a grigri and most people seem to have a distinct lack of trust in prusiks but there is a reason why all tree climbers in the world use this method and trust it. I may be way off but how is it wrong?