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Hardrock in the city at last 24-Aug-2007 At 1:27:30 PM Bluey

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I think the music's crap too. But onto more worrying things.....

Re staff not being climbers - (as a fairly experience belay slave, if not climber) I got told off for belaying correctly but not standing directly over where the brake device strap was connected to the floor....fine....I fix......but seems a bit worrying when last night I watched a staff member apparently surveilling the floor for bad-belaying wander straight past a guy with both hands above the belay device trying to hold his frequently falling partner by the rope directly! Maybe experienced climbers would ignore the irrelevant things and check if people are actually being belayed at all!

Don't worry, a friend stepped in to give the "belayer" some advice....

Incidentally, who gives a crap if the strap is at the right height and I'm standing right over the strap connection point? - I tend to find it pretty hard to attach myself to the ground directly under my feet when belaying outdoors!

And the spinning holds....freaking hell. How long does it take to fix? Clearly a fair while because now they have holds with "loose" written next to them in chalk. I've got an idea, while you're up there writing the word "loose" why not whip the screw driver out and actually fix the thing??