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Who is responsible for bad belaying? 15-Nov-2007 At 6:50:01 PM hipster

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Sorry but a thorough understanding of belaying practices and techniques takes time, a patient teacher, and plenty of time outdoors, something that used to happen before climbing gyms were "de riguer" and you'd go out with mates or do a proper outdoors course. You can't learn in 5 minutes in a crowded, noisy gym. Why should gym owners be responsible...bollocks I say.
Why all the mystery and awkwardness after an accident. If you're reading this and you've dropped someone through your incompetence then ,IMHO, you should walk away from climbing. In days gone by your mates would have enforced this anyway. Now you can just skulk into the gym and befriend someone else..
Nothing gave me the sh*ts more than a couple of years ago when a well-known climber dropped a mate. Nothing was said, anywhere, except their next comp results were promptly reported in the mags..