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Chockstone Forum - General Discussion

General Climbing Discussion

Poll Option Votes Graph
No, ban them 5
10% 
Yes, we want to use what we want 40
77% 
I'm on the fence on this one, I should be ashamed. 3
6% 
I like em, but ban them if u have to. 4
8% 

Topic Date User
Should GriGris be alllowed in climbing gyms 10-Feb-2011 At 9:25:22 AM Richard Delaney
Message
On 10/02/2011 davidn wrote:
>There's really two different questions - what should we allow for top-roping,
>and what should we allow for lead.
>
Thanks Dave, you're right. Let's sort out what the question is. Also the thread title seems to be inconsistent with the poll options.

For Top Roping I've always struggled with the issue of whether it should be getting people ready for "the real thing". I'd like to say yes however I suspect 95% of gym climbers never get out there on rock. In tht case - given the reality of the job and impossible level of supervision and boredom and $ - gym opperators would seems to little choice. Build it as safe as possible. Hence the prevelance of Slow-Go pulleys at the top of all the routes. These little guys spin freely in one direction but lock in the other (beautiful bit of engineering!) and have a round turn of rope as part of the threading.

With Slow-Gos, all feeling of lowering is lost.

As for leading hmmm...

Richard

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