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top rope soloing 28-Jun-2007 At 4:18:02 PM Andrew_M

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On 28/06/2007 Eduardo Slabofvic wrote:
>Key to his method is a chest harness that keeps the Gri Gri positioned,
>he also drills a small hole in the base of the Gri Gri and has a small lanyard through this that >connects to the chest harness, thus keeping the whole thing in an upright position.

This could be a dumb question, but anyway...

Why is it critical to orient the Gri Gri in this way? I have never used one so I don't have a good sense of under what conditions they lock or do not.

Without actually taking real falls, the cinch _seems_ to lock well under any fall scenario (head up/down) without the need for a chest harness. I'm tinkering with Faders Sum at the moment for use in TR and rope solo and as far as I can work out it should be good too without a system to orient it. Bomber or Eduardo, please let me know if you think I'm about to kill myself...