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St Peters Gym accident 20-Sep-2016 At 3:58:19 PM rightarmbad
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Fist of all, condolences and hope recovery is quick and total.

Second,doesn't matter which rope or biners, if you hold the brake side rope it will arrest any normal fall.
Especially one from the top of a route where the forces are the lowest due to plenty of rope out and low fall factor.

The problem here is bad habits belaying often learn't from using assisted devices.
I see it all the time when I visit gyms, no contact whatsoever with the brake side rope as the rope is thrown into the device for clipping high.

Now I don't always have a hold of the rope, but my hand is always around it as it slides.
But I continually see total release of the rope and then recapture which is fine until there is a fall at the exact time that you have let go of the rope.
Once the rope starts to run there is really very little that can be done and about all you can hope to achieve is burnt hands.

These three videos should be compulsory watching for all climbers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOIAYx-d4HE

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