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Should GriGris be alllowed in climbing gyms 10-Feb-2011 At 3:29:40 PM garbie

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On 10/02/2011 davidn wrote:

>You're presuming that the hand is on the bottom of the rope? People grab
>the cam with one hand, feed rope with the other (above the device), someone
>falls, you're holding the wrong side of the rope with the cam wide open
>and since you're not controlling the brake side of the rope, there's no
>friction on it other than your skin sliding over the rope above the device.
>
>Sure, you wouldn't do that, but it seems to happen a buttload to people
>who learn on grigris.

This is what made us ban them a couple of years ago after the accidents - people using this bad technique. But we don't see it here, and if we do we'll stop them belaying.