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Stop saying 15-Jan-2015 At 8:58:31 AM Wendy

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On 14/01/2015 timbigot wrote:
>Or the very British "watch me", as in "i'm pumped and or gripped and am
>very likely about to fall off and i'm not totally convinced your paying
>attention".

I use "watch me" to mean, I'm looking particularly suave and cool today and I'm about to do some spectacular move you'd hate to miss out on

Watch me is usually a very superfluous term - very rarely have i not already realised that my climber wanted my full attention by the time they get to saying watch me. Except maybe if they are out of sight and want to explain there was something they might hit if I didn't watch them closely, but then again, how much more closely can you belay someone that an already good belay?

I also like the tug on the rope system. I use 4 tugs though to reduce the chance that you might just be pulling up rope in two or three stages (like to the teeth, then to the gear ) and have that misinterpreted. Big solid tugs that stand out.These come with a general understanding of context - 4 tugs for safe will be followed by a pause then taking of rest of the rope in. If the rope keeps moving slowly, something else is happening. 4 tugs for on belay will be followed by continual pulling on the rope. If the rope doesn't move, something else is happening again.