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Gym climbing difficult tonight 9-Sep-2005 At 9:12:28 AM dr_fil_good

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Wow!!! I'm seeing a lot of warning signals here!!! Two things:

1. perhaps your school should have someone responsible for the climbing wall who is an adult.

2. perhaps your school should have a preventative maintenance program - say, check the anchors and ropes for wear, sheath slippage etc. weekly and check the wall for wear monthly and all systems should be checked if a leader falls - esp. your bolts

Also, something that comes to hand that hasn't been pointed out is the Melbourne gym styles where they use the re-threaded fig of eight (good if at the end of the rope as I'm presuming) and the fig of 8 on a bight with the bina (bad) ... if that fails you're doomed - fig of 8's are only really good for one standing end - when you have loads on both ends of a knot a alpine butterfly would be much better (this is what we have in the gym in adelaide - belayer, rope over topanchor, alpine w/ bina, then re-threaded fig of 8 ...

just some food for thought