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so i ordered a grigri and it came today. for those of you who dont spend your lives studying climbing gear, its basically just a belay device that locks the rope off automatically when the rope is pulled. heres a pic:
http://en.petzl.com/petzl/SportProduits?Produit=203
but so you can use it to rig up a self belay, in which you climb and it belays you automatically so you dont need a belayer. you tie off both ends of the rope and then attack the grigri and as you climb it slides up the rope with you but if you fall it locks off and holds you in place. anywayyy, i tried it out tonight and it works soo much better than i thought it would. it was such a good investment. now i can climb up and down a lot to work on my endurance, rather than just strength with bouldering. today i did 27 laps up the wall and it felt sooo good. its such a different change to just climb a lot compared to just climbing short wicked hard and strenuous stuff. so i am quite pleased with that purchase. itll be excellent this summer cuz i know i wont get peeps to come climb with me as much as ill want to so this way i can just go and climb by myself. jyeahh isolation.
http://en.petzl.com/petzl/SportProduits?Produit=203
but so you can use it to rig up a self belay, in which you climb and it belays you automatically so you dont need a belayer. you tie off both ends of the rope and then attack the grigri and as you climb it slides up the rope with you but if you fall it locks off and holds you in place. anywayyy, i tried it out tonight and it works soo much better than i thought it would. it was such a good investment. now i can climb up and down a lot to work on my endurance, rather than just strength with bouldering. today i did 27 laps up the wall and it felt sooo good. its such a different change to just climb a lot compared to just climbing short wicked hard and strenuous stuff. so i am quite pleased with that purchase. itll be excellent this summer cuz i know i wont get peeps to come climb with me as much as ill want to so this way i can just go and climb by myself. jyeahh isolation.