Hi, I’m Jason Montecalvo with Sport Rock Climbing Centers and today we’re learning how to safely climb in an Indoor Rock Climbing facility, remember climbing is inherently a dangerous activity and you want to seek professional help with certified climbing instructors before engaging in this.
Now I’d like to show you the correct Belay vocabulary and Belay commands that we need to know as a Belayer and as a Climber before we climb. The standard in the industry is going to be a question that comes from my climber; the first question is going to be “are you on Belay?” If I am prepared, and everything is tight and ready to go and we’ve done our safety checks, our reply, “Belay is on”. Next, she will ask me one more question and that would be “May I climb?” and I will reply if I am ready, “climb on”. At that point we have a few other terms that we need to be aware of as a Belayer and as a Climber, the first to being Take, if my Climber wants to take a rest, she will say “Take”, at that point as a Belayer I will take out any bit of rope stretch that I already had, I would put the break on and I will go ahead and hold her in that position; another word that you might hear from a Climber is the word “Falling”; in this case as a Belayer, I’m supposed to taking out any bit of slack and putting on the break, I simply want to put the break on if I hear her say “Falling”. When she gets to the top, she’s going to say “Take” so I can take out any either rope stretch, put the break on and at that point she can get ready to be lowered, she will say “Ready to lower”, and I will tell her “On me”, meaning that now her life is on me. At this point she can get into lowering position and at this point I would tell her “Lowering”, I will slowly lower her back to the ground, and when she reaches the ground with both feet, I will tell her “You’re now off Belay” and she can untie.
Now I’d like to talk about how to properly back-up Belay, and then we’ll look at the full system in action.
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