Climbing Safety Checks for Climbing Safety

Hi, my name is Jason Montecalvo with Sport Rock Climbing centers, and today we’re learning how to safely topper up climbing in indoor rock climbing facility; remember , climbing is inherently a dangerous activity and you need to seek professional assistance from certified instructors prior to engaging in this.
Now what we’re going to learn is our ten safety checks as a Climber and Belayer, we are not only responsible for checking ourselves but checking each other out as well. In order to do this we have an easy way to remember our safety checks and we’re going to do our ABC’s; A standing for Anchor, B standing for Belayer and C standing for Climber. We start by looking at the ground anchor and we have 2 checks on the ground anchor, check number 1 is “Is the ground anchor tight or tout?”; second, we want to make sure that our Carabiner we use to clip in is locked; next we move to B, B for Belayer. The first check a Belayer gets is making sure their harness is on properly, meaning that it is closed and snug on your body, the second check is the fact that I have clipped in to my Belay Loop with my Carabiner appropriately, third check, my Carabiner is locked and I can do that by squeezing it, the fourth check is by making sure that my Belay device is loaded properly, with the break coming out in front of me and the climbing rope inside the Carabiner. The last check will be C, C stands for Climber; on the climber we have 4 checks as well; the first check is that the harness is fit on properly, meaning that again, it is snug and all 3 buckles are closed, then we all work our way out by making sure the climber tightened to the crotch strap as well as the bridge, the 2 points worth of contact, third we’re going to look that it’s knot, the figure 8 follow through is tied correctly, where we see 3 sets of parallel lines, and last for our fourth check we want to make sure that our back-up knot or our double overhand knot is tied correctly as well, with little equals and a multiplication sign leaving us a little bit of excess to finish.
Next we’ll be learning how to use our Belay commands properly and our Belay vocabulary.


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