HOW TO belay with GRIGRI

The GRIGRI is a belay device with assisted braking. The belay technique is very close to the generic technique, but has a few specifics. The technique described here is the only one that Petzl recommends.

[Squids_Vlogs]

I'm here to read the YouTube comments from 5.10 gym climbers giving their expert advice.

[AurelienFrancois-ec]

Vidéo incomplète. Quel dommage. On ne voit pas la descente. Gros problème avec le levier de frein sur grigri standard. Beaucoup d'accident car mal utiliser ( frein ouvert et corde qui file dans la main, risque de brûlures et boom) surtout les débutants. merci de faire une vrai vidéo complète avec un assurage en cinq temps pour les débutants avec grigri . Pour c e familiariser avec cet appareil. Moi je l'utilise depuis 2ans c dangereux si mal utiliser ( corde qui file, difficile de gérer le frein) . Désormais je referme le frein avant de redescendre ma main droit (type 5 temps). Comme ça la corde ne file pas dans la main. Et du coup plu d'erreur de gestion de freinage .

[BenedictTanShanWen]

As much as I love the Grigri the unfortunate fact of the matter is all the people who have bothered to learn to use it correctly are already doing so; the rest are defaulting to optimism bias (Aka, it won't happen to me).

The skull and crossbones you put in the instructional flier aren't any good if people never read the flier in the first place.

I would suggest skeletonizing the bottom so that gripping under the Grigri puts the hand in contact with the rope.

[jimpasterczyk]

Fine; now show me how to do a double rope rappel with it or use it for rescue situations as I do with my ATC style device.

[jrblackify]

So, according to this video, belaying is entirely comprised of giving slack in two ways... umm, ok

[BrianAnother]

This video is how you give slack properly. It doesn’t cover anything else about belaying. Really disappointing to see this low quality of a video.