Click Up

I've never used a Click Up, but when I've been belayed with them, even by people I know to be experienced and competent belayers, I've found them very prone to unwanted lock-ups and brutal short-roping. But then the highly unfashionable Alpine Up is my preferred device for half rope belaying, so ...

Can’t recommend the climbing technology click up enough, used it the last year for indoor aswell as sport and trad, great for top roping and lead climbing, catching with it is great, personally it’s my go to, always take a click up and an atc, but generally will reach for the click up.

I also think that the structural distinction between the ClickUp and standard assisted-braking tubes, such as the Smart or Mega Jul, is an important variable. The lack of a designed thumb-catch or ergonomic method to momentarily hold the ClickUp open while paying out slack often necessitate an awkwa

Yeah, so i’ve tired a bunch of belay devices and ropes in the past 2 years. A big change for me was going to a skinner rope, I use between 8.2mm and 9mm nowadays. Skinny ropes get some hate, but if you take good care of them, they’ll be just fine. For belay devices, i’ve tried the revo, vergo, click