Click Up

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.

gigajul is awesome but not with gym topropes, which are a bit much for it. belay devices are tools designed to match a job, not a single one size fits all thing. You want something to learn to belay indoors on, that is probably any regular toothed belay device, or an assisted device. The regular too

I often switch my hand when belaying so can do left or right. I have a petzl reverso- but any tube device is good for either hand. For an auto locking device I use a click up. It’s effectively the same action as the tube devices and isn’t handed for left or right.

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

I agree with the core of it, that pistol grip devices are mostly just fluff, however the praise for the Jul is misplaced. I own a megadjuk and it has been my only device for many years. I like it's versatility, that you can use it in guide mode, and with half ropes. It sucks with all of my ropes tho

That is a fair assessment. Ascending the rope or hauling a climber under tension is arguably the scenario where the GriGri's mechanical advantage is most apparent. For my own routine, I still find myself reaching for the ClickUp simply because it feeds rope so smoothly. When belaying top-ropers or l

Like some others said, just use whatever you are comfortable with. I, for example, never liked the GriGri. I used to use an ATC, but then switched to the Click Up years ago. Once gotten used to, it feels almost like an ATC. Not saying that you are supposed to get that one, just saying that there are