Grigri

Nope. It is the most popular assisted braking rappel/belay device ever. https://www.petzl.com/US/en/Sport/Belay-Devices-And-Descenders/GRIGRI

Self belaying is not an approved use of a grigri. There are some climbers that go against the recommendation, but they know the techniques and equipment well enough that they wouldn't have had to ask your question years before they do it. Don't kill yourself with a grigri. Petzl makes equipment for

Probably a petzl grigri

Yup, this exactly my gym. Because we climb early on weekdays, often the employees outnumber climbers and the employees are struggling for reasons to look useful, so they interfere with weird feedback that’s not always correct. Also, I’m left handed and the Petzl grigri video for lefties shows you ca

Petzl Grigri.

That they lied about their beacon problem and people died. And then they lied some more. Then they waited until they got a class action lawsuit against them before they issued a recall. Then their next line of beacons also failed. Then their next line also failed. Every company has recalls. The diff

No There’s several that lock by default The most popular for decades has been https://www.rei.com/product/151970/petzl-grigri-belay-device But that’s still not a reason for you to develop and patent your own solution, especially a small, light one that gradually slows you down like an auto-belay htt

IMO, just get a Grigri. The Revo can be a little... contrived. Neither are "safer" than the other, both are assisted braking devices. Climbing accidents rarely come from any kind of equipment failure, it is far more likely to be from user error and complacency. Do partner checks, check your knots, t

This question comes up twice a year, every year, probably based on course schedules. Climbing gear, especially belay devices, are pretty much optimized. Edelrid spent lots of time and money with people with decades of experience designing climbing gear and was able to make the pinch, which by popula

I mean…. They changed the geometry a bit and the new ones have a wider and slightly different range of ropes they are designed to accept. I seem to recall the old ones being grippier but it might just be that we all had thicker ropes back then. I see zero reason to think the grigri 1 is not perfectl