Vergo

A birdie is like a worse grigri by most measures. It weighs 1 ounce more, doesnt feed any better, and doesnt have a progressive lowering handle which makes the lower less smooth. It is cheaper but I would not recommend it or the madrock lifeguard. They are inferior to grigri and its other clones Dep

The device you need for the ability to rappel is called a trango vergo, Madrock (hard to find), or a petzl gri gri +. Make sure you get large enough rope (9mm or bigger usually) to fit the specs. I run a trango vergo on a small bridge, then a longer bridge to a longhorn agile knot. Basically running

I think they meant lead solo based on the devices they showed. If we're talking TRS my setup of choice is Trango Vergo over CT Roll N Lock. Pretty similar to yours actually

To the “everyone should know how to use an ATC” crowd. I get it, I’m old too, it is objectively the better feeding and more versatile device. It’s also usually not allowed at most gyms, and this person is going to be learning at a gym…IMO that’s a good thing. Whether or not gyms should be teaching w

Madrocks can be hard to find (or at least have been last few months) I have a trango vergo and really like it. Mechanical is the most straightforward way to go, but if cost was an issue, no reason you can’t safely do it with a munter and a friction hitch. That particular hitch (longhorn agile) could

I’ll add my 2 cents as someone who used to run sticks plus aiders, but recently switched to SRT. If you want a mechanical device you can ascend and descend on, look into the trango vergo or the petzl grigri +. I would highly recommend buying enough 9mm rope (sterling CIV or teufelberger canyon elite

I'd recommend anything with assisted breaking, whether that's a GriGri, NEOX, Pinch, Smart, Mega/Gigajul or anything else that's rated for it. I haven't really got on well with the Trango Vergo or Wild Country Revo, but just about any other assisted breaking device works well for me

The only device universally usable for both TRS and belaying I know is Trango Vergo (with one backup device for TRS). It's however quite hard to find it outside of USA.

No, if you want to use two Revos just use them in parallel with two ropes, that's a pretty good system some people are using. I use a Taz Lov but I recently ordered a Sulu Go and will be trying that out, and I also hope to try out the Trango Vergo soon. You can use a Grigri with a Revo backup, you w