Let's pretend that I am a very lightweight belayer.
And my climber takes a huge fall
which drags me up into the wall.
And if I panic and let go the brake side of the rope
to protect myself.
While my grigri gets trapped in the first quickdraw.
Is this gonna kill my climber?
I already made a video showing that
if you press on grigris cam
and not hold the brake side of the rope
that might end up fatal.
So let's see if quickdraw can also
unlock the grigri's cam.
If you get trapped in it.
If I am pulled
so hard...
Wow!
I mean that was like one shot experiment...
Though yeah well if you move maybe...
You will be going down... I still filming.
No, no. Keep filming. Yeah, it goes down.
So if I would not be holding this...
Yeah, if I don't hold this...
The climber goes to the ground.
So yes, quickdraw can unlock grigri's cam.
But to make this experiment even better
I wanted to see what happens in a dynamic environment.
Where i would fly up and jam into the quickdraw.
Unfortunately i'm not that lightweight
to fly all the way from the ground
into the first quickdraw.
So instead I decided to clip myself with a separate quickdraw
just below the bolt,
so I would need to fly less.
Pulling. Yeah.
Ah, no. The rope got pinched...
Pulling. Yeah.
Oh, no!
Whoa, the rope... oh, man... This is crazy what happened to the rope.
So first few attempts the climber was 'saved'
by the rope getting trapped
between the grigri and the quickdraw.
Or in some cases even wrapping around grigri's handle.
Which you definitely don't want to happen.
But then we got this.
OK, pull it. Yep
Whoa!
Yep, Yep.
All my backup went in.
So if i would not have this hand on,
my climber would be on the ground.
Attempt number two.
I'm gonna give you
one meter of
backup rope.
Yeah.
Whoa.
Yeah.
So here you go. Another reason why you
should never let go the brake side of the rope
even if you're belaying with the grigri.
And if you want more life-saving tips
check out this playlist.
Or if you're more geeky person
this one is for you.
And to all the good people
who want to support me,
what I'm doing here on this channel,
consider visiting my website.
It has different ways how you
can contribute.
And thank you so much.
And enjoy climbing.