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so imagine that i am playing with the

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tube style device.
The higher my brake

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hand goes, the lower mechanical advantage

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it gives.
So here is the question, if i

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would have my brake hand right here, and

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my climber would take a fall at this

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moment, will i have enough reaction to

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bring my hand down or my hand will

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simply just get sucked into the device?

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and maybe i will get hurt and let go

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this hand and

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sad story. Ready, so to make this

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experiment a little bit safer, I started

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with my break hand a little bit above

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the belaying device go

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whoa

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ow

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i got my hand pinched in the device

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probably somebody's already typing in

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the comments, "oh you should never

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keep your hand here". 
Good if you have

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that feeling, then my job so far is going

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well so let's continue.
- Ready?

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yep

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well now I had like a reaction to go

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down because I was scared

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I was anticipating it and I went like

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The main reason for this demonstration

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is that I see mistakes both in beginners

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and advanced climbers.
Beginners,

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sometimes do this, where they take the

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slack

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very slowly as the climber is moving and

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then they lower the hand and do their

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favorite transition, and then they take

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the slack slowly again and rise the hand

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way too high

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don't do this!

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go!

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whoa

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yeah now I kind of learned the instinct

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I guess it boils down to how quick you

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are exactly my first was probably the

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most realistic where I was not like

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quick as

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what's the quick animal? you know a quick

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animal?

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cheetah
- yeah so if i don't have a

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reflexes of cheetah, the hand just goes

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into the blank device. m
Maybe also the

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glove provides better grip on the rope

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okay

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that's

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for you

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if Ii get hurt,

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please send me some donations! 
so now I'm

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gonna hold it really up, man this is

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scary! 
While experienced belayers

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sometimes do this.
If they see the

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climber falling and they decide that

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they want to take some of the slack out

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and they do this quickly. If they would

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miss time and their hand would go up in

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the moment where the climber would load

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the rope they might not have enough time

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to bring the hand down and the reason

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why i'm saying this,

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because

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i know a person who was dropped down

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with this device.
It's a click up it's

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assisted device

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meaning it locks

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however,

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if you have your brake hand up here

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it doesn't lock. The person who I met

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told me a story how his belayer tried to

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take out the slack really quickly during

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the fall but he fell all the way to the

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ground. So i'm gonna talk about belaying

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devices later but you must know that

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even some of assisted belaying devices

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do not protect from this. Man this is

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scary

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don't do this ever
Venga! (spanish for go!)

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just because I know that he's about to

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fall and i'm kind of

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ready to lower my hand so I'm not saying

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that taking out the slack during the

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fall is a big no, i'm just telling you

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what are the risks and if you want to do

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this be a cheetah, and if you're not a

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cheetah maybe use assisted belaying

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device which doesn't have this risk

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let's do one more

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i'm getting known already for being a

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bit crazy

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so one more of what not to do

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go

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man this is scary
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so

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it ended up here and I was holding here

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so it's not that much slippage

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but again just because I know also

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probably somebody is gonna comment that

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your hand shouldn't ever go up it should

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go forward and down

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but I guess if you're trying to take a

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slack really quickly doing forward and

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down

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might be not as quick and comfortable as

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something like this

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so in the end my goal is not to tell you

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what to do just to demonstrate what are

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the potential risks if you are not the

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cheetah or you are not aware that these

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things can happen like in the story with

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more life-saving tips here and here is a

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very in-depth course on climbing

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equipment and safe belaying and if you have

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seen all of it already good news I'm

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already working on new episodes for it

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