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I took a belay test in 1970 to qualify to climb with my school's outing club. We used a concrete weight and a hip belay.

• lukeinator42 2y ago
  absolutely legendary. Like they would throw a concrete weight off the top of the wall, and you would catch it with a hip belay?
  • lazide 2y ago
    Talk about ow!
  • egl2020 2y ago
    We hoisted the weight way overhead in the field house on a pulley system. One pulley was for the hoist, and another simulated the anchor point that the leader was falling past. The weight was held by a releasable clamp, and when release was triggered, you got a simulated leader fall: lots of slack and lots of potential energy. The rope burn eventually healed...