I think she secretly gets me back by short roping me 🤔😂 Moral of the story is don’t let a few pieces of gear cost you your life. If you can’t retrieve it safely leave it behind.

I don't know what makes me more uncomfortable; the amount of times the belayer lets go with the brake hand or how he barks commands at her like she's a dog.

or you can just do the Mexican clean up, remove the quickdraw and take a whipper. Repeat all the way down on every bolt. You are welcome amigo

Nice video! Just want to add that the risk of the belayer "flying out" of their untethered stance also happens in diagonal routes. Learned this the hard way with a friend some years back. Safe climbs!

Great video, the idea with clipping a biner to yourself to clean the overhang draws is handy, there is an overhang sport route in my area I have avoided curiousity until now

Difficult to be happy when you are stressed up with novelty and overwhelmed with tons of instructions without understanding exactly what is going to happen if you do or don't do something.

Good video, Mr Perry. A few little gems in there. Gems of send.

Damn I'm not sure if I just missed some dry humour here but I honestly felt pretty uncomfortable at the repeated direct commands at the confused wife, vs slowing down explaining and doing things safely (could be a learning experience for viewers too) I hope I'm reading too much into it

Hi Josh! Something that you can do that you didn't mention to stop the draw from sliding down to your belayer, and also make it a bit less awkward when retrieving a draw, is to switch the trolley/tram *below* the piece before you take it down. That keeps you closer and means when you remove a piece it slides down onto the trolley and not all the way down.

Another way to clean the first bolt of an overhanging route or one that moves off left or right is to trolly down to it like you showed, then use one of those quickdraws to go from your belay loop into the gear side (biner that is into the hanger or gear) to put you in directly to that bolt. Put a little tension on that QD, release yourself from the trolly and release the belayer side rope from that 1st draw. You'll stay put at the 1st bolt while the belayer takes up the slack that is in there now. If the swing is clean and not into some large solid object or another bleayer go ahead and enjoy the swing, if not downclimb the last few moves on TR. If you can't downclimb it your belayer can throw you the tail end of the rope or something else. I've been doing it this way for a few years now and it has worked out well, especially since I have about 50 pounds on my usual belayer. This also works if you are planning to leave the 1st bolt clipped for another run or your partner to lead it without needing to stick clip it between climbs. Clip into the 1st bolt biner with another draw, release the belayer's end of the rope, clip in properly to the 1st draw, release the additional draw, then pull the rope through from your end. You'll have a properly clipped 1st draw for the next go.

good thing you did it at home, close to people and a call to the medical center :-)

One QuickDraw costs less than one indoor climbing session. No big loss if one gets left behind.

What a charming guy!

Sometimes you you loose some Quickdraws on the route sometimes you win some QuickDraws on on the route. I have lost some carabiners and draws when had to bail but also I found some draws and carabiners from others that bailed

If the rope above the prusik was cut, wouldn't it slide through the prusik knot and now you're attached to nothing?

Love your wife! The best things in life are the things we most take for granted 🙃

when I bail i usually just pot the rope trough the spit hole and rapell down... I use some skiny ass beeners on my "zelb" exactly for these reason so he rope and the beener could both fit in the whole of the spit :). what do you guys call "zelb" btw ? zelb is the auto ensure rope tied to your harnest. we call it zelb in Romania...

crossloading the figure 8? have fun opening again.

giga Jul is a lot easier to lower with when you use your left hand in the thumb loop to control speed and use your right hand to add friction to brake strand

This is exactly why I free climb. In my dreams.😂

Not leaving gear kit- 20ft stick clip, Jamar, pulley, Trax.

I tried the mega juul and even got used to its operations. It's manageable, but never felt that smooth to me. Definitely finicky. The giga juul was a bit better, but still kinda meh?

3:08 looks more like she's saying "how did I get stuck with this slacker taking unnecessary risks for comfort? I need a man who wears a helmet on rope."

Mr Perry, Sir! I tell people a bail carabineer is the best safety equipment when leading. Why be sketchy? 😂 Also I have been thinking about gear recovery with a stick clip and a PAS; Say, 4 bolts up and need to bail. Lower to 3rd bolt, PAS in, Use stick clip to remove 4th bolt quick draw, Take!/Test/remove PAS, Lower to 2nd bolt, Repeat process What do you think Sir!

I might be wrong but aren't hollow blocks rated pretty low? So maybe make a prussik out of something else in case you actually do fall?!

When I need new draws I just hit gumby crags.

Helmet Gang ⛑️

You can also use a small cordelette instead of the carabiner, and if you get creative and the route is not too long, you can even recover the cordelette. (EDIT based on @Jamenfaendah comment: this is only intended for abseiling, not for being lowered!)

Clipping into the knot on the harness like that is essentially using a flat figure 8. Which isn't a life supporting knot. Would have been better to go directly to the belay loop. I don't think it really a big issue here but not something you should be showing people on the internet.

she was not happy :) just like my wife, haah.