Your right hand should be on the brake rope below your belay device.
Top rope belay technique.
Belay station with points connected by a chain.
In this video julie ellison climbing maga.
Brake the rope by holding the side exiting from the belay device against your hip.
A new climber typically starts with a style of climbing called toproping where the rope runs from the belayer s device and harness up through the anchor at the top of the climb and back down to the climber s harness.
Always be in a position ready to brake.
Attach a locking carabiner which must pass through the bight and belay device cable as well as your harness belay loop.
This is the setup you will see in indoor climbing gyms.
Ideally your rope should be clipped to a solid anchor below the top of the cliff so the rope does not rub over any edges.
The climber rope side of the bight which goes up to the anchor and back down to the climber should always be on the top side of your belay device.
The munter hitch will flip back and forth through the carabiner as the belayer switches from giving slack to taking up rope.
At the same time as your left hand pulls down move your right hand slightly up keeping hold of the rope so the angle of separation is around 90.
The munter is actually a two way friction hitch.
Regardless of the technique used the belayer must continue to belay the climber throughout the entire sequence never letting go of the brake side rope.
The munter hitch is an excellent mechanical belay technique and requires only a rope and a carabiner figure 6 25.
Climbing magazine is producing a series of how to videos in 2012 to demonstrate a number of skills and techniques.
You may encounter different belay station configurations.
In this method a static rope is safest and easiest to use.
If you re setting up the toprope from above build a backup anchor above the cliff and then set your primary anchor below the lip.
When not taking in slack keep the rope braked in the belay device.
Every climber will start off with learning top rope belaying.