With last night being whipper night at team (sorry Tony) the below video that I found at the newly redesigned Splitter Choss Blog seems especially pertinent.  The video demonstrates 3 techniques that are used when belaying with a Petzl Gri-Gri.  The first 2 methods are good, the 3rd is apparently bad.

Last night was the first time I had belayed in a while, and I realized that I use the 3rd, apparently undesired, belay technique shown in the video.  I know that taking your right hand off is taboo, but trying to manually feed rope through a Gri-Gri like it is an ATC inevitably leads to you shortroping the life out of your climber.  Am I the only one that has been belaying unsafely for the past 8 years??

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Whipper Night…Unsafely? from Climbing Narcissist

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