Highly recommend for small women belaying big guys..

GoodGuinness

Member since  Nov 1, 2009

Posted on November 27, 2010

I've only used an ATC for the longest time to belay and ended up tweaking my right shoulder because I held it down so hard to break especially belaying larger guys. After going on a trip with a bunch of ladies my size, they all had grigri's and said that I NEEDED to get one. After belaying my boyfriend who is twice the size of me on a grigri, I probably won't use an ATC again to belay him. It makes a huge difference on me now when I belay him while he takes or falls, not having to use as much force to keep my break hand down compared with an ATC.