Understand How to Verbalize While Rock Climbing

Video Transcript

" To the last two terms when being vocal when climbing are belay on and belay off, the act of belay is when you have a lead climber climbing ahead and the person on the bottom that is going to anchor them so that if they fall that person is going to catch them. When you take somebody off the belay you always want to vocalize that, that way that person that’s climbing ahead of you knows that if they were to fall you do not have them anchored in and if they were to fall you would not be able to catch them. Anytime that person is taken off belay and then put back on belay you want to yell on belay and as a lead climber you’ll want to yell on belay so that the person knows that they need to cast you if you were to fall and those are some of the terms that you’ll want to keep vocal when you’re climbing."