Getting Into a Rock Climbing Waist Harness

Video Transcript

"Once you get all of your equipments and needed materials to set up adaptive rock climbing for people with disabilities. Next thing you want to do is, you're going to need some helpers for you, for the day, to help pull someone up and down the rock climbing, to also set up the system. So today, my friend Amanda is here, and she's going to be climbing to the top of the rope, or the rock climbing wall, to set up our pulley rope. But the first thing she needs to do is, she needs to put on a harness. A harness is another piece of rock climbing equipment, it also helps ensure safety. People put the harnesses on- they're a little weird, there's a lot of different types of harnesses, check with your local rock climbing gym on what type of harnesses they have, and the appropriate way to put them on, just because there are several different systems. First thing you want to do is- so the harness looks like this, you want to put it on, sort of like a pair of pants. These blue loops here, are for your legs to go through, and the front here, this is called- there's a little black loop on the front, and it's called the balai loop. And once Amanda gets that pulled up, it's like a pair of pants there, the balai loop, which is this black loop right here, goes in the front by your bellybutton. And to put the harness on appropriately, first you want to tighten up around the waist, the waist belt, which should go up over your hips. And you want to make sure it's snug, but not painful. The test I always do is, I'll take my two fingers, and if I can slide them in, sideways like this, this is fine, but I shouldn't be able to turn my fingers sideways, it's a good rule of thumb of how tight your harness should be. And same goes for the leg loops. Great. It looks like Amanda is set up, and ready to go, now that her harness is on. So the next step would be, climbing to the top."