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by geckodru
Tue Jun 05, 2012 11:57 pm
Forum: Sport
Topic: Decking at the Lode...
Replies: 166
Views: 48002

Re: Decking at the Lode...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gczsrz1wkmo Did you see this? Can you see how option 1 is a death trap? They were feeding slack with the Sum orthogonal to the standing belayer. Reiteration of a moot point is a moot point. Yeah I saw that video. There's no rope in the device. Even if Todd put a rope ...
by geckodru
Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:59 pm
Forum: Sport
Topic: Decking at the Lode...
Replies: 166
Views: 48002

Re: Decking at the Lode...

Option 1. Lightly grip the Sum between the pinky and palm of your break hand. Gripping the Sum and holding the Sum down appears to be the problem. Light grip might become death grip for the 0.75 sec that it takes to deck someone. -If this grip also controls the directionality of the device and if t...
by geckodru
Tue Jun 05, 2012 7:40 pm
Forum: Sport
Topic: Decking at the Lode...
Replies: 166
Views: 48002

Re: Decking at the Lode...

Two edits for typos and grammar mishaps. Thanks all.
by geckodru
Tue Jun 05, 2012 7:28 pm
Forum: Sport
Topic: Decking at the Lode...
Replies: 166
Views: 48002

Re: Decking at the Lode...

I have a lot of experience with the Faders Sum. When Faders was testing the Sum, I was lucky enough to be invited into the preproduction test group. I'd like to point out a few things about the device. First off, the breaking direction is down not up! Pulling the rope up produces a wide bottom U on ...