The "TruBlue Speed" auto belay device fixed at the top of an indoor climbing route
An auto belay (or autobelay) is a mechanical device used for belaying in indoor climbing walls, in both training and competition climbing formats. The device enables a climber to ascend indoor routes on a top rope but without the need for a human belaying partner. The device, which is permanently mounted in a fixed position at the top of the route, winds up a tape or steel wire to which the ascending climber is attached. When the ascending climber sits back, or falls, the auto belay automatically brakes and smoothly lowers the climber to the ground.[1][2]
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An autobelay (or autobelay) is a mechanical device used for belaying in indoor climbing walls, in both training and competition climbing formats. The...
A belay device is a mechanical piece of climbing equipment used to control a rope during belaying. It is designed to improve belay safety for the climber...
have the belayer lower them down in a controlled manner to the base of the climb. Climbers on indoor climbing walls can use mechanical autobelay devices...
In climbing and mountaineering, the term belaying refers to techniques used to create friction within a climbing protection system, particularly on a climbing...
locks if the rope travels through it quickly in a specific direction. See autobelay. abseiling A technique by which a climber descends via a fixed rope that...
in which the rope attached to the person descending is paid out by his belayer. The technique is used by climbers, mountaineers, cavers, canyoners, search...
pitch of the climbing route, while their second (or belayer) remains at the base of the route belaying the rope to protect the lead climber in the event...
Rope-solo climbing or rope-soloing (or self-belaying) is a form of solo climbing (i.e. performed alone without a climbing partner), but unlike with free...
increasingly installed, and the world record can only be taken when a certified auto-belay system is being used. Climbing styles Climbing competition International...
event of a fall. Autobelay indoor climbing is usually a form of top roping (although there are lead autobelay devices) where the belayer is replaced by...
mechanical oscillations". 2001. doi:10.1109/IAS.2001.955949. "TRUBLUE AutoBelay". Head Rush Technologies. Retrieved 8 March 2016. "zipSTOP Zip Line Brake...
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(as "fixed" pitons) on some established free climbing routes, as fixed belay station anchors, in places where nuts or cams do not work; and are used...
pairs on a standardised 'speed climbing wall' using a top rope on an autobelay, in the shortest time possible. The International Federation of Sport...
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