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overlord
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that depends. i usually yell "rock" or "beware" (doesnt sound like "belay" in slovenian).
plus it usually doenst matter what you yell, smart people start lookig for safety as soon as somebody yells something above them.
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taualum23
Mar 16, 2005, 3:23 PM
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One time in redrocks I dropped a #4 camalot, and I scremed "Hello, watch out, I seem to have accidently dropped my large spring loaded camming device!!!!!!" But by then it had already impacted squarely with my belayer's forehead.
In the US, just yell ROCK!
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rockhound71
Mar 16, 2005, 3:32 PM
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The sky is falling! The sky is falling! :P
Seriously, if it's rock or gear (hopefully not), I yell, ROCK!!!
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jammer
Mar 16, 2005, 4:39 PM
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T10 RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
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sspssp
Mar 16, 2005, 5:20 PM
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In reply to: "ROCK!!!" is so simple... I occasionally change it up by saying "pebble" if it is so small my partner would barely feel it.
I normally yell ROCK. However, when it is small (and would only be a problem it got in your eyes), I will also yell PEBBLES, which means, don't look up.
If I drop something so big that my belayer has to avoid it at all cost (or be seriously hurt/killed), I yell LOOK OUT, which means, you got to look and be ready to move.
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chronicle
Mar 16, 2005, 5:36 PM
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No matter what it's always ROCK.
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rendog
Mar 16, 2005, 5:59 PM
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when rockclimbing it's ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOCK!
when ice climbing and it's a big chunk of ice, not your normal shedding of ice bits it's ICCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCE!
nothing else should be said
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hema
Mar 16, 2005, 6:02 PM
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Kivi or Jää, mayby if climbing near Germany stein.
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the_antoon
Mar 16, 2005, 6:29 PM
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the point of yelling rock is not to let someone know a rock is falling...it's to let them know something is falling. If it's a rock, yell rock. If it's a chunk of ice, yell rock. If it's a biner, yell rock. If it's your cell phone, yell rock. If it's a Marvin Gaye album, yell rock. If it's If it's a 1979 pink cadillac, yell rock. Starting to get the hang of this? This is not something that you and your belayer can make your own commands for (like on belay/belay on). This is something that, if you use it, everyone around should instantly know to get out of the way. That is why yelling rock has become universal.
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livingtheedge
Mar 16, 2005, 6:38 PM
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What should I yell again?
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superflea
Mar 16, 2005, 7:24 PM
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I agree that the intensity of my "rock" exclamation is directly related to the size of the object that's falling. As a good illustration of what not to yell, I was once on a college-sponsored rock climbing trip with a group including a couple of guys who had next to no social skills and absolutely no common sense. One of them was at the top of a cliff we were top-roping and hadn't buckled on his helmet. He looks over the edge to check out the climbers and the helmet goes careening off his head. He yells "helmet" and the climber below him looks up and narrowly misses being beaned in the face. Later the climber told us that his first thought at hearing "helmet" was "but I've got my helmet on..."
btw, the guy at the top was from then on referred to as "Helmet", while his sidekick was later dubbed "Tool"
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erbolache
Mar 16, 2005, 7:39 PM
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Here in Lima, Perú, we yell ¡¡¡¡PIEDRAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! (stone in english)
also there are some changes
when throwing the rope before a rapell, we yell ¡¡¡¡CUERDAAAA!!! (rope)
usually if it is something that cost money, like a cam, a biner or your cell phone we say to ourselves "uy chucha" or "chez", then comes "ta mare", then we yell ¡¡¡CUIDAOOOOOO!!!! (beware)
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markc
Mar 16, 2005, 7:42 PM
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In reply to: I have one friend who says, "Headache.", when he drops anything.
Has he worked construction? When I was a sweep, we commonly yelled "headache" before chucking items off a roof/chimney. I knew what it meant the first time I heard it on a job site.
Like the majority, I yell "Rock!" as loud as I can. I will call out repeatedly until I'm reasonably sure the rock has reached the end of its travels. Ever dislodge something small on a ledge, scream bloody murder, then have it stop two feet from the edge? It's better to be careful, but I generally feel like an ass at that point.
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angelaa
Mar 16, 2005, 8:59 PM
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In reply to: One of them was at the top of a cliff we were top-roping and hadn't buckled on his helmet. He looks over the edge to check out the climbers and the helmet goes careening off his head. He yells "helmet" and the climber below him looks up and narrowly misses being beaned in the face. Later the climber told us that his first thought at hearing "helmet" was "but I've got my helmet on..." btw, the guy at the top was from then on referred to as "Helmet", while his sidekick was later dubbed "Tool"
:P One can never forget Helmet and Tool!!!
& then you had to climb Devils Tower with Helmet!
& and tradclimbinfool got stuck climbing with Tool!
:lol: Oh the memories!
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miuralover
Mar 16, 2005, 9:53 PM
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You know you've been climbing too long or to much when...
This one time I was playing ultimate with some friends but there was some new grass seed near the back of one of the end zones and the city had put one of those orange plastic fences around it. Sure enough at some point this disk goes floating into the end zone, a firend and I are both charging after it when I look ahead see the fence rapidly approaching. All I could think to yell was "ROCK!!!" rather than "Watch Out" or "STOP!". Anyways he hit the fence but still caught the disk.
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kman
Mar 16, 2005, 10:05 PM
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Yelling anything before rock is wasting time. By the time you get out oh fuk or oh sh!t it may have already hit them by the time you get to ROCK!!! It's pretty straight forward really and not confusing to yell ROOOOOCCCCKKKK!!!
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cfmwh
Mar 16, 2005, 10:10 PM
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"ROCK!" always. Usually by the intensity and inflection of "ROCK!" can my partner(s) determine the gravity (pun intended) of the situation.
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Mar 16, 2005, 10:12 PM
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In reply to: In reply to: I have one friend who says, "Headache.", when he drops anything. Has he worked construction? When I was a sweep, we commonly yelled "headache" before chucking items off a roof/chimney. I knew what it meant the first time I heard it on a job site. Like the majority, I yell "Rock!" as loud as I can. I will call out repeatedly until I'm reasonably sure the rock has reached the end of its travels. Ever dislodge something small on a ledge, scream bloody murder, then have it stop two feet from the edge? It's better to be careful, but I generally feel like an ass at that point.
He does tree work.
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johnclimbrok
Mar 16, 2005, 10:19 PM
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usually works well.
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josephgdawson
Mar 16, 2005, 10:43 PM
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oh fuck
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saxfiend
Mar 16, 2005, 11:57 PM
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No -- that's what you yell when you're belaying and you hear your partner yell ROCK! :P
JL
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tboothby
Mar 17, 2005, 4:24 AM
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So for those of you in the UK, you still use "belay on" and "belay off" commands? If so do you ever have problems with miscomunications yelling "below" when a rock falls?
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nicklambert
Mar 17, 2005, 10:28 AM
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In reply to: So for those of you in the UK, you still use "belay on" and "belay off" commands? If so do you ever have problems with miscomunications yelling "below" when a rock falls?
Well, I use 'Off belay', but not 'On belay'. I've never encountered a confusion between these and 'below', probably because it is almost always the second shouting 'off belay' from his/her stance. (I use 'Climb when ready' when I've got someone on belay.)
Cheers,
Nick
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tboothby
Mar 17, 2005, 3:51 PM
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Ok, I just asked because I heard a story about a pair of climbers who were having comunication problems. The leader was thinking that he could rapp down while his belayer had mistaken "below" for "belay" and thought that the leader was now off belay. The leader started to rapp down... fell... hit his head on the branch of a tree, which flipped his body right side up. He landed on his feet after falling like 60 feet (?) and broke everything... but he lived
just thought that yelling "below" would cause more problems but apparently not.
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altelis
Mar 17, 2005, 4:12 PM
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all my climbing partners in scotland, england, and s. africa all used "safe" to indicate they were off belay at the end of their pitch, and "climb" or "climb when ready" to indicate the second was on belay, and "below" to indicate something was hurtling through space toward the unsuspecting knuckle heads below..... as you can see, there is nothing for below to be confused with cause nobody used "belay" as a command.....
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