In reply to climbwhenready:
> Of course you can belay with a munter hitch, the odd thing is teaching it to the exclusion of everything else. Where, in this case, "everything else" is what everyone else is doing (see the OP).
My comment was that it's _not_ actually odd to teach it to the exclusion of everything else. It's fairly common to teach beginners to operate a Munter, although this usually happens on "taster" courses (where you'll teach it as "bell-ringing", to involve other people) as opposed to more development focused courses. This was covered during my SPA training course too.
Post edited at 15:24