In reply to UKC Gear:
Sooo... I love the info in that review, loads of it! Big thumbs up, can't stress that enough... but i'm suprised you didn't have that little madrock thing in there cause that feels pretty functional and light. (sorry i don't know what it's called)
I just have one question... why can't you call a gri gri auto locking? cause honestly... it is. Don't most of the problems with people f*cking up with gri gri's come from when there's a human touching one of them instead of letting the mechanism do it's thing? hence the over pull fail safe's in industrial equipment.
Where as the mammut thing I think (I'm that sure) is an assisted braker... well that's how it feels to me when i use it. Although maybe that is just because it looks like a device i need to keep my hand on. And maybe the click-up is an assisted breaker because it doesn't lock if someone falls while the belayer is paying out slack (doing the funny twisty payout movement), even if you pull the rope into the lock off postion after, it doesn't stop... my friend found out the hard way (yes belayer had lots of experience, blah blah blah).
Don't we have auto locking devices and assisted breaking devices and if the word litigation didn't exist we could all be passed on the information we require to understand the difference. Come on! Tuck your skirt in strap that gri gri on, get your mate up the wall, let go of everything, 'ave a big old lob and you'll all be fine. Dunno about the rest of 'em, i'd probably hold on... but i don't know... cause no one can every really tell me the real truth.