[snowwrestler]

You shouldn’t be getting downvoted, this is sometimes true. Most often what happens is a junior staff member is overly rigid in applying what they were taught.

I once almost failed a belay test because I did not know that gym’s particular trick for “counting strands” to prove the figure 8 was tied correctly. I just know what a correct knot looks like after decades of tying them. Ultimately I asked them to check with a manager, who passed me.

That said, I’ve also seen experienced climbers with terrible belay technique; catching them with a modern test would seem like a good thing to me.

[dilyevsky]

Had a young-ish gym employee berate me for not holding the brake strand with TWO hands when catching the leader recently… clearly against manufacturer instructions